Conservation of the environment

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a river of grass, most people considered the area worthless.

This practical and bold book unifies multiple aspects of plant conservation into a single coherent concept, linking theory and methodology.

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Nearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition presents a comprehensive revision and expansion of this trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook-from a single North American tome into a developing multivolume series covering inland water invertebrates of the world.

The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles.

Unique, global overview of the future effects of climate change and human impact on the world''s aquatic ecosystems.

Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action.

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

At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change.

Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana.

This book brings together a wide range of sampling methods for investigating different arthropod groups.

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

Forest fragmentation will inevitably continue over the coming years, especially in developing economies.

Getting the Climate Science Facts Right - discusses climate change science with reference to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.

In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.

In Green Equilibrium, Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems maintain a diversity of interdependent species, in particular the balance of predators and prey.

Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local.

This book relates one of the most representative species of Patagonian wildlife, the guanaco, to human societies across time, and explores how that relationship has changed over time due to different land uses and productive interests.

The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.

This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife.

The book covers the spread of conservation agriculture (CA) to regions including Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe and emerging CA destinations in Asia and Africa.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures.

A compact yet comprehensive guide to the birds of the West Indies.

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

This book consists of several chapters dealing with the issue of environmental preservation of protected areas from a variety of perspectives.

"e;This book is fierce love in motion.

Human-driven greenhouse emissions are increasing the velocity of climate change and the frequency and intensity of climate extremes far above historical levels.

Ceri's humorous but meaningful message accompanied by Ralph's sensational paintings will satisfy art-lovers and conservationists alike.

This book assesses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), examining both implementation and compliance.

This book gathers interdisciplinary reflections fromresearchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closerto education and learning.

Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations.

Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity.

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives.

Our current knowledge of marine organisms and the factors affecting their ecology, distribution and evolution has been revolutionised by the use, in the last 20 years, of molecular population genetics tools.

The authors warn governments, societies and humanity about the future of Amazonia.

"e;Oceanic Oases Under Threat,"e; is a comprehensive analysis of the impact of climate change on various regions, focusing mainly on the Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian Ocean areas.

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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves.

Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories.

The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort has been touted as the nation's premier environmental restoration program.

Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Mountaintop Removal critically examines the fierce conflicts over this violent and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining.

I first became interested in the methods of planning the sequence and timing of jobs on large-scale development projects, as a field officer involved in planning and implementing mechanised farming schemes in Uganda in the mid-sixties.

The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.

Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes-geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives.

Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf- ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests.

Maverick environmental writers William J.

The essential guide to identifying every species of bird you may see in this area, for both tourists and wildlife enthusiasts.

Ancient lessons for sustainable citizenshipAn ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference.