Island Press: 819 books
A Face in the Rock
The Tale Of A Grand Island Chippewa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Eight miles long and four miles wide, Grand Island lies off the south shore of Lake Superior. It was once home to a sizable community of Chippewa Indians who lived in harmony with the land and with each other. Their tragic demise began early in the nineteenth century when their fellow tribesmen from...
Holistic Management Handbook
Healthy Land, Healthy Profits
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Holistic management, as described by Allan Savory in the books Holistic Resource Management (Island Press, 1988) and the revised edition, Holistic Management (Island Press, 2001), has been practiced by thousands of people around the world to profitably restore and promote the health of their land through...
Rush to Burn
Solving America's Garbage Crisis?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1989
One day in March 1987, a barge from Islip, Long Island was evicted from Morehead City, North Carolina, after trying to unload the mountains of trash on its decks. More than five months from the time it began its trip, the unwelcome barge, and it's 3,186 tons of commercial garbage, became the cornerstone...
by Orrin H. Pilkey, Rob Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract...
Seeking the Sacred Raven
Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Will the 'Alala ever return to the wild? A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a member of the raven family, the 'Alala today survives only in captivity. How the species once flourished, how it has been driven to near-extinction, and how people struggled to save it, is the gripping story of Seeking the Sacred...
by Jim Howe, Edward T. McMahon, Luther Propst
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Increasing numbers of Americans are fleeing cities and suburbs for the small towns and open spaces that surround national and state parks, wildlife refuges, historic sites, and other public lands. With their scenic beauty and high quality of life, these "gateway communities" have become a magnet for...
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,...
Panarchy Synopsis
Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
‘Panarchy’ is a new term coined from the name of the Greek god Pan, a symbol of universal nature and associated with unpredictable change.It represents an alternative framework for managing the issues that emerge from the interaction between people and nature.That interaction generates countless...
Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management
Concepts And Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht are co-directors of the Center for the Study of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware and co-authors of The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy (Island Press, 1998).
Owning and Managing Forests
A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Owning and Managing Forests is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights, and obligations that accompany forest ownership and a guidebook to help active forest owners and managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of expensive and exhausting litigation. The book is a revised,...
Turning the Tide
Saving the Chesapeake Bay
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an indepth look at the Bay’s vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been done and what remained to be done to clean...
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...
Green at Work
Finding a Business Career that Works for the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Green at Work, published by Island Press in 1992, was the first source of information to help nontechnical but environmentally concerned job seekers learn about career opportunities with environmental companies or within the newly emerging "green" corporate culture. Now entirely revised and expanded,...
Restoring Wildlife
Ecological Concepts and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Restoration plans must take into account the needs of curror desired wildlife species in project areas. Restoring Wildlife gives ecologists, restorationists, administrators, and other professionals involved with restoration projects the tools they need to understand essential ecological concepts,...