Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
King Sequoia
The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The history of California’s Big Trees
From a towering tree, one of California’s preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of the Big Trees in a narrative that travels deep into the...
by James E. Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
NATURE RESERVE ON THE CITY'S EDGE
" In this book James E Garratt has written a love story, a tone poem... It's astonishing to think that something this relatively untouched still exists in the Anthropocene Age. But it's not in a fairy tale book, it's in Vaughan [Ontario, Canada]. Garratt...
Prairie
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Told in the author's distinctively enchanting style, this bestselling guide to one of the largest ecosystems in North America is now updated.
Authoritative, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairie: A Natural History provides a comprehensive, non-technical guide to the biology and ecology...
Frontiers in Nature-based Tourism
Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Nature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors within tourism across Europe and elsewhere. This demand has created opportunities for nature-based tourism...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The first volume of the *International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy *includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes...
Uncovering the Hidden Harvest
Valuation Methods for Woodland and Forest Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Forests and woodlands provide an enormous range of goods and services to society, from timber and firewood to medicinal plants, watershed protection, destinations for tourists and sacred sites. Only when these are understood and valued can forests and their resources be properly managed and conserved....
The Florida Panther
Life And Death Of A Vanishing Carnivore
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
When the first field study of the Florida panther took place in 1973, so little was known about the animal that many scientists believed it was already extinct. During more extensive research conducted from 1981 to 1986, panthers were proven to exist, but the handful of senile, anemic, and parasite-infested...
Coming to Pass
Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean’s memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once was, as it is now, and as it may...
Saving All the Parts
Reconciling Economics And The Endangered Species Act
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Saving All the Parts is a journalist's exploration of the intertwining of endangered species protection and the economic future of resource dependcommunities -- those with local economies based on fishing, logging, ranching, mining, and other resource intensive industries. Rocky Barker presents an...
Ranching West of the 100th Meridian
Culture, Ecology, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Recommended by The Nature Conservancy magazine.*Ranching West of the 100th Meridian* offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book's lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening...
Voices of the Wild
Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat types, marine and terrestrial. With powerful illustrations...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Soils into which crop plants root and from which they obtain essential minerals and water contain huge arrays of microbes. Many have highly beneficial effects on crop growth and productivity, others are pathogens causing diseases and losses to yield and quality, a few microbes offer protection from...
by Luigi La Riccia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning? What actions / rules are now achievable for the protection, planning and management of local-scale landscapes? The overall reflections gathered...
by Peter Friederici
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests brings together practitioners and thinkers from a variety of fields—including forestry, biology, philosophy, ecology, political science, archaeology, botany, and geography—to synthesize what is known about ecological restoration in...