Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Ecotourists Save the World
The Environmental Volunteer's Guide to More Than 300 International Adventures to Conserve, Preserve, and Rehabilitate Wildlife and Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A comprehensive guide to environmental and wildlife volunteer programs throughout the world.
This unique site-by-site guide profiles more than 300 programs where volunteers can work in a variety of activities involving conservation and study of wildlife. From the Fur Seal Project of the Earthwatch...
Environmentalism Gone Mad
How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career as a manager and senior analyst at the U.S....
Nature Conservation in Europe
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Rio Summit has pointed to the urgency for the development of an international conservation policy; and the post-Maastricht debates in Europe have highlighted the need for the EU to reassess structural funding in nature conservation, as well as the influences on policy and practice.
This book is...
Tangled Roots
The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian�and thru-hiker�Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a...
World Ecological Degradation
Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are...
Conservation of Genetic Resources
Costs and Implications for a Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past decade the importance of natural resources for sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed at international forums and conferences. Aside from the sustainable management of soil, water, and air, it now seems to be accepted that the sustainable management of genetic...
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
A Life of David Brower
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force...
Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System
Global Context to Local Dynamics of Sustainable Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book arises from a 2011 international conference entitled Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011), organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS)...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book introduces updated information on conservation issues, providing an overview of what is needed to advance the global conservation of freshwater decapods such as freshwater crabs, crayfish, and shrimps.
Biodiversity loss in general is highest in organisms that depend on intact freshwater...
Fight for the Bay
Why a Dark Green Environmental Awakening is Needed to Save the Chesapeake Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
"Alfred Russel Wallace- His Predecessors and Successors. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-east Asia and Australasia. An International Conference" will be the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of studies on Alfred...
Conservation and Sustainable Development
Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...
An Introduction to the Green Economy
Science, Systems and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice. Considerable investments are now being made into the development of green technology, renewable energy,...
by Martemjen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Conservationist has been contemptuous of Indigenous peoples and their knowledge. As such, all the modern polices, acts and laws in biodiversity conservation intends to follow a “top down” approach, where decisions to be enacted upon the local people, their land, biodiversity, forest etc...