Conservation of the environment

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk.

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border.

Research Needs in Subsurface Science provides an overview of the subsurface contamination problems across the DOE complex and shows by examples from the six largest DOE sites (Hanford Site, Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Nevada Test Site, Oak Ridge Reservation, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, and Savannah River Site) how advances in scientific and engineering knowledge can improve the effectiveness of the cleanup effort.

Presents new evidence from more than twenty countries on the role of ecosystems in supporting the livelihoods of the poor.

Located in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness ("e;GNH"e;) that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals.

Doug Cocks looks at the predictions of serious futurologists for what lies ahead of us all, looking as far into the future as the next glacial age.

A comprehensive, full-colour work providing insights into recent advances in the ecological understanding of ladybirds.

Explores key issues in biocultural diversity, examining species and sites considered to be sacred and their implications for conservation.

An easy-to-follow gardening guide to help you encourage different types of wildlife into your garden.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

Water use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors.

David Toke adapts the green critique of the external costs of economic growth to examine the links between stress, social division and excessive competition that are associated with the neo-liberal discourse.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

This work examines the relevance of traditional Islamic thought and practices for a lasting solution to the current environmental crisis.

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'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed' - Al Gore, New York Times

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No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions.

A multidisciplinary review of salt marshes, describing how they function and respond to external pressures such as sea-level rise.

Originally published in 1994, Paradise Lost?

Protected areas, such as nature reserves, national parks and marine conservation areas, are the main tool of nature conservation policies and are increasing on a worldwide scale.

A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth.

An ambitious and beautifully illustrated account of the evolution and biology of insects.

The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions.

 This book presents an ethnographic study of environmental Christian networks involved in the climate and transition towns movements.

Mangrove ecosystems are typical formations found in coastal deposits of mud and silt throughout the tropics and some distance into the subtropical latitudes.

Titel: Grüne Oasen in der Stadt: Die transformative Kraft von Dach- und FassadenbegrünungBeschreibung:Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Dach- und Fassadenbegrünung und erfahren Sie, wie grüne Oasen in der Stadt die Lebensqualität verbessern, die Umwelt schützen und architektonische Innovationen vorantreiben.

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.

Examines the problem of poaching of elephants for ivory and looks into the factors that propagate it.

Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory.

Die nordamerikanischen Büffelherden durchstreiften einst in riesigen Zahlen die weiten Prärien und prägten das Ökosystem sowie das Leben der indigenen Völker über Jahrtausende.

Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming.

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water.

This book offers a comprehensive review devoted exclusively to slate as dimension stone.

The book presents a review of research and pilot-scale efforts undertaken by scientists all over the world towards utilization of solar energy for environmental remediation.

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges.

In Naturschutzgebieten geschieht vieles, das auf den ersten Blick widersprüchlich ist.

Conservation and biodiversity of protists The conservation of biodiversity is not just an issue of plants and vertebrates.

Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments.

Life histories can be defined as the means by which individuals (or more precisely genotypes) vary their age- or stage-specific expenditures of reproductive effort in response to genetic, phenotypic, and environmental correlates of survival and fecundity.

In the preface to the softcover edition of this book in 1989, we stated: Since the publication of the first edition of this book, landscape ecology has made great strides.

The Concept of Milieu in Environmental Ethics discusses how we can come together to address current environmental problems at the planetary level, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, transborder pollution and desertification.

Those who control water, hold power.

'Based on many years of personal research, and a thorough knowledge of the European literature, the authors provide an eminently readable account of the biology of the Common Buzzard.

This comprehensive account of California's numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the states history and carries a sobering message about our short disaster memories.

Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests.

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.