Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books

Cover of The Environmental Communication Yearbook
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

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...
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A Chance for Lasting Survival

Ecology and Behavior of Wild Giant Pandas

by Pan Wenshi
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was conducted during a significant transition period...
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The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation

Seen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge among Q'eqchi' Communities in Guatemala

by Petra Maass
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship...
Cover of Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation
by Khan Towhid Osman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book covers the extent, causes, processes and impacts of global soil degradation, and processes for improvement of degraded soils. Soil conservation measures, including...
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Conservation Agriculture

An Approach to Combat Climate Change in Indian Himalaya

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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

This book showcases a compilation of case studies presented by scientists, teachers and academics and covers contemporary technologies for combating climate change, including sustainable agricultural management practices and conservation agriculture. It highlights the situations that future generations...
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The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation

A Practical Guide and Case Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

The book will provide an overview of the practical application of remote sensing for the purposes of nature conservation as developed by ecologists in collaboration with remote sensing specialists, providing guidance on all phases from the planning of remote sensing projects for conservation to the interpretation and validation of the images.  
Cover of Insects, Fire and Conservation
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014

A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered information to provide a guide to improved conservation management practice. The great variety of responses by insect species and assemblages demonstrates the often subtle balance...
Cover of Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009

In this book, we document and evaluate the recovery of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The Great Lakes region is unique in that it was the only portion of the lower 48 states where wolves were never c- pletely extirpated. This region also contains the area...
Cover of Urban Environmental Education Review
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel...
Cover of Forest conservation in protected areas of Bangladesh

Forest conservation in protected areas of Bangladesh

Policy and community development perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

This book dealt with a number of issues under the broad subject matter of protected area focusing on the policy of collaborative management as a means to augment the forest conservation activities and enhance community development in Bangladesh. Studies covered in the book emerged with the success...
Cover of Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

This book provides information relevant for the conservation of biodiversity and the sound management of the coastal and forest ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula in the face of global change. Various aspects of the biodiversity of the Yucatan Peninsula are analyzed in an integrative manner, including...
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Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration

Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon

by Stephen G. Perz
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Many societal challenges defy simple solutions within the grasp of one academic discipline, a single type of organization, or a country acting alone. Such “wicked problems” require collaboration that crosses social, political, or geographic boundaries. Collaboration across boundaries is increasingly...
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Urban Nature Conservation

Landscape Management in the Urban Countryside

by Stephen Forbes, Tony Kendle
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Urban nature conservation is a field that has grown rapidly in importance over the past 20 years and will continue to do so in the coming years as landscape ecology and greenspace planning become established disciplines. A widespread concern and interest in the wild plants and animal life found in...
Cover of Wildlife Behavior and Conservation
by Richard H. Yahner
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Begins with in-depth coverage of wildlife behavior concepts as they relate to conservation problems. Topics will focus principally on discussion, critique, and development of behavioral concepts, with particular attention given to published studies on various topics in wildlife behavioral concepts...
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