Ecology category: 3266 books
National Environmental Accounting
Bridging the Gap between Ecology and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book presents national environmental, or 'green' accounting as it has developed in Europe and other parts of the world. It introduces the most recent methods developed through the United Nations Statistical Department and other international organizations, but bridges the gap between the superficial...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by human activity and that in turn have a profound effect on our understanding of and identification with a place. The book proposes...
Green Ice
Tourism Ecologies in the European High North
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic...
Lake Kivu
Limnology and biogeochemistry of a tropical great lake
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
In the heart of Africa, a unique lake attracts the attention of scientists since the beginning of the 20th century. At the foot of the Virunga volcano chain, Lake Kivu harbors a vast amount of dissolved carbon dioxide and methane, making this lake the most dangerous lake on Earth. But the lake furnishes...
Interpreting Nature
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
Nature, Environment and Poetry
Ecocriticism and the poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues...
Mapping Species Distributions
Spatial Inference and Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration, species and habitat conservation plans and predicting...
by James P. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
"Views From the Back forty" is the author's first person story aboutrural life on what had once been the back forty acreage of a family farm. When the author and his wife purchased the land, partly for benefit of two growing sons, it gave the impression of being worn-out acreage. But after...
Nature's Second Chance
Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise."
Few have taken Leopold's vision more to heart than Steven I. Apfelbaum, who has, over the...
by Christopher Dye
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the disease. Reenvisioning tuberculosis from the perspective of population biology, this book examines why the disease is so...
Private Fire
Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose is an examination of the life and work of one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Babcock uses his own personal relationship Robert Francis's work, which emphasizes conservation and connectedness to our...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book presents an overview of current knowledge about social–ecological systems (SESs), a productive new field dedicated to understanding the relationships between human society and nature. To make the reader aware of how SESs are necessary to maintain our society, the book begins with a broad...
Biocultural Landscapes
Diversity, Functions and Values
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book is devoted to the cultural and biological dimensions and values of landscapes, linking the concepts of biodiversity, landscape and culture and presenting an essential approach for landscape analysis, interpretation and sustainable dynamics.
Early chapters explore the concepts and...
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition
Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological & Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand...