Conservation of the environment

A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter.

Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

The fundamental ecological, cultural and economic roles of insects give them central importance in functioning of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems worldwide.

The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast-its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival.

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This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa.

In recent years, pollination has become a very important research trend, and wild bees in particular play a key role in the dynamics of plant pollination.

The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast-its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.

The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life.

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After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont.

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind.

Quoting contemporary accounts from hunters, missionaries and traders from the early nineteenth century onwards, this book illustrates the ecology of the country as it was emphasizing its rich large mammal fauna, its decline from increasing aridity of the country, it destruction by hunters, by disease, and most importantly, destruction of its vast herds, notably of wildebeest, due to the developing beef export economy and the erection of veterinary cordon fences depriving the large game of migration routes in times of drought.

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River.

Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability.

After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont.

This book introduces community science (or citizen science) projects in Japan with a focus on ecology.

The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.

Face à la crise écologique mondiale, l’Afrique, autrefois perçue comme un éden écologique, adopte désormais un modèle de développement écodestructeur, marquant un recul de ses pratiques éco-communautaires.

At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet.

For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance.

In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining.

Im Rahmen eines vom BMBF geförderten Verbundprojekts wurde die Errichtung und Integration von Großwärmespeichern mit mehreren Zehntausend Kubikmeter zur saisonalen Speicherung und Bereitstellung von Wärme im Quartiersmaßstab untersucht.

This book is the first comprehensive reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all the world's deer species.

Meet the rare, obscure and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth.

Meet the rare, obscure and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).