Applied Ecology

How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeares plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current environmental crises? This is t...

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.Theobroma cacao is an importan...

This handbook provides an overview of physical, chemical and biological methods used to analyze soils and plant tissue using an ecosystem perspecti...

As the Gulf of Mexico recovers from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural resource managers face the challenge of understanding the impacts of t...

The goal of sustainable development is to meet the socio-economic and environmental objectives without comprising the needs of future generations. ...

'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we ...

Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade...

A human being consists of a mammalian component and a multiplicity of microbes, collectively referred to as the microbiota or microbiome, with whic...

Stewarding the Sound uses different perspectives to build awareness of the wealth and fragility of this ecosystem by balancing economic and social ...

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines. They grew from minor sciences, with little status in 1900, and now occ...

Published in 1974, this book provides a personal, firsthand account of Carl Alwin Schenck's work and the founding of the Biltmore Forest School in ...

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries...

A fascinating bookfar-reaching, deeply researched, and probing. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyOutstandingly well-researched and dee...

'Simply wonderful.' - BEN FOGLE'Kate's book has the warmth and calming effect of a log fire and a glass of wine. Unknit your brow and let go. It's ...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the As...

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic...

The lives and habitats of two majestic bird species are shared through striking space, aerial, and surface photographs to artfully convey the fragi...

The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryThe various species of new world blackbirds, often intermingled...

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature. This book ta...

Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demo...

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling an...

The first edition of the widely praised Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, published in 2005, led to numerous new marine pr...

Written by Chris Maser, one of the architects of the sustainability movement, Interactions of Land, Ocean and Humans: A Global Perspective explores...

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the ...

Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecolog...

Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of capital, departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills o...

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operati...