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Biodiversity and Ecological Economics
Participatory Approaches to Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
It is vital that we adopt interdisciplinary approaches such as ecological economics to gain an understanding of the values that determine human interaction with, and use and abuse of, the environment. This book is a model of applied ecological economics. It presents an accessible introduction to the...
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability....
Private Property and the Endangered Species Act
Saving Habitats, Protecting Homes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Our whole nation benefits from the preservation of natural habitats and their diversity of animal and plant species—yet small groups of private landowners often bear most of the costs of setting land aside for conservation purposes. This imbalance has generated many conflicts since the passage of...
Talking Taino
Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas. Walking...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2
Landslide Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with Landslide processes, including: field data and monitoring techniques, prediction and forecasting of landslide occurrence, regional landslide inventories and dating studies, modeling of slope instabilities and secondary hazards (e.g....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book presents landslide studies using the geographic information system (GIS), which includes not only the science of GIS and remote sensing, but also technical innovations, such as detailed light detection and ranging profiles, among others. To date most of the research on landslides has been...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 7: Social and Economic Impact and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the seventh: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 3: Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the seventh: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 2: Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the second: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 4: Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the fourth: 1. Landslide Inventory...
The Fungal Community
Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
"…a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely valuable…overall it is a hugely valuable compendium of fungal ecology research. It is a must for the library shelf."
-Lynne...
Sharing Nature®
Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Sharing Nature with Children sold more than half a million copies and sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education. Now that classic has been rewritten, with added new activities—and combined with Sharing Nature with Children II (a treasury of some of Joseph's best-loved nature games for children...
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means
A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Mif not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society...
The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation
Seen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge among Q'eqchi' Communities in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship...