Island Press: 819 books
by Lance H. Gunderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Scientists and researchers concerned with the behavior of large ecosystems have focused in recyears on the concept of "resilience." Traditional perspectives held that ecological systems exist close to a steady state and resilience is the ability of the system to return rapidly to that state following...
Ecological Integrity
Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Global Integrity Project has brought together leading scientists and thinkers from around the world to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal human well-being, degradation of the ecosphere, and unsustainable economies. Based on the proposition that healthy, functioning ecosystems...
Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species
Biological, Social, and Economic Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Some ecosystem managemplans established by state and federal agencies have begun to shift their focus away from single-species conservation to a broader goal of protecting a wide range of flora and fauna, including species whose numbers are scarce or about which there is little scientific understanding....
The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods
Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How do you achieve effective low-carbon design beyond the building level? How do you create a community that is both livable and sustainable? More importantly, how do you know if you have succeeded? Harrison Fraker goes beyond abstract principles to provide a clear, in-depth evaluation of four first...
Next Generation Infrastructure
Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system—and of what many critics see as America’s disinvestment in its infrastructure. The extreme vulnerability of single-purpose, aging infrastructure was highlighted once again when Hurricane...
by Avi Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the demand for residential green building remains strong. More than ever, professionals need reliable information about how to construct or retrofit livable, sustainable, and economical homes. With Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings, Avi Friedman...
Climate Change
The Ipcc Response Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Climate Change is the report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP to address the threat of global warming on an international scale.
by Peter Feinsinger
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Anyone working in biodiversity conservation or field ecology should understand and utilize the common-sense process of scientific inquiry: observing surroundings, framing questions, answering those questions through well-designed studies, and, in many cases, applying results to decision making. Yet...
by Al Sample
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Recadvances in remote-sensing technology and the processing of remote-sensing data through geographic information systems (GIS) presecologists and resource managers with a tremendously valuable tool -- but only if they are able to understand its capabilities and capture its potential.Remote Sensing...
Cool Companies
How The Best Businesses BoProfits And Productivity By Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Despite ongoing negotiations, consensus has not yet been reached on what action will be taken to combat global warming. A number of companies have looked beyond the currstalemate to see the prospect of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions not as a roadblock to growth and innovation but as a unique opportunity...
by Lane H. Kendig
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
A Guide to Planning for Community Character adds a wealth of practical applications to the framework that Lane Kendig describes in his previous book, Community Character. The purpose of the earlier book is to give citizens and planners a systematic way of thinking about the attributes of their communities...
Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise
Green and Gray Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
As cities build more flood-management infrastructure to adapt to the effects of a changing climate, they must go beyond short-term flood protection and consider the long-term effects on the community, its environment, economy, and relationship with the water.
Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise,...
This Sovereign Land
A New Vision For Governing The West
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In This Sovereign Land, Daniel Kemmis offers a radical new proposal for giving the West control over its land. Unlike those who wish to privatize the public lands and let market forces decide their fate, Kemmis, a leading western Democrat and committed environmentalist, argues for keeping the public...
Wildlife Law
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Wildlife Law is a comprehensive and readable primer that provides an overview of U.S. wildlife law for a broad audience, including professionals who work with wildlife or who manage wildlife habitat, students across the spectrum of natural resource courses, landowners, developers, hunters, guides,...