Ecology category: 3266 books
Perma/Culture:
Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there...
A Plea for the Animals
The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Marine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances. To a certain extent, the influence of marine biology on the biological sciences was overshadowed over a period of several years by the remarkable advances that were made using powerful...
Original Instructions
Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to today’s global crisis
• Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature
• Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization...
Human Impacts on Amazonia
The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand in stark contrast to colonial and contemporary exploitation of Amazonia by outside interests. With essays from environmental...
Trekking Through History
The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as "Ecuador's...
Fields of the Tzotzil
The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Fields of the Tzotzil is the first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system. In viewing tradition, not as a survival of traits, but as a dynamic process of adaptation by local systems to their placement...
American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship
Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors...
Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands
Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.
This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate...
Island Life
Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history’s foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological diversity. Island Life has long been considered one...
Darwin Comes to Town
How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.
*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.
*Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is a collection of papers from BIOGEOMON, The Fourth International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior. The contributions address a wider-than-ever range of concerns: aspects of catchment monitoring and modeling; nitrogen transformations and processes; stable and radiogenic isotopes; biogeochemistry...
Where Do Camels Belong?
Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Where do camels belong? You may be surprised to learn that they evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America—and also that the leek, national symbol of Wales, was a Roman import to Britain, as were chickens, rabbits and pheasants. These classic examples highlight the issues of...
Once and Future Giants
What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas,...