Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
This pioneering encyclopedia illuminates a topic at the forefront of global ecology—biological invasions, or organisms that come to live in the wrong place. Written by leading scientists from around the world, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions addresses all aspects of this subject at a global...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 1: From the Florida Peninsula to the Coastal Plain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This Island Press E-ssential is the first in a three-part series that covers John Davis’s epic journey from Florida to Canada. During 10 months in 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles from the Florida Everglades to Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula by foot, bicycle,...
by Peter Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Freshwater is in great supply across much of Canada. However, competing and changing demands on its use are leading to ever more complex political arrangements. This volume offers an integrated survey of that complexity, combining historical and contemporary cases in a conceptually-informed exploration...
by Peter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Peter Scott: Collected Writings, 1933-1989 brings together some of Peter Scott's most inspiring, perceptive and entertaining writings, with a foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. From rocket-netting wild geese to an address to the Pope, Scott's writings show the energy and passion that underpinned...
Digging the City
An Urban Agriculture Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies...
Among Chimpanzees
Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
**Foreword by Jane Goodall
A former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save man’s closest relative.**
Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses show them to be extinct in four African...
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors
People and Wildlife Working It Out in California
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 3: From the Adirondack Mountains to the Gaspé Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive traveles were motivated by wanting...
Dispossession and the Environment
Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities...
A Voice of Reason
Reflections on Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Can civilization survive the 21st century? Professor Ian Lowe, author, pre-eminent scientist and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, thinks we have a chance-but we have to act now, and not just on global warming. Here, collected for the first time, are Lowe’s views on topics that...
At the Hand of Man
Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Defying conventional wisdom even as it makes an impassioned plea for moral common sense, this book by an award-winning journalist sheds a new light on the history and politics of the African conservation movement. The book will anger and inspire anyone who cares about African wildlife and the people whose future is intertwined with the fate of these animals.
Last Stand
Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Entrepreneur and media mogul Ted Turner has commanded global attention for his dramatic personality, his founding of CNN, his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his company’s merger with Time Warner. But his green resume has gone largely ignored, even while his role as a pioneering eco-capitalist means...
Authenticity in Nature
Making Choices about the Naturalness of Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth. But there are large differences...
Savannas of Our Birth
People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.
Our ancient...