Conservation of the Environment

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures o...

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much bett...

Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural ...

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks,...

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswel...

Pakistan is a geographical gem-a land with the greatest change in elevation within any sovereign state on earth, from 0 metres at Sonmiani Bay to 8...

This is methods/tools textbook that covers the fundamental tasks in research and management at the landscape scale. It brings together tools from a...

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction o...

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction o...

Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing b...

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But...

Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing mil...

In 2023, the Supreme Court made one of its most devastating rulings in environmental history. By narrowing the legaldefinition of waters of the Uni...

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators ...

In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they ha...

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?We are u...

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleevs periodic table of elements, bringing together elemental ...