Conservation of the environment

Human beings have a long historical relationship with the coast.

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies.

Rhodolith beds form biogenic reefs, oases of high biodiversity in sedimentary seabed environments.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

The book is the only technical volume that explains how equivalency analysis methods mentioned in Annex II of the European Environmental Liability Directive should be implemented.

JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY BOOKA scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earths wildest and most endangered placesGreenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure trove of information on Earths early history embedded in its pristine landscape.

Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes.

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts.

Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change affecting marine social and ecological systems around the world.

Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.

This book provides a foundation for modern applied ecology.

'Jeff Martin explores the Tawny Owl's natural history in the greatest detail.

How the dirt below our feet can save us from extinction.

This book synthesises fifty years of vegetation dynamics using innovative analyses and an organized framework to integrate perspectives on succession.

An examination of how studying marine predators can identify changes in and help manage marine ecosystems.

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals.

Originally published in 1992 Economics for the Wilds argues that an economics that properly values the resources of the wilds offers the best long-term security for their future.

Though life on earth is the history of dynamic interactions between living things and their surroundings, certain powerful groups would have us believe that nature exists only for our convenience.

Avec le réchauffement climatique quatre fois plus important aux pôles que sur le reste de la planète, les eaux polaires arctiques sont de plus en plus accessibles au trafic maritime et aux ressources d’hydrocarbures jugées considérables, et ce sur de plus en plus longues périodes estivales.

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes.

This book integrates the different prospective, scientific and practical experience of researchers as well as beneficiaries and stakeholders in the field of forest conservation in Southeast Europe.

`Why life?

Shifts the conversation from abstract ';global warming' to the deeply human impacts of heatand how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse.

In light of recent evidence on the relationship of ozone to mortality and questions about its implications for benefit analysis, the Environmental Protection Agency asked the National Research Council to establish a committee of experts to evaluate independently the contributions of recent epidemiologic studies to understanding the size of the ozone-mortality effect in the context of benefit analysis.

This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and desertification problems.

This book offers a new ecosystemic approach to the understanding of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems.

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention.

A key goal of fisheries management is to regulate extractive pressure on a resource so as to ensure social, economic and ecological sustainability.

The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary beesWhile social bees such as honey bees and bumble bees are familiar to most people, they comprise less than 10 percent of all bee species in the world.

Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.

`Europe is sometimes credited with a `polis,' but not a `demos'.

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management.

Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary.

A biostatistics textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate students, covering analyses used by biologists and now including R code.

This book discusses the effects of the indenture system on Indians across the colonies, but more specifically Fiji.

This book relates one of the most representative species of Patagonian wildlife, the guanaco, to human societies across time, and explores how that relationship has changed over time due to different land uses and productive interests.

Originally published in 1975, Man and Wildlife traces the evolution of man from pre-hominid ancestors, and his influence in modifying the environment and its flora and fauna as technical knowledge grew.

This fifth volume in the Ecology and Ethics series integrates key concepts of the previous four volumes by addressing biocultural conservation through novel educational methods.

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This book is about the varied range of emerging applications using specially trained detection dogs to monitor and protect aquatic ecosystems, animals, plants and related resources.

This book outlines a new paradigm, Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production (SICP), which aims to produce more from the same area of land by increasing efficiency, reducing waste, conserving resources, reducing negative impacts on the environment and enhancing the provision of ecosystem services.

This book discusses how tourism between neighboring countries like Poland and Germany is hindered despite the Schengen Treaty.

Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions.