Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Frederic C. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.”—U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.
The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that...
The State of the Earth
Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Between 1900 and 2000, the world's population quadrupled, and production and consumption of goods increased by a factor of twelve.
In The State...
Nature's Place (Routledge Revivals)
Conservation Sites and Countryside Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades. This title, first published in 1986, deals with the critical issues surrounding nature conservation and wildlife protection. The book is broad in scope, with a focus on the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act...
Conservation of Tropical Rainforests
A Review of Financial and Strategic Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical deforestation, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These include...
World Heritage Conservation
The World Heritage Convention, Linking Culture and Nature for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention has become one of the most successful UN instruments for promoting cultural diplomacy and dialogue on conservation of cultural and natural heritage. This book provides an overview of the convention through an interdisciplinary approach to conservation. It shows...
Living Shorelines
The Science and Management of Nature-Based Coastal Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection. This book will serve as a valuable reference to guide scientists, students, managers,...
by Michael Frome
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist and the premier environmental muckraker who knows a lot about integrity and dedication. He spent years as a media writer defending the environment, while many of his peers played it safe. Frome named names and pointed fingers, often forcing politicians...
Communities and Conservation
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable...
Conservancy
The Land Trust Movement in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Land trusts, or conservancies, protect land by owning it. Although many people are aware of a few large land trusts—The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, for instance—there are now close to 1,300 local trusts, with more coming into being each month. American land trusts are diverse,...
Between Preservation and Exploitation
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.
In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally...
Fencing for Conservation
Restriction of Evolutionary Potential or a Riposte to Threatening Processes?
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The conflict between increasing human population and biodiversity conservation is one of the IUCN’s key threatening processes. Conservation planning has received a great deal of coverage and research as a way of conserving biodiversity yet, while theoretically successful, it has never been tested....
Connectivity Conservation Management
A Global Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. Increasing connections are being considered and made between protected areas and 'connectivity' thinking...
Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia
Challenges in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. These changes characterize the recent period and can be illustrated by the effects of the Green Revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the globalization...
Collected Papers of Michael E. Soulé
Early Years in Modern Conservation Biology
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In the early 1970s, the environmental movemwas underway. Overpopulation was recognized as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soulé believed there was a connection between anthropogenic pressures on natural resources and the loss of the planet’s biodiversity. Soulé—thinker,...