Conservation of the environment

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world.

This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms, are applied to the marine environment.

Carrion, or dead animal matter, is an inherent component of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, and is exploited by a wide diversity of organisms from different trophic levels, including microbes, arthropods and vertebrates.

This book examines the role and practical dynamics of governmental environmental law enforcement agencies and individuals who combat environmental crime.

A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death.

Planning and management for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development.

This title was originally published in 1948.

Winner of the National Book Award“What an elegant book this is, starting with that most elegant of creatures, the Belon oyster.

Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year.

Provides a global analysis of policies to address deforestation, an important driver of climate change.

After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada.

This book explores and outlines the reference theoretical basis of ecological networks within the international debate, focusing on how protected areas should no longer be considered as the sum of different components but rather as a network.

It was a familiar sight at Yellowstone National Park: traffic backed up for miles as visitors fed bears from their cars.

This book owes a great deal to the outstanding universal value of the natural heritage of Hubei Shennongjia, which offers an outstanding example of the ongoing ecological processes occurring in the development of intact subtropical mixed broad-leaved evergreen and deciduous forests in the northern hemisphere.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world.

Hier liegt das erste zusammenfassende Buch zu den Auswirkungen von Luftverschmutzung und Klimaänderung auf die Biosphäre vor.

One cubic mile of oil (CMO) corresponds very closely to the world's current total annual consumption of crude oil.

Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change.

How are different concepts of nature and time embedded into human practices of landscape and environmental management?

This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.

Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse to conserve’ in the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland.

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.

How the climate crisis changed one woman's life: “Stunningly beautiful .

Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through toxic tours in which a guide brings participants - students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, and foreign tourists - to visit contaminated sites.

As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing pressure.

Unpacks humanness and how it shapes our interactions with the environment, helping readers to make responsible decisions about the future.

Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas.

The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center.

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs.

Since the early twentieth century, nations around the world have set aside protected areas for tourism, recreation, scenery, wildlife, and habitat conservation.

This book is the story of the natural history of Chagos Archipelago, and of the efforts of many to get it recognized as an important and protected wildlife reserve.

Paleobiologist Anthony D.

Easy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet.

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops.

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

Historically, the conservation of forests and wildlife has focused on the creation of national parks and reserves.

Global wetlands exhibit significant differences in both hydrology and species composition and range from moss-dominated arctic peatlands to seasonally-flooded tropical floodplains.

This succinct book gives an intimate view of the day-to-day functioning of a remarkable river that has figured prominently in history and culture-the Hudson, a main artery connecting New York, America, and the world.

Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in postWorld War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a vision of economic growth that welcomed nuclear energy both for the generation of electricity and for other peaceful and industrial uses.

Those who control water, hold power.

Plant classifications are based on morphological characters and it is difficult, particularly in small plants and grasses, to identify these below generic level on the basis of these characters using a dissecting microscope.

A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinctionMost of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady.

The most up-to-date and comprehensive handbook to the region's mammals, illustrated with exceptional photography.

Seit der Veröffentlichung der zweiten Fassung der Roten Liste gefährdeter Biotoptypen hat sich die Gefährdungssituation bei vielen Biotoptypen verändert.