Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Recurring Dark Ages
Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000-year history of structural...
Biodiversity Offsets
European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets. The aim of offsetting schemes is to achieve no let loss or even net gain of biodiversity. Offsets obey a mitigation hierarchy and reflect the precautionary and polluter-pays principle in regard to project impacts.
Readers gain insights...
Ecological Integrity
Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Global Integrity Project has brought together leading scientists and thinkers from around the world to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal human well-being, degradation of the ecosphere, and unsustainable economies. Based on the proposition that healthy, functioning ecosystems...
by G.G. Choudhry
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet ab out the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This volume covers a diverse array of alternative technologies and their development with particular attention to the utilization of bioresources for the achievement of a sustainable environment. The book presents a selection of alternative technologies being used in developing and developed countries...
Problematic Wildlife
A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book provides insight into the instances in which wildlife species can create problems. Some species trigger problems for human activities, but many others need humans to save them and to continue to exist. The text addresses issues faced by economists and politicians dealing with laws involving...
by Kimberly Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Environmental Sciences, University of Phoenix, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The American Mink, Mustela vison, that inhabit Virginia also inhabit much of Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states (excluding parts of the southwest)....
Everyday Lifestyles and Sustainability
The Environmental Impact Of Doing The Same Things Differently
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth’s bio-capacity to supply humanity’s needs, meaning that people are living off earth’s capital rather than its income. However, not all countries are equal and this book explores why apparently similar patterns of daily living can lead...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly recognised by ecologists. This book reviews and assesses the current state of research on hedgerows and associated field margins.
With the intensification of agriculture...
by Benjamin Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1,7, University of Toronto, course: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, language: English, abstract: In 2013, Parks Canada published a first draft plan to reintroduce plains bison to Banff National Park. This project was...
Companions in Conflict
Animals in Occupied Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
An award-winning author explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a surprising lens: the animals trying to survive in occupied hotspots
In August of 2016, Israeli police officers arrested a Palestinian donkey in the Jordan Valley. The charge? Not having the correct paperwork.
It's...
Biodiversity and Wind Farms in Portugal
Current knowledge and insights for an integrated impact assessment process
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book presents a review of the state-of-the-art knowledge on the interactions between biodiversity and wind energy development, focused on the Portuguese reality. The volume addresses the particularities of the impact assessment procedures in Portugal, contrasting it with the international practices...
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest
Species of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Ranching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and value—those open lands.
Nathan Sayre now takes a close look at how the ranching ideal has come into...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, consist of 572 islands with a land area of 8,249 km2. Their topography is hilly and undulating, with elevations up to 732 m on the Andaman and up to 568 m on the Nicobar Islands. They are known for their rich biodiversity and a very high degree of endemicity...