Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Conservation Psychology
Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being.
This is the new edition of what is now the leading textbook in conservation psychology,...
Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Biodiversity
Analytical Considerations for Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Achieving environmental conservation and socioeconomic development is a challenging endeavor, particularly when we do not have the necessary tools to develop a clear understanding of the dynamic relationship between indigenous communities and biodiversity in tropical forests. Theories and models oftentimes...
Conservation Directory 2015
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The authority on natural resource use and management agencies around the world.
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2015 is a great resource for budding...
Conservation Directory 2017
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2017 is a great resource for budding environmental activists and scholars alike who want to achieve a peaceful, equitable,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book enhances understanding of the various human and organizational behaviors...
Contesting Conservation
Shahtoosh Trade and Forest Management in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
This book explores today’s changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes – the ban on shahtoosh trade...
The Science of Conservation Planning
Habitat Conservation Under The Endangered Species Act
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Broad-scale conservation of habitats is increasingly being recognized as a more effective means of protecting species and landscapes than single-species preservation efforts. While interest in the approach has grown tremendously in recyears, it remains controversial and the science behind it has yet...
Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
Three Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly...
Defending the Land of the Jaguar
A History of Conservation in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Mexican conservationists have sometimes observed that it is difficult to find a country less interested in the conservation of its natural resources than is Mexico. Yet, despite a long history dedicated to the pursuit of development regardless of its environmental consequences, Mexico has an equally...
The Future of Conservation in America
A Chart for Rough Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America’s natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenges facing the conservation movement are both immediate...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This authoritative dictionary provides over 9,000 entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment-its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories. It covers subjects such as sustainable development, biodiversity, and environmental ethics, it is at the cutting...
by R. Edward Grumbine
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Scientists and policymakers must work together if solutions to the biodiversity crisis are to be found. Yet all too often, scientific data are unknown or incomprehensible to policymakers, and political realities are not fully appreciated by scientists.Environmental Policy and Biodiversity addresses...
by Michael Zagata
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Raised in upstate New York, Mike earned a BS and MS in secondary science at SUNY-Oneonta and Cornell and then a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology at Iowa State University. His varied career included an assistant professorship at the University of Maine-Orono’s School of Forest Resources, Field Director...