Environmental Conservation & Protection

How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance. Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We...

How do we combine the areas of intersection between science and indigenous knowledge, but without losing the totality of both? This book's objective is to consider how Indigenous populations have lived and managed the landscape. Specifically, how their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807020074Author Christopher ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The earth's biodiversity currently faces an extinction crisis that is unprecedented. Conservationists attempt to intervene in the extinction process either locally by protecting or restoring important species and habitats, or at national and...

The earth's biodiversity currently faces an extinction crisis that is unprecedented. Conservationists attempt to intervene in the extinction process either locally by protecting or restoring important species and habitats, or at national and...

The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever...

Phylogeny is a potentially powerful tool for conserving biodiversity. This book explores how it can be used to tackle questions of great practical importance and urgency for conservation. Using case studies from many different taxa and regions of the...

What are the challenges involved in protecting biodiversity in tropical terrestrial and coastal ecosystems? What practical lessons can be learned from conservation projects? And what are the procedures and attitudes of governments, NGOs, donor agencies,...

This 1977 book analyses and describes the range of variation in the wild flora and fauna of Britain and identifies important sites that exemplify this rich heritage. These key sites were chosen to represent all the main types of natural and semi-natural...

The River Scene is a uniquely stimulating guide to the appreciation and preservation of rivers. In this highly illustrated account, Sylvia Haslam presents a new scheme for the evaluation of river quality which can be used by a wide range of users, from...

While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures...

The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts-poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visions- illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement...

In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history...

Over the course of two centuries, Americans have tried to tame the Missouri River. First explored by Lewis and Clark, this once-free-flowing river has in modern times been dammed, dredged, and channelized until it now barely resembles its former self...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997392050Author Ben EmoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seapoint BooksPublisher Seapoint BooksWeight(grams) 544g

In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991622283Author Daniel HudonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Pen & AnvilPublisher Pen & AnvilWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999557273Author Napier SheltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint New Academia Publishing/VellumPublisher New Academia Publishing/VellumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999426388Author Ding YuhuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint 1 Plus Publishing & ConsultingPublisher 1 Plus Publishing &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369381156Author Tom SzakyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780230572515Author Dale SouthertonFormat HardbackImprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

Although many environmental policy issues remain deadlocked for decades with little movement, sometimes breakthroughs occur abruptly. Why do deadlocks persist? Why do major policy shifts occur infrequently? Is it possible to judge when policies are ripe...

The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. A "foundation...

How we see the world - our attitudes and assumptions about it - profoundly affects the way we deal with it. This book is written by an interdisciplinary team of ecologists, nature conservationists and environmental philosophers. It seeks to make the...

While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807085813Author Claire Hope CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 298g

From the internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them. In his...

Grain legume crops, e.g. common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), and soyabeans (Glycine max L.) are amongst the main sources of protein in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Their high protein content derive from their ability, in symbiosis with Rhizobium...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999751404Author Yong YangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint 1 Plus Publishing & ConsultingPublisher 1 Plus Publishing &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987628602Author Kerr AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Macotropic TrustPublisher Macotropic TrustWeight(grams) 848g

In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth-some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened-not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously...

Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin...

Ethnoecology has blossomed in recent years into an important science because of the realization that the vast body of knowledge contained in both indigenous and folk cultures is being rapidly lost as natural ecosystems and cultures are being destroyed by...

Much of the country's recent population growth is situated in exurban areas. By many accounts exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of land development in the country and there is no indication it will slow in the foreseeable future (Theobald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780961925864Author William T EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint William T. Evans, MD., P.C.Publisher William T. Evans, MD., P.C.Weight(grams) 178g

A study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism-as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and Aldo Leopold-and how it can inform a new, civic-minded environmentalism today. InThe Landscape of Reform Ben...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998874098Author Dr Andreas Tertey GbolooFormat PaperbackImprint MindStir MediaPublisher MindStir MediaWeight(grams) 943g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976042921Author T J RaffertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Chowderhead PressPublisher Chowderhead PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006013812Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478739821Author Gerald BattleFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 95g