Environmental Conservation & Protection

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999426395Author Luo AidongFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint 1 Plus Publishing & ConsultingPublisher 1 Plus Publishing &...

Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province. Jack Glenn argues that, despite claims to the...

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental conservation: Is the conservation of large carnivores in ecosystems that...

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As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010, two ideas of Austin as a place came into conflict. Many who promoted the ideology of growth believed Austin would be defined by economic output, money, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944280294Author Mary Ellen SnodgrassFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Bancroft-Sage Publishing,U.S.Publisher Bancroft-Sage Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431810Author Dimitrios RoussopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world's poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve establishing property...

In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book covers the extent, causes, processes and impacts of global soil degradation, and processes for improvement of degraded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904915331Author Deborah GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Southbank PublishingPublisher Southbank PublishingWeight(grams) 188g

Sustainability Sutra addresses the pursuit of sustainability as crucial in the transformation from an industrial to an ecological civilization, exploring in succinct detail how sustainability can be accomplished through an ecological global growth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944280317Author Mary Ellen SnodgrassFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Bancroft-Sage Publishing,U.S.Publisher Bancroft-Sage Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944280270Author Mary Ellen SnodgrassFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Bancroft-Sage Publishing,U.S.Publisher Bancroft-Sage Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In Requiem for Nature, John Terborgh examines current conservation strategies and considers the shortcomings of parks and protected areas both from ecological and institutional perspectives. He explains how seemingly pristine environments can gradually...

This new biography, the first in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement,...

A collection of previously unavailable essays by environmentalist Aldo Leopold, building on the tradition of ethical land use and developing the concept of "land health" and the practical measures landowners can take to sustain it. Containing...

The management of coastal and ocean fisheries is highly contentious. Industry interests focus on maximizing catches while conservationists and marine scientists have become increasingly concerned about dramatic declines in fish stocks and the health of...

The writings gathered in this book explore an important but little-publicized movement in American culture - the marked resurgence of agrarian practices and values in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. It is a movement that in widely varied ways is...

Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don't multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading...

Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday lives-the air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we use-the way the discourse of climate change influences how we make meaning of ourselves and our world is still unexplored...

Early hunter/gatherer societies have traditionally been considered basically egalitarian in nature. This assumption, however, has been challenged by contemporary archaeological and anthropological research, which has demonstrated that many of these...

The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a systematic method for assessing wildland fire behavior potential. This field guide provides a simplified version of the system, presented in tabular format. It was prepared to assist field...

-- Times Higher Education SupplementBook InformationISBN 9780231101707Author Michael J. BalickFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Examines the regeneration of babassu palm trees on deforested land in Amazonian Brazil, how it is being used by the rural populations, and how development policies are undermining this gift. Concludes by critiquing the conventional model of ecology and...

The destruction of tropical forests is intimately intertwined with the fate of the rural poor who rely on this resource for their livelihood. Conservation of Neotropical Forests provides important information for understanding the interactions of forest...

Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife. Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039161870Author ClaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982753712Author James A CaplanFormat PaperbackImprint Environmental Dispute Resolution USAPublisher Environmental Dispute Resolution USAWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982753705Author James A CaplanFormat PaperbackImprint Environmental Dispute Resolution USAPublisher Environmental Dispute Resolution USAWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998629414Author Aaron William PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Earth Water PressPublisher Earth Water PressWeight(grams) 195g

While scouting sites for geology field trips, poet and naturalist John Lane encountered deep gullies created between the Civil War and the 1930s contributed to by his mother’s tenant farming family and their rural neighbors in Piedmont South Carolina...

Growing evidence suggests that the global economy, rooted in ideas and assumptions that were progressive two hundred years ago, is now destroying its own ecological base and offering little to billions of impoverished people. In response, pioneers are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369362254Author Alison BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984382354Author J Emil MorhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Roberts Environmental CenterPublisher Roberts Environmental CenterWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983179726Author Barbara J MoritschFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bear Clover BooksPublisher Bear Clover BooksWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820358178Author Rick Van NoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's initial publication. Chief among these are the home rule movement and accompanying social and legal events...

Cats and Conservationists is the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage...

Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern. Signs of Water...

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to...