Conservation of the environment

Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management.

The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere, Second Edition examines the global carbon cycle and energy balance of the biosphere, following carbon and energy through increasingly complex levels of metabolism-from cells to ecosystems.

Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats.

The author, experienced in industry and academia, presents a set of 15 recent review essays which identify and examine critical current issues of environmental management.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers.

An accessible and comprehensive guide to all things acoustic bat detection.

Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth century, there is an urgent need to understand what little unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management and restoration of existing sites, as well as re-creating future grassland habitats.

This title was first published in 2001.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book.

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic inequality, and rapid deforestation.

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.

The chapters making up this volume are based on the presentations given by their authors at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) , also entitled "e;The Microbiology of Atmospheric Trace Gases: Sources, Sinks and Global Change Processes"e;, held between 13-18 May 1995 at II Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Tuscany, Italy.

This book gives an overview of various aspects of blue carbon dynamics from each country bordering the Indian Ocean.

This contributed volume focuses on the Neotropical region, and explores the environmental, ecological and socio-economic components that facilitate the emergence of zoonotic diseases.

Contributors include Elisabeth Abergel (Glendon College), Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley (University of Northern British Columbia and University of Victoria), Marie Battiste (University of Saskatchewan), Robin Cavanagh (York University), Vanaja Dhruvarajan (University of Winnipeg), Margrit Eichler (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto), Leesa Fawcett (York University), Ursula M.

Things have changed.

Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water.

Challenges conservationists to rethink protecting the natural world; making political strategies central to increase support and influence.

In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M.

'A superb account of the ecology and behaviour of two declining bird species whose lives are intimately shaped by their woodland habitats.

On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles.

To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earths interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults.

Floodplainsprovides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions.

Scientists have long been looking for alternative methods for the cleaning of historical and cultural museum objects as conventional methods often fail to completely remove surface films, leaving contamination and surface residues behind.

An exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy that “enriches our understanding of how to care for our world” (Alan Jacobs, author of Breaking Bread with the Dead).

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

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs.

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation.

This cutting-edge title is one of the first devoted entirely to the issue of carbofuran and wildlife mortality.

For seventy years, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in wildflowers, native plants, ecology, or conservation in the state.

As a companion to books on project-management theory, this book illustrates, in a down-to-earth, comprehensive style, how to put that theory into practice.

Combining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.

This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands.

Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.

This book presents an overview of current knowledge about social-ecological systems (SESs), a productive new field dedicated to understanding the relationships between human society and nature.

"e;This is a landmark not only of Appalachian history but of southern economic and environmental history as well.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wildlife Society's Publication Awards First Honorable Mention for the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award U.

Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation.

Protected areas (PAs) contain biodiversity and ecosystems of high conservation value.

As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis.

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century.

A groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter species loss.

A thriving life and livable future for our planet starts with you.

Attempts to manage natural resources through collaboration rather than competition, by agreements rather than conflict, have become the touchstone for many who see these efforts as the harbinger of global sustainable development.