Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
From Conquest to Conservation
Our Public Lands Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
From Conquest to Conservation is a visionary new work from three of the nation’s mknowledgeable experts on public lands. As chief of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck became a lightning rod for public debate over issues such as the managemof old-growth forests and protecting roadless areas. Dombeck...
Parks in Transition
Biodiversity, Rural Development and the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Parks face intense pressure from both environmental and developmental perspectives to conserve biodiversity and provide economic opportunities for rural communities. These imperatives are often in conflict, while potential solutions may be subject to theoretical and practical disagreement and complicated...
by John Terborgh
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has sphalf of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet even there, in one of the mremote corners of the...
Nature of the Miracle Years
Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context....
Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems
Lake St Lucia as a Global Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
St Lucia is the world's oldest protected estuary and Africa's largest estuarine system. It is also the centerpiece of South Africa's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and has been a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since 1986. Knowledge of its biodiversity,...
Conservation in the Internet Age
Threats and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Since the earliest days of our nation, new communications and transportation networks have enabled vast changes in how and where Americans live and work. Transcontinental railroads and telegraphs helped to open the West; mass media and interstate highways paved the way for suburban migration. In our...
Diagnosing Wild Species Harvest
Resource Use and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Diagnosing Wild Species Harvest bridges gaps of knowledge fragmented among scientific disciplines as it addresses this multifaceted phenomenon that is simultaneously global and local. The authors emphasize the interwoven nature of issues specific to the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural realms...
Bat Conservation
Global evidence for the effects of interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of bats. The authors worked with an international group of bat experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit bats.
For each intervention, the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The book is the first comprehensive analysis of the macroecology and geobotany of endemic vascular plants with case-studies and analyses from different regions in the world. Endemism is a pre-extinction phenomenon. Endemics are threatened with extinction. Due to international nature conservation policies...
Evidence-based Conservation
Lessons from the Lower Mekong
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There is a considerable gap between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. Science is often failing to inform the practice of conservation, which remains largely experience-based. The main reason is the poor accessibility...
The Conservation Revolution
Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
An anti-capitalist manifesto for conservation
Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the...
Butterfly Conservation in North America
Efforts to help save our charismatic microfauna
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
The book addresses this critical need by providing a straightforward and easy to read primer to key elements of at-risk butterfly conservation programs including captive husbandry, organism reintroduction, habitat restoration, population monitoring, recovery planning and cooperative programs.
Impacts...
The Odyssey of KP2
An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist's Fight to Save a Species
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the most endangered marine mammal species in U.S. waters, Kauai Pup...
Green Japan
Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.
Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic...