Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Keeping the Wild
Against the Domestication of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between...
Agrarianism and the Good Society
Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2007
Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America's core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats,...
Bird Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of bird experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild birds. For each intervention, the book...
by Stephen R. Kellert, Scott McVay, Aaron Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our developmas individuals...
by Neil S Forkey
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and...
Character and Environment
A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics....
Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Saving North America's Western Grasslands
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Prairie dogs and the grassland habitat in which they play a key ecological role have declined precipitously over the past two centuries. The currnumber of prairie dogs is believed to be less than 2 percof the number encountered by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s, and only a fraction of grassland...
Ecology and Design
Frameworks For Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for...
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South.
Wormsloe...
Watering the Revolution
An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics have been embraced by many in natural resource conservation. Today, several major conservation and management journals are now using 'genetics' editors to deal solely with the influx of manuscripts that employ molecular data. The editors have attempted...
Look Up!
Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Look Up! Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window is a collection of uplifting yet scientifically-informed nature essays about experiencing nature in an affordable, accessible way. It highlights simple, practical ways to tune in to birds, nature, light, peace and weather – often...
Green Phoenix
Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the...
A Big Fix
Radical Solutions for Australia’s Environmental Crisis: Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
If civilisation is to survive, this century will have to see dramatic transformation, not just in technological capacity but also in our approach to the natural world - and to each other. The road we are travelling on now can only end in disaster. The warnings from scientists are unequivocal: we cannot...