Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Captain Paul Watson
Interview With a Pirate
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist.
Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently...
Embattled River
The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern environmentalism...
Management Planning for Nature Conservation
A Theoretical Basis & Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The first edition of Mike Alexander’s Management Planning for Nature Conservation, brought a new dimension to the modern literature on conservation management. This second edition, a significant enhancement of the original, deals with the development both, conceptual and practical, of adaptive management...
Staying Maasai?
Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2009
The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in...
by Justina Ray
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental conservation: Is the conservation of large carnivores in ecosystems that evolved with their presence equivalto the conservation...
Nature's Fortune
How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What is nature worth? The answer to this question-which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms-is revolutionizing the way we do business.
In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, temporal and complexity scales that are involved in large-scale conservation efforts. Problems in large-scale conservation require navigating an intermixture...
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...
Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution Almati, Kazakhstan 16–19 September 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution" was held in Almaty on September 16-19, 2002. Experts from Azerbaijan, Denmark, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan and the IAEA have participated...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Biodiversity Conservation Challenges for the Future is a multidisciplinary book, linking topics on biodiversity, conservation, food and nutrition, organic farming, food security and sustainable management. The book summarizes the key ideas for meeting the challenges of biodiversity conservation. It...
Periphyton
Functions and Application in Environmental Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Periphyton: Functions and Application in Environmental Remediation presents a systematic overview of a wide variety of periphyton functions and applications in environmental remediation, providing readers with an understanding of the biological/ecological features of periphyton, the methodology of...
by William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Nancy Ockendon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains...
Seasons at Selah
The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In 1969, J. David Bamberger bought what he described as “the sorriest piece of land” in the Texas Hill Country for the specific purpose of restoring the degraded landscape. Today, Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve is one of the largest habitat restoration projects in the state—5,500 acres—and...
by Clive Hambler, Susan M. Canney
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of conservation...