Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands
The Legacy of Darwin and its New Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The book explores how Darwin´s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and the Galapagos has had real, enduring...
by Char Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, the first new biography in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement,...
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Meeting the challenge of biodiversity conservation and governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda....
The Allegheny Woodrat
Ecology, Conservation, and Management of a Declining Species
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2008
A decline in populations of Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) was first noticed in the 1980s. Since that time, woodrats have become extirpated from at least two states and have declined dramatically in several others. Recent evidence suggests that the decline of this species may be proceeding...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
by E. Boon, A. Ahenkan, K. A. Domfeh
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Scientific Study from the year 2008 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: B, , 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Health, environment and poverty are closely interrelated and inseparable, particularly in developing countries. WHO estimates that environmental factors...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The book is designed to provide a review on the methods and current status of conservation of the tropical plant species. It will also provide the information on the richness of the tropical plant diversity, the need to conserve, and the potential utilization of the genetic resources. Future perspectives...
Applying Nature's Design
Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
The fragmenting of habitats is endangering animal populations and degrading or destroying many plant populations throughout the world. To address this problem, conservationists have increasingly turned to biological corridors, areas of land set aside to facilitate the movement of species and ecological...
Coral Whisperers
Scientists on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted...
Crop Wild Relatives
A Manual of in situ Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops. They are a vital resource by providing a pool of genetic variation that can be used in breeding new and better adapted varieties of crops that are resistant to stress, disease, drought and other factors. They...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs. In recent decades, there has been increased appreciation of the risk this implies for food security and quality, especially in times of environmental change. As a result, agricultural biodiversity has...
by F.P.G. Princée
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Many endangered species of wild animals are managed in captivity through studbooks. In this book these data-rich resources are mined in innovative, integrated and statistically tested ways to maximise information gain for conservation practice – whether for captive or released/reintroduced or managed...
Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation
The Survival of Wild Species
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose their harvesting.Clement Tisdell combines original theories, survey...
Wild Again
The Struggle to Save the Black-Footed Ferret
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This engaging personal account of one of America's most contested wildlife conservation campaigns has as its central character the black-footed ferret. Once feared extinct, and still one of North America's rarest mammals, the black-footed ferret exemplifies the ecological, social, and political challenges...