Environmental Conservation & Protection

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578703015Author Judy McCoy Carman M aFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Circle of CompassionPublisher Circle of CompassionWeight(grams) 152g

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is the best known and most controversial of international conservation treaties. Since it came into force 25 years ago, debate has raged over its most basic assumptions. CITES treats the...

These charismatic mammals, which include dogs, cats, hyenas, weasels, mongooses, seals, sea lions and bears, have always held special importance to humans throughout history and continue to do so today. In recent decades, the emergence of new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271430Author David E. VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross PublishingWeight(grams) 1675g

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Conservation biology relies not only on the general concepts, but on the specific methods, of population ecology to both understand and predict the viability of rare and endangered...

The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack -- concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry describe how...

The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially...

Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416727Author Lenore NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the Sun revolved around the Earth, arguing instead that the Earth revolved around the Sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking-to a new worldview. Eco-Economy discusses the...

Handbook of Recycling, Second Edition is an authoritative review of the current state of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today, and how they interact with one another. Fully updated to cover recent developments in the...

The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote sensing, using satellite and aerial imaging to measure and map the environment,...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

This is a book about ecology, environment, nature, and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It is easy-to-read, fun, and doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes, get one idea out...

This is a book about ecology, environment, nature, and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It is easy-to-read, fun, and doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes, get one idea out...

This book looks at using forestry and several other innovative measures to facilitate environmental sustainability, covering an important selection of research that focuses on scientific applications and trends. Chapters discuss such diverse topics as...

In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949603Author Liz CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226817569Author Alison RichardFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and...

Biology and Physiology of Freshwater Neotropical Fish is the all-inclusive guide to fish species prevalent in the neotropical realm. It provides the most updated systematics, classification, anatomical, behavioral, genetic, and functioning systems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396402Author Daniel Klem JrFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada

Back from the Brink is an antidote to a world that seems full of stories of wildlife doom and gloom. Amongst all the loss of habitat and the animals and plants that are in spiraling decline, it's easy to forget that there are a huge number of positive...

Back from the Brink is an antidote to a world that seems full of stories of wildlife doom and gloom. Amongst all the loss of habitat and the animals and plants that are in spiraling decline, it's easy to forget that there are a huge number of positive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940573394Author Paul Spencer SochaczewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Explorer's Eye PressPublisher Explorer's Eye PressWeight(grams)...

Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover 'where we are' as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. "LifePlace" is a provocative...

Ecologies of the Heart offers a highly readable new look at the range of approaches we use in thinking about environmental management. In answering the questions of why people hold beliefs about the environment that are `counterfactual' - against the...

Key features:Captures the historic context and recent developments in science and policy arenas that address the potential for coastal wetlands to be considered as significant contributors to carbon sequestrationLinks multiple levels of science...

Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how...

Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how...

An essential guide for writers on how to record and use rich detail to enliven their work.The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by peculiar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866742Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 326g

From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos-to protect nature from the march of human development. But we have to face the...

Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea-more like a soup than a floating garbage dump...

After winning the Global Reuters IUCN media award for excellence in environmental reporting, Alanna Mitchell launches herself on an odyssey that takes her around the world, zeroing in on it's environmental hotspots. Travelling from Madagascar to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957436244Author Bill LiaoFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Ideos Publications LtdPublisher Ideos Publications LtdWeight(grams) 784g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807078242Author Alex ShoumatoffFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm *...

'Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour.' Greta ThunbergOur planet is in danger. Sea levels are rising, natural habitats are being destroyed and the global temperature is rising. There is some good news though: we can...

Since the early twentieth century, nations around the world have set aside protected areas for tourism, recreation, scenery, wildlife, and habitat conservation. In Russia, biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing...