Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Thomas S. Barrett, Putnam Livermore, Phil Hoose
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1983
The conservation easemis an effective and flexible technique for land preservation. The Conservation Easemin California, written by California attorneys expert in conservation law for The Trust for Public Land, is an authoritative legal handbook for the use of conservation easements in California....
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
Generations on the Land
A Conservation Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The landowners in this book have improved their land and done so by being profitable, generous to their human community, committed to family, and desirous of leaving land better than when it came into their stewardship.—from the introduction by Brent Haglund
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In 2008, the Sand...
Stand Up That Mountain
The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In the tradition of A Civil Ac tion—the true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian “mountain people” neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed
Living alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old,...
The Redwood Forest
History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Evidence is mounting that redwood forests, like many other ecosystems, cannot survive as small, isolated fragments in human-altered landscapes. Such fragments lose their diversity over time and, in the case of redwoods, may even lose the ability to grow new, giant trees.*The Redwood Forest*, written...
Computing Our Way to Paradise?
The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and services,...
by Kip Anderson, Keegan Kuhn
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Discover the biggest issue in conservation today. This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the impacts of the most environmentally destructive industry on the planet: animal agriculture.
The award-winning documentary Cowspiracy presents alarming truths about the effects of animal...
Conservation by Proxy
Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on "surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species-known by a host of different terms, including indicator, umbrella, and flagship species-act as proxies to represent larger conservation...
The Texas Landscape Project
Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its population and economy have boomed and as Texans have worked ever harder to safeguard its bountiful but limited...
Against Extinction
The Story of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why.' Bulletin of British Ecological Society Against Extinction tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation of...
Decolonizing Nature
Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled...
by Peter Marren
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years. As our environment is subjected to increasing assault from climatic changes and pollutants, conservation has become a growing concern for...
Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas
A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
A vast number of national parks and protected areas throughout the world have been established in the customary territories of Indigenous peoples. In many cases these conservation areas have displaced Indigenous peoples, undermining their cultures, livelihoods, and self-governance, while squandering...
by Marco Festa-Bianchet
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences--in age, sex, size, past experience--affect how an animal...