Conservation of the environment

Nanotechnology, clean technology, and geoengineering span the scale of human ingenuity, from the imperceptibly small to the unimaginably large.

An understanding of ecology is an important requirement of a wide range of academic areas, including biology, zoology and environmental science.

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years' rotations in forestry.

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year.

Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment.

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of contemporary research on key topics in the field, as well as presenting the history of how the economic theory of fisheries exploitation has developed.

Sudbury, Ontario is one of the world's most polluted areas.

In the winter of 199697, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison.

Natural resource governance is critical for linking poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource use.

Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake's vast bird populations.

Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction.

During the past 50 years, coastal Louisiana has suffered catastrophic land loss due to both natural and human causes.

Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms.

In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: "e;An outstanding and deeply passionate book.

First published in 1999, this volume features contributors specialising in urban planning and examines the challenges of environmental planning in urban areas, focusing on policy, management, organisation and policy.

Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation.

Minerals are part of virtually every product we use.

Integrates process and content of core areas of ecology using an engaging narrative, fascinating case studies, and stunning images throughout.

Focuses on how the theories underlying sustainability can be translated into practice and the challenges involved in achieving this.

The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history.

This book is aimed at conservation and development practitioners who need to learn and use R in a part-time professional context.

Der Klimawandel ist einer der Hauptgründe für den prognostizierten weiterenRückgang der weltweiten Biodiversität.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

How can we help and support people to face climate change?

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska.

As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia?

Simplify the enormous array of U.

How should a national park be managed?

This series presents studies that have used the paradigm of landscape ecology.

Issues In Agroecology - Present Status and Future Prospectus not only reviews aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values.

The dependence of present farming on artificial input of "e;chemical fertilizers"e; has caused numerous ecological tribulations associated with global warming and soil contamination.

A detailed description and analysis of European nature conservation and its achievements, focussing on the EU and last forty years.

In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan's empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife populations and communities in the wake of unprecedented habitat changes.

This book addresses paradigm shifts in water policy and governance, and examines the role of civil society organizations in influencing public policy, while focusing on social equity and democratic participation.

Doce años han pasado desde que la primera edición de esta obra fue publicada.

Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history.

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario.

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South.

This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings across the globe.

"e;Canada is one of the most beautiful, varied, and inspiring natural environments on earth.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as the most critical issue of the modern era.

The Alsea Logging and Aquatic Resources Study, commissioned by the Oregon Legislature in 1959, marked the beginning of four decades of research in the Pacific Northwest devoted to understanding the impacts of forest practices on water quality, water quantity, aquatic habitat, and aquatic organism popu- tions.

A not-so-quiet revolution seems to be occurring in wealthy capitalist societies - supermarkets selling 'guilt free' Fairtrade products; lifestyle TV gurus exhorting us to eat less, buy local and go green; neighbourhood action groups bent on 'swopping not shopping'.