Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
A Manual for AssessmPractitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Designed by a partnership of UN agencies, international scientific organizations, and developmagencies, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessm(MA) is the mextensive study ever of the linkages between the world’s ecosystems and human well-being. The goal of the MA is to establish the scientific basis for...
Environmental Compartments
Equilibria and Assessment of Processes Between Air, Water, Sediments and Biota
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Any concentration of a substance measured in a living or non-living system results from its distribution among all of the environmental compartments: air, water, sediments, and biota. The transfer of a substance from one compartment to another is regulated by physical forces and the chemical properties...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of...
by Pavel Krasilnikov, Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Robert J. Ahrens
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. This book provides a state-of-the-art view on Mexican soils, their geographical distribution, their...
by Catherine Rich
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding...
Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions
Applications of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive...
Sacred Mountains
A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain. They pray for the health and renewal of the land and for their communities, lamenting the corporate greed of the mining companies. On another day, in southern West Virginia, Andrew Jordon...
The Greening of Canada
Federal Institutions and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Environmental matters have become increasingly important in Canadian and world policy agendas. In this study, G. Bruce Doern and Thomas Conway trace the development of Canadian environment policy, giving an in-depth account of twenty years of environmental politics, politicians, institutions, and...
The National Environmental Policy Act
An Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1999
The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College
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The Galapagos Marine Reserve
A Dynamic Social-Ecological System
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
This book focuses on how marine systems respond to natural and anthropogenic perturbations (ENSO, overfishing, pollution, tourism, invasive species, climate-change). Authors explain in their chapters how this information can guide management and conservation actions to help orient and better manage,...
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
Measuring the environmental performance of products
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment is an introductory college level textbook on the science of Life Cycle Assessment. It provides materials for a full year of study. Over thirty LCA experts were brought together by the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, with full redundant editing to provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Population growth and industrial development have put the wide-open spaces and natural resources that define the West under immense stress. Vested interests clash and come to terms over embattled resources such as water, minerals, and even open space. The federal government controls 40 to 80 percent...
Protecting Pollinators
How to Save the Creatures that Feed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The fall of the iron curtain revealed widespread environmental and safety short comings in relation to industrial operations, mining and other human activities. It was the purpose of this Advanced Research Workshop, sponsored by NATO, to bring together a group of eminent experts from East and West...