Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Future of Conservation in America
A Chart for Rough Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America’s natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenges facing the conservation movement are both immediate...
by Saska Petrova
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected. This book, therefore, examines questions of local participation at the nature-society nexus within national parks in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The post-1990...
Nature's Burdens
Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a...
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Catalyst For Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Despite his status as a scion of one of the wealthiest and mfamous families in the United States and an enormously successful businessman in his own right, Laurance S. Rockefeller is unknown to all but a few Americans. Yet while he has been neither Vice Presidnor Governor nor chairman of the world's...
Conservation Psychology
Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being.
This is the new edition of what is now the leading textbook in conservation psychology,...
Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Biodiversity
Analytical Considerations for Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Achieving environmental conservation and socioeconomic development is a challenging endeavor, particularly when we do not have the necessary tools to develop a clear understanding of the dynamic relationship between indigenous communities and biodiversity in tropical forests. Theories and models oftentimes...
Conservation Directory 2015
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The authority on natural resource use and management agencies around the world.
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2015 is a great resource for budding...
Conservation Directory 2017
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2017 is a great resource for budding environmental activists and scholars alike who want to achieve a peaceful, equitable,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation,...
by Otis Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy explained to him by members of the Boone and Crockett Club. This didn't take long, as he was only asked to sign a few papers setting aside federal timberland. But from such small moments...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book enhances understanding of the various human and organizational behaviors...
Contesting Conservation
Shahtoosh Trade and Forest Management in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
This book explores today’s changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes – the ban on shahtoosh trade...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book provides insights into various aspects of marine faunal communities in India, which are extremely diverse due to the geomorphologic and climatic variations along the Indian coasts. Consisting of 30 chapters by experts in their respective fields, it is divided into two parts:
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The Science of Conservation Planning
Habitat Conservation Under The Endangered Species Act
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Broad-scale conservation of habitats is increasingly being recognized as a more effective means of protecting species and landscapes than single-species preservation efforts. While interest in the approach has grown tremendously in recyears, it remains controversial and the science behind it has yet...