Conservation of the environment

Cockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds.

Geotourism is a new, emerging scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth science in the study of natural and human tourism resources.

This volume offers extensive information on insect life in dying and dead wood.

This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa''s national parks during the twentieth century.

Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia.

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective.

The second volume of this book series synthesizes nomenclature, systematics, and descriptions of North American mammal species.

Provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.

An academic textbook and practical guide to farm conservation, based on the authors'' extensive teaching experience.

Public and media interest in the climate change issue has increased exponentially in recent years.

This volume gathers case studies on plant diversity from selected, representative mountain systems of Italy (Mediterranean and temperate zones), while also addressing the biodiversity of avian fauna.

Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it.

Through a contemporary Gothic lens, the book explores theatre theories, processes and practices that explore; the impacts of continuing drought and natural disaster, the conflicts concerning resource extraction and mining and current political debates focussed on climate change denial.

Die "Erinnerungen an Pioniere des Schweizerischen Nationalparks" sind ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks, insbesondere zu dessen Forschungsgeschichte.

Covering the full spectrum of methodology, the timely and indispensible Research Methods for Environmental surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behaviour and well-being in relation to the physical environment.

Die Erweiterung der menschlichen Möglichkeiten durch die Nutzung technischer Hilfsmittel stand am Anfang menschlicher Zivilisation.

It is well known that infrastructure development projects can boost the economy and reduce the cost of trade in both developing and developed economies, however, infrastructure projects can also cause biodiversity loss.

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions.

When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause-battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice.

Forestry professors used to remind students that, whereas physicians bury their mistakes, foresters die before theirs are noticed.

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species.

Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon.

Now forty years old, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) remains a landmark act in conservation and one of the world's most comprehensive laws designed to prevent species extinctions and support recovery efforts for imperiled species.

This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.

Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change.

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination.

This book brings a unique perspective to animal movement studies because all cases came from tropical environments where the great diversity, either biological and structurally (trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes), presents the animal with several options to fulfill its live requirements.

This title was first published in 2001.

The climate crisis requires that we drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions across all sectors of society.

Caterpillars are excellent model organisms for understanding how multiple selective forces shape the ecology and evolution of insects, and organisms in general.

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City.

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

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it.

Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur s'est fixé comme objectif d'explorer les rapports théoriques et philosophiques étroits existant entre André Gorz (1923-2007), l'ami de Sartre et fondateur de l'écologie politique, et Ivan Illich, fondateur du Centre Interculturel de Documentation (CIDOC, Mexique), dont les analyses critiques de la société industrielle, de l'école et de l'hôpital,  ainsi que sa théorie de la convivialité, ont exercé une forte influence sur la pensée gorzienne d'abord marquée par l'existentialisme sartrien.

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.

This title was first published in 2000: The noble goals embodied in the Endangered Species Act are colliding with financial and social realities.

This book, part of the series Cave and Karst Systems of the World, begins with a review of the interaction between people and caves in Australia (including conservation), followed by descriptions of the spectacular cave diving sites, before comprehensively covering all the major carbonate and noncarbonate karst areas, subdivided by rock type and region, and including the origin of the caves.

Mycologists have been searching for a better system of classification of Fungi Imperfecti than that based on mature morphology.

This book describes the myriad components of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region.

Forest mensuration is one of the most fundamental disciplines within forest and related sciences.