Conservation of the environment

Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation.

This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate.

Savannah habitats comprise an ecologically important, but ultimately fragile, ecosystem.

Voices for the Watershed is a unique look at the singular and ecologically inter-connected region of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence watershed, including the headwater and upland regions.

In einer Zeit, in der das Wohl unserer Haustiere immer mehr in den Fokus rückt, bietet Markus Vogels Buch "Ganzheitliche Therapien für vierbeinige Freunde" einen fundierten Einblick in die Welt der Alternativmedizin für Tiere.

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves.

People are key elements of wild places.

With breath-catching insight and enveloping compassion, Sunaura Taylor shares a secret of epochal urgency: people living with injury and impairment have much to teach about how to survive, and perhaps even thrive, on an injured and impaired planet.

Blessings on Uncle Sams soldiers!

Through biographical examinations of some of the key figures in the debate on conservation, this book seeks to explore a range of subjects, such as the evolution of the conservation movement, its implications for policy-makers, and how it impacts the daily lives of people everywhere.

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.

Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality.

Dieses Buch ist aus einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung über die Physik der Atmosphäre im Rahmen des Faches Umweltphysik and der Universität Heidelberg hervorgegangen.

In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests.

A unique global review of high mountain bird ecology, conservation, knowledge gaps, and research priorities for their persistence.

In this volume 19 leading experts offer a timely and coherent overview of the fundamental principles of ecosystem science.

This colourful textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity.

Sea otters and polar bears are carnivorous marine mammals that still resemble their terrestrial ancestors.

This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.

Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation.

Decades of isolation from tourism and development have left Cuba's coral reefs among the most pristine in the world, an ';exceptionalism' that stands in stark contrast to the island nation's poverty and political situation.

Learned and fixed behaviors underlie many of the patterns we observe in songbirds.

Presented here for the first time and for meditation and emulation are the words and work of many environmental apostles.

Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo, hunted mercilessly for its pelt, and hostage to profiteering schemes once in captivity, the panda is on the brink of extinction.

This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation in Mexico.

Student-focused, robust teaching package, with a strong illustration programme, now including references to software and databases and two new chapters.

The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma.

'Enthralling' Daily MailIn 1998, Francoise Malby-Anthony founded a game reserve with her late husband, dedicating their lives to the protection of these beautiful, troubled animals.

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people's lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable.

Decision Consequence Analysis (DCA) is a framework for improving the quality of decision results.

In 2015 the first edition of this book was published before the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention entered into force.

This book provides a richly interdisciplinary assessment of the thought and work of Bryan Norton, one of most innovative and influential environmental philosophers of the past thirty years.

Conceptions of 'sustainable cities' in the pluralistic and multireligious urban settlements of developing nations need to develop out of local cultural, religious and historical contexts to be inclusive and accurately respond to the needs of the poor, ethnic and religious minorities, and women.

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This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

A multi-disciplinary perspective on species conservation, from the biology of threatened island species to leadership of their recovery.

Investigations into the cultural significance of that most familiar and charismatic group of animals, bears.

Published in 1999, Creative Governance sets out to develop new ideas on the development of Fisheries in Europe.

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment.

Planting Churches and TreesEnvironmental Missions defines an emerging category in missions, one that takes seriously both the mandate to evangelize the world and the responsibility of caring for Gods good earth.

Offers a hopeful view of threatened species, grounded in history and scienceAddresses current conservation trends: wildlife corridors, prairie restoration, cultural restoration for the American Indian communityReturn of the Bison is the story of how this symbol of the American West was once almost lost to history and of the continuing journey to bring bison back from the brink.

Illustrates the power and utility of the synergy between population genetics and conservation biology in animal conservation.

Rooted and Rising is for everyone who worries about the climate crisis and seeks spiritual practices and perspectives to renew their capacity for compassionate, purposeful, and joyful action.

West Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic insight, and ecological detail.

Spätestens seit Jennifer Sieglar als Reporterin den UN-Klimagipfel besucht hat, ist ihr klar, dass sich etwas an unserem Konsumverhalten verändern muss.