Island Press: 819 books
Oceans 2020
Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Oceans 2020 presents a comprehensive assessmof the mimportant science and societal issues that are likely to arise in marine science and ocean managemin the next twenty years. Sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and...
Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities
A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Developed to inform the 2013 National Climate Assessment, and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage and conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities examines the known effects and relationships of climate...
Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts
Report for the 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Prepared for the 2013 National Climate Assessment and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage, Climate Change and the Pacific Islands was developed by the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment, a collaborative effort engaging federal, state, and local government agencies,...
The Science of Open Spaces
Theory and Practice for Conserving Large, Complex Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
From the days of the American Frontier, the term "open spaces" has evoked a vision of unspoiled landscapes stretching endlessly toward the horizon, of nature operating on its own terms without significant human interference. Ever since, government agencies, academia, and conservation organizations have...
Protecting the Wild
Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates,...
Artful Rainwater Design
Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Stormwater management as art? Absolutely. Rain is a resource that should be valued and celebrated, not merely treated as an urban design problem—and yet, traditional stormwater treatment methods often range from ugly to forgettable. Artful Rainwater Design shows that it's possible to effectively manage...
America's Private Forests
Status And Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Nearly 430 million acres of forests in the United States are privately owned, but the viability, and indeed the very existence, of these forests is increasingly threatened by population growth, sprawling urbanization, and patchwork development. Scientists, policymakers, and community leaders have...
Who Pays the Price?
The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water...
by William B. Willers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this inspired collection, some of America's mprovocative thinkers and writers reflect on nature and enviornmetnal science--reaching compelling conclusions about humanity's relationship to the earth. Balanced by science and fact,*Learning to Listen to the Land*explains the significance of our modern...
Property and Values
Alternatives To Public And Private Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Property and Values offers a fresh look at property rights issues, bringing together scholars, attorneys, governmofficials, community developmpractitioners, and environmental advocates to consider new and more socially equitable forms of ownership. Based on a Harvard Law School conference organized...
Observation and Ecology
Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments—issues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive species—is driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. Observation and Ecology documents...
Protecting the Commons
A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Commons -- lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species -- are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs.Protecting...
The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy
Choices For The New Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The United States is about to embark on the mthorough reconsideration of its ocean policy in more than three decades. With 1998 designated as the International Year of the Ocean by the United Nations, and with both the executive branch and the Congress currently working toward developing new approaches...
by Lance H. Gunderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances likehurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory...