Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Genetic Diversity and Erosion in Plants
Indicators and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Genetic erosion is the loss of genetic diversity within a species. It can happen very quickly, due to catastrophic events, or changes in land use leading to habitat loss. But it can also occur more gradually and remain unnoticed for a long time. One of the main causes of genetic erosion is the replacement...
Ex Situ Plant Conservation
Supporting Species Survival In The Wild
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Faced with widespread and devastating loss of biodiversity in wild habitats, scientists have developed innovative strategies for studying and protecting targeted plant and animal species in "off-site" facilities such as botanic gardens and zoos. Such ex situ work is an increasingly important componof...
Alaska's Brooks Range
The Ultimate Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1992
* Explores both geologic and human history of the region
* Includes a sampling of literature inspired by the Brooks Range
* Examines past, present, and future conservation efforts in this extraordinary place
Not just the ultimate mountains for their northernmost location on the North American...
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...
Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs
Bird Conservation Comes Out of Its Shell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Before modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation "oology" and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs: the bird's name, the species reference number,...
by George D. Davis, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1993
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
George Davis devoted his MacArthur fellowship to mapping the watershed of Lake Baikal, the largest fresh-water source on earth. Using zoning...
Global Visions, Local Landscapes
A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global is one aspect of the local, to the extent that...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is a collection of reports presented at the International NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainaible Development of the Black Sea Region. The seminar was held at Batumi - Kobuleti, Georgia, on the Black Sea during October...
Drafting a Conservation Blueprint
A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Drafting a Conservation Blueprint lays out for the first time in book form a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions. In an engaging and accessible style, the author explains how to develop a regional conservation plan and offers experience-based guidance...
Game Changer
Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa’s Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa’s megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed...
by J. Robert Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
We drive cars with "Save the Whales" bumper stickers, buy aerosol sprays that advertise "no chlorofluorocarbons," and wear T-shirts made from organically grown cotton. All of these "earth friendly" choices and products convince us that we are "thinking globally,...
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, logging...
Slopovers
Fire Surveys of the Mid-American Oak Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence.
The Mid-American oak woodlands were...