Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Miranda Schreurs, Elim Papadakis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Human beings have been concerned about nature and their place in it for millennia. Disquiet about the consequences of human action on the natural environment date back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The efforts of the green movement can be traced back to the 19th century. In this period, individuals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connected conservation...
Confronting Environments
Local Understanding in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental...
Biodiversity and the Precautionary Principle
Risk, Uncertainty and Practice in Conservation and Sustainable Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Great uncertainty typically surrounds decisions and management actions in the conservation of biodiversity and natural resource management, and yet there are risks of serious and irreversible harm for both biodiversity and the humans that rely on it. The precautionary principle arguably underlies...
Growing Greener
Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Growing Greener is an illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions while preserving green space and creating open space networks. Randall Arendt explains how to design residential developments that maximize land conservation without reducing overall building density, thus...
by Tim Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
A dam proposal sparked the first great conservation battle in the United States when John Muir fought to safeguard Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Since then, people have worked to preserve free-flowing rivers from Florida to Alaska, and in doing so, they have changed the way natural...
Across the Great Divide
Explorations In Collaborative Conservation And The American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Amid the policy gridlock that characterizes menvironmental debates, a new conservation movemhas emerged. Known as “collaborative conservation,” it emphasizes local participation, sustainability, and inclusion of the disempowered, and focuses on voluntary compliance and consrather than legal and...
Place-Based Conservation
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough...
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty
Vol. 1: Renewing the Conservation Promise
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of issues surrounding the Endangered Species Act, with a specific focus on the act's actual implementation record over the past thirty years. The result of a unique, multi-year collaboration among stakeholder groups...
Forests for the People
The Story of America's Eastern National Forests
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Forests for the People tells one of the mextraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful...
Conservation
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The need to protect nature has never been so pressing. As unprecedented environmental challenges threaten to wipe out many of the planet’s species, there is a battle against time to formulate new ways of defending nature. Jepson and Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation from inspiring successes...
You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition
A Handbook for Environmental Awareness, Conservation and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Finally—a hopeful book which empowers us to make the choices we need to make...not out of fear but out of love for ourselves, our Earth, and each other.
In its long-awaited revised edition, You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition provides even more reasons and ways to pay attention to our...
An Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve...
Conservation Management of Freshwater Habitats
Lakes, rivers and wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book the authors have applied research knowledge to the solution of practical problems facing wildlife conservation in freshwater habitats. Subjects covered include: evaluation of the conservation interest of sites; practical protection and management of freshwater habitats; species conservation.