Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Rituparna Bose, Alexander J. Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
The prerequisite to investigating the underlying causes behind mass extinction is a profound understanding of the evolutionary history of both living and dead species. It is especially important to appreciate the significance of such studies in extinct organisms; especially in organisms that were...
The Natural Heritage of Illinois
Essays on Its Lands, Waters, Flora, and Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
*The Natural Heritage of *Illinois is an engaging collection of ninety-three essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. Written in lively, accessible prose, the book discusses how wind, water, glaciers, earthquakes, fire, and people have shaped Illinois’ landforms, natural...
Rivers of Restoration
Trout Unlimited's First 50 Years of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A beautiful tribute to twenty rivers restored by the work of Trout Unlimited and its members. We all love rivers and the trout that the best of them hold. For fifty years, the volunteers of Trout Unlimited have strived to restore, sustain, and preserve the nation's trout and salmon waters. Weaving...
Lifelines
The Case for River Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
The health of our nation is reflected in the health of our rivers. These flowing streams supply our drinking water and they sustain the biological wealth of the continent. Central to our past and vital to our future, rivers are the lifelines, yet they are constantly under siege.
In Lifelines,...
Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangered species. This crisis also threatens the security of human beings in ways ignored until recently by decision-makers slow to begin to treat what is typically viewed as a ‘conservation issue’ as serious crime.
Over...
Virtues of Renewal
Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of...
The Mekong
Biophysical Environment of an International River Basin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The 4 downstream countries have formed the Mekong River Commission to promote sustainable development...
After the Grizzly
Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from...
The Little Book of Going Green
Really Understand Climate Change, Use Greener Products, Adopt a Tree, Save Water, and Much More!
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” —Barbara Wood
The Little Book of Going Green aims to shed light on the ways humans are harming the environment, from pollution and deforestation to industrial production and farming...
Rainforest
Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity—but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world...
Soil Geography of the USA
A Diagnostic-Horizon Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Since 1980, our understanding of the factors and processes governing the distribution of soils on the Earth’s surface has increased dramatically, as have the techniques for studying soil patterns. The approach used in this book relies on the National Resources Conservation Service databases to...
Private Property and the Endangered Species Act
Saving Habitats, Protecting Homes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Our whole nation benefits from the preservation of natural habitats and their diversity of animal and plant species—yet small groups of private landowners often bear most of the costs of setting land aside for conservation purposes. This imbalance has generated many conflicts since the passage of...
Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods
A Case Study of Extinct Organisms in Classical Paleontology
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Fossil species appear to persist morphologically unchanged for long intervals of geologic time, punctuated by short bursts of rapid change as explained by the Ecological Evolutionary Units (EEUs). Here, morphological variation in Paleozoic atrypide morphology at the subfamily level (Atrypinae and...
Tropical Wetland Management
The South-American Pantanal and the International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Recent scientific development and politico-institutional experiences related to the conservation of the South-American Pantanal are explored in this book in relation to what is happening in other tropical wetland areas of international importance such as the Everglades in North America and the Okavango...