Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
The rapid progression of technology has significantly impacted population growth, urbanization, and industrialization in modern society. These developments, while positive on the surface, have created critical environmental problems in recent years. The Handbook of Research on Inventive Bioremediation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book, the only one of its kind on ravine lands, reflects the significant advances made over the past two decades in our understanding of gully erosion, its controlling factors, and various aspects of gully erosion. It also addresses central research gaps and unanswered questions, which include...
by Dale Richard McCullough, Jonathan Ballou, Bradley Stith
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Developmof rural landscapes is converting once-vast expanses of open space into pockets of habitat where wildlife populations exist in isolation from other members of their species. The central concept of metapopulation dynamics -- that a constellation of partially isolated patches can yield overall...
Saving Arcadia
A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about...
Green in Gridlock
Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in history—acid rain—lawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides. As a result, they achieved a spectacular outcome. This approach...
Environmental Change in the Himalayan Region
Twelve Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
The book focuses on environment and conservation issues pertaining to the Himalayas, spanning Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar. Environmental degradation, changes in snow cover and glaciers in India-Bhutan, threats to protected areas, and biodiversity in this ecologically fragile region are assessed in twelve distinct, regional case studies.
Plant Conservation
An Ecosystem Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this, the latest in the People and Plants series, plant conservation is described in the context of livelihoods and development, and ways of balancing the conservation of plant diversity with the use of plants and the environment for human benefit are discussed. A central contention in this book...
Plant Conservation
Why It Matters and How It Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Plants’ ability to turn sunlight into energy makes them the basis for all life; without them there is no life. And they are more than just a food source—they provide us with fuel, fibers, and pharmaceuticals.
Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats are a serious threat to...
by Leroy G. Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Among Theodore Roosevelt’s many initiatives, one of the most important accomplishments was his effort to convince the nation that conserving the environment was crucial to its continued existence. Years of national tours, presidential edicts, and policy wrangling culminated in an unprecedented conference...
Rewilding North America
A Vision For Conservation In The 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Dave Foreman is one of North America's mcreative and effective conservation leaders, an outspoken proponof protecting and restoring the earth's wildness, and a visionary thinker. Over the past 30 years, he has helped set direction for some of our minfluential conservation organizations, served as...
Nature Unbound
Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories...
Parks, Peace, and Partnership
Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of...
The Case of the Green Turtle
An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been...
Arguments for Protected Areas
Multiple Benefits for Conservation and Use
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Most protected areas (e.g.national parks and nature reserves) have been created to protect wildlife and land- and seascape values. They currently cover over 13% of the world's land surface, around 12% of marine coastal areas and 4% of the marine shelf. Retaining and expanding these areas in the future...