Ecology category: 3266 books
The Case of the Green Turtle
An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been...
by Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Jemma Wadham
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The Antarctic continent carries the greatest diversity of lake environments on the planet: freshwater and saline lakes, tidal freshwater epishelf lakes, lakes on ice shelves and glacier surfaces, and over three hundred subglacial lakes; extraordinary ecosystems that have been separated from the atmosphere...
The Cutting Edge
Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how...
North Pacific Temperate Rainforests
Ecology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of key issues important for the management and conservation of the northern portion of this rainforest, located...
Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon
On a Local Society in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane’, a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Following a common methodological framework, the material and energy flow (MEFA) approach, it gives a detailed account of the biophysical exchange relations...
by Judith O'Grady
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Pagan Portals - God-Speaking offers a new concept in Earth ecology incorporating mysticism and folk religion. The author is both a trance seer and a biologist, bringing a unique balance to an examination of nature philosophy. Storytelling examples from Irish folklore, NeoPagan theology, and scientific...
Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues
Reflections on Redecorating Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
What is it really like to be a dog? Do animals experience emotions like pleasure, joy, and grief? Marc Bekoff's work draws world-wide attention for its originality and its probing into what animals think about and know as well as what they feel, what physical and mental skills they use to live successfully...
Contested Extractivism, Society and the State
Struggles over Mining and Land
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales. In contrast with the existing literature, analyses in this volume deliberately focus on large-scale land use changes both in relation to the expansion of industrial...
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Working with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary...
Changing Tack
An Ecological Account of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Changing Tack is an inspirational account of one man’s quest to understand ecology and use it to live more fully in his daily work and play. The book shows how the environment is an active player in our personal lives, not just in global disasters and far-away places. Stories from the author’s life bear witness to the ecological meaning of everyday events.
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Literature, Animals, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment...
Following the Water
A Hydromancer's Notebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
A nature journal of New Hampshire wetlands life, from an author Annie Dillard calls “a national treasure.”
Following the Water is the intensely observed chronicle of a naturalist’s annual March-to-November wetlands immersion—from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March to the gorgeously...
Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life
From the Thermodynamics of Life to Ecological Microbiology, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii’s career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists,...
by Rudolph A. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts...