Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Get Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Helping The Earth And Going Green With Waste!
Is the fact that you would like to learn how to be more concious with waste and help out Mother Earth but just don't know how to get started making you feel really bad... maybe you have even thought...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. This volume consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from around the globe all writing on the most recent finding on the evolution, ecology and conservation of bats. The chapters in this book are not...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Editorial Scope
The Environmental Communication Yearbook is a multidisciplinary forum through which a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners can share and build theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. This...
Marine Conservation Biology
The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2005
Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues.
Species at Risk
Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle—but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage...
The Wildlife in Trust
A Hundred Years of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In May 1912, banker and naturalist, Charles Rothschild, laid the foundations for nature conservation as we know it today. His new organization, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, had one main objective—to save Britain's finest wildlife sites. The Wildlife in Trust is a history of...
Responsible Tourism
Critical Issues for Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
�Responsible Tourism presents a wide variety of valuable lessons learned in responsible tourism initiatives in Southern Africa that many tourism practitioners can use in their efforts to make the tourism sector work for the poor and for the environment.� Dr Harsh Varma, Director, Development Assistance...
The Vicuña
The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Things have changed. In 1969 when the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicuña was drafted, in an attempt to save the vicuña from its tumbling decline towards extinction, both the science and the philosophy of wildlife conservation were radically different. It is thus a tribute to the prescience...
by Sharon B. Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt�s establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 had lasting conservation impacts across the nation. Virginia joined this effort when Will Carson of the Virginia Conservation Commission convinced Roosevelt to use the Civilian Conservation Corps to build a state park...
by Mary Huston Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1911. According to the Preface: " Much has been said and written on the subject of conservation and many excellent ideas have been advanced, but as yet too little has been accomplished in the way of practical results. Probably this is due largely to the fact that most people think...
The Challenges of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa
The Park Came After Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Established in 2003, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park encompasses land in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Prioritizing wildlife over people, it paved the way for human rights abuses by park rangers, increased human–wildlife conflict, and the forced resettlement of up to 6,000 Mozambicans....
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby...
GroundWork for Community-Based Conservation
Strategies for Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures. This concise and accessible book will give...
The Hunter Elite
Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press...