Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating...
Conservation Biology
Evolution in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology. It reviews the evolutionary foundations of conservation issues, and unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary conservation biology. The book can be used...
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks. There has been a rapid decline in populations of many shark species, while new science has emerged of the critical role they play in marine ecosystems. However, the authors show that conservation law and policy...
Community Biodiversity Management
Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by those...
by Professor Eric T. Freyfogle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Grazing animals enjoy an ambiguous reputation in the field of nature conservation. Livestock are often treated as a scourge, yet native large herbivores form the prime attraction of many a reserve. This book gives the first comprehensive overview of the use of grazing as a tool in conservation management....
Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation....
The Price of Permanence
Nature and Business in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that...
Protecting Life on Earth
An Introduction to the Science of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, Protecting Life on Earth offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the growing field of conservation science. This multifaceted exploration of our current biodiversity crisis delivers vivid examples throughout, including features...
The Green Republic
A Conservation History of Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response...
Breaking the Logjam
Environmental Protection That Will Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field...
Natural Connections
Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The mpromising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation...
by Götz Schroth
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry...