Conservation of the environment

Transportation of species to areas outside their native ranges has been a feature of human culture for millennia.

While almost every aspect of society-nature interactions can be treated as an environmental security issue, the threats to human societies originating from inadequate freshwater management constitute one of the most wi- spread and pressing problems.

A series of original papers and reviews dealing with the peculiarities of island insects and their conservation in many parts of the world.

In this comprehensive history of Erdenheim Farm, On the Waters of the Wissahickon separates the facts from the multitude of fictions, revealing the complex and intriguing history behind this important agricultural center along the Wissahickon Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Sturgeons are considered "e;living fossils"e;, sharing many morphological and biological features with ancestral fish.

Forestry has been witness to some dramatic changes in recent years, with several Western countries now moving away from the traditional model of regarding forests merely as sources of wood.

Biological invasions by alien (non-native) species are widely recognized as a significant component of human-caused global environmental change and the second most important cause of biodiversity decline.

Life began in the sea, and even today most of the deep diversity of the planet is marine.

The book contains the contributions at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Soil Chemical Pollution, Risk Assessment, Remediation and Security, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, May 23-26, 2007.

Amazonia is never quite what it seems.

As in the terrestrial environment, most data collection from freshwater habitats to date falls into the survey, surveillance or research categories.

Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration - the pattern - of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter and nutrients.

Most of the diadromous fish of the world have decreased in distribution and abundance since the beginning of the twentieth century.

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "e;Changing Forests"e; explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference "e;Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics"e; (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004.

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The assessment of land use and land cover is an important activity for cont- porary land management.

Mike Alexander's Management Planning for Nature Conservation brings a new dimension to the modern literature on conservation management.

In the last four decades, Singapore's urban development has gradually received an international reputation.

Building forth upon recent developments in democracy theory that have identified multiple forms of legitimacy, this volume observes a EU-wide shift from output legitimacy to input and throughput legitimacy.

This book brings together a selection of original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address biodiversity and conservation in Europe.

This book represents the outcome of a symposium held in Indianapolis, Indiana on 28-30 October 2005.

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

Coastal habitats provide the link between the land and the sea.

The importance of habitat conservation for the protection of birds has become widely acknowledged and accepted by natural resource managers and the general public.

Since the last century of ecological history, landscape ecologists have played a role in solving many hot issues linking development and conservation of landscape.

All over the world, sustainable river basin management is a leading principle of policy plans and legal instruments for water management (e.

The Antarctic provides a suite of scenarios useful for investigating the range of climate change effects on terrestrial and limnetic biota.

Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural dispersal, as well as for shipping-mediated transport.

The conservation threat represented by invasive species is well-known, but the scientific opportunities are underappreciated.

Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics.

This volume presents selected contributions given to the 38th European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2003.

The author is to be congratulated on her efforts and perseverance in undertaking this research, and Springer for making the material available in this book format.

Primarily, the book draws together a series of important case studies to provide a comprehensive review and synthesis of the most recent concepts, theories and methods in scaling and uncertainty analysis.

Biological invasions are a global problem whose local impact can be of great magnitude.

Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of specialty areas of forestry, including inventory, remote sensing, information management, modelling and visualization, biometrics, forest and harvest planning, bioeconomics and marketing, and decision science for management.

Economic dimensions have been somewhat neglected in research on nature policy and management of marine ecosystem exploitation.

Climate change, non-sustainable land management and the insufficient participation of the local population leads to land degradation problems in parts of the Altai Region, which includes China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the Russian Federation.

We began this book with a simple goal- to assemble a collection of readings for an undergraduate interdisciplinary course taught by one of us (AR) at Macalester College.

Monitoring Nature Conservation in Cultural Habitats presents monitoring as an integral component of responsible conservation management and as a catalyst for decision making.

This book calls the attention of the scientific community, government organizations and non-government agencies, and the general public, to arguably one of the most important and complex of the world's tropical rainforest regions - the greater Panama Canal Watershed.

As urban areas keep growing, water infrastructure ages, and the requirements on environmental protection become more rigorous, there is a continual need for upgrading water pollution control facilities and restoring degraded urban waters.

This book contains a selection of papers from the International Military Geology and Geography Conference, held at the U.

Cultural landscapes are created by people, and used by people, but still decidedly rich in biodiversity, and in harmony with nature.

The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop, "e;Effective Scientific Communication Related to Recent Challenges and Activities in the Military Sector,"e; was the result of close collaboration between defense and environmental officials in the United States and the Slovak Republic.

Plant geographical description of the area, syntaxonomy, spatial patterns, floristic richness, structure of plant communities in relation to soil properties and herbivore influence were described for a mountain region that is difficult to access.

How the science of ecology is changing to meet the daunting challenges of environmental sustainabilityOur species has transitioned from being one among millions on Earth to the species that is single-handedly transforming the entire planet to suit its own needs.

Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping Sparrowhawk to the breathtaking White-tailed Eagle.

What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth?