Conservation of the environment

This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world.

This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia's rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.

This work presents the state of the art of aquatic and semi-aquatic ecological restoration projects in The Netherlands.

In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E.

Global climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today.

In this remarkable, landmark publication, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions.

The environmental studies about natural resource issues are often studied as conflicts; this book is carefully designed to expound on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained.

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles.

Historic structures need to be restored in line with international guidance and charters developed by architects and archaeologists, but technical understanding of structural engineering and materials is crucial, particularly with respect to response to earthquake loading.

This practical handbook of reptile field ecology and conservation brings together a distinguished, international group of reptile researchers to provide a state-of-the-art review of the many new and exciting techniques used to study reptiles.

Phosphorus is essential to the production of our food, and it also triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands.

In Anima, Kapka Kassabova introduces us to the "e;pastiri"e; people-the shepherds struggling to hold on to an ancient way of life in which humans and animals exist in profound interdependence.

Invasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence.

Marine Animal Forests (MAFs) are spread all over the world.

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism.

Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations.

Retrouver l’art dans la logique de la nature, avec toutes ses épaisseurs, c’est le propre de l’Art contemporain qui a détruit les formes de médiation entre l’acte créatif et l’objet naturel, pour retrouver la notion de Vie dans l’œuvre et rejoindre l’acte vital.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world’s most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine.

To the casual observer Ontario appears as an immense territory, stretching from west of the Great Lakes to the St.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

The International Conference (EMTES 2022) is oriented to include the themes like Water Quality Management, Advanced Water Treatment, Advanced Wastewater Treatment, Assessment and Control of Air Pollution, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Prevention of Groundwater Contamination, Wetland Management/Phyto-remediation, Case studies in Industrial Pollution Control, Liquid waste management, recent advancement in engineering, technology and management for optimization of environmental issues, application of IOT and IT in remedial measure of Environment and sustainability, Health issues and safety.

On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island.

A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservationFifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis.

This book presents various aspects of agroforestry research and development, as well as the latest trends in degraded landscape management.

Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier.

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

'After Mark Cocker s glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

The proposed book mainly sorts out emerging and burning issues faced day to day by municipal and industrial wastewater treatments.

This is an ecology textbook focused on key principles that underpin research and management at the landscape scale.

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia.

This book provides students with the skills to develop their own models for application in conservation biology and wildlife management.

An insight into the booming industry of insect leisure and tourism, using case studies and examples from around the world.

By many measures, Earth's ecosystems are stressed.

From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis.

Entanglements explores the clash of cultures and personalities among fishermen, scientists, and whale advocates struggling to save both the endangered North Atlantic right whale and the livelihoods of thousands of Atlantic coastal families.

This is the ninth volume of ten in the The Natural History of the Crustacea Series.

Temporary waters are found throughout the world, and include intermittent streams and ponds, episodic rain puddles, seasonal limestone lakes, the water-retaining structures of plants, such as bromeliads and pitcher plants, and a variety of man-made container habitats.

Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes.

Decapod crustaceans are a particularly important animal group in a variety of aquatic environments, such as freshwater, estuaries, and oceans.

Where water meets land, life abounds.

The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change.

The migration and settlement of 11 million unauthorized immigrants is among the leading political challenges facing the United States today.

Planting for Pollinators is an easy-to-use gardening guide to help you encourage different types of insect pollinators into your garden.

On May 25,1978, the Commission on Toxicology ofthe Division of Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established its Subcommittee on Environmental and Occupational Toxicology of Cadmium following aseries of Commission meetings in Kristiansand, Norway.

The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily.