Conservation of the Environment

Providing students with a solid understanding of core ecological concepts while explaining how ecologists raise and answer real-world questions, th...

Henry James called John Burroughs (18371921) a more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau. Walt Whitman in turn extolled Burroughs as...

A practical and inspiring approach to tackling our environmental crisis, from a master spiritual teacher. We can heal our earth by choosing a simpl...

A practical and inspiring approach to tackling our environmental crisis, from a master spiritual teacher. We can heal our earth by choosing a simpl...

The inspiring people and grassroots organizations that are on the front lines of the battle to save the planet As the world's scientists have come ...

Addressing ecologists, legislators, lawyers, and industrialists alike, Ruth Patrick asks what has been accomplished with the millions of dollars sp...

Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeo...

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

When was the best time to panic about the varying crises facing humanity? Twenty years ago. But the next best time? Now? In line with other conside...

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

Separate Fact from Fiction with This Fun, Fascinating GuideWe need bats to eat mosquitoes, pollinate plants, and more. Karen Krebbs has been studyi...

San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban...

Christmas Island. The Russian Arctic. Argentine Patagonia. Japan. Cuba. British Columbia. Dylan Tomine takes us to the far reaches of the planet ...

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably inten...

Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? focuses attention on the byproducts of growth and development in the state of Michigan and describes wh...

This is the first publication dedicated to the flora of the Republic of Sudan and the recently seceded Republic of South Sudan. This up to date com...

The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most modern concepts and tools needed to perform prospective and retrospective eco...

Rhodolith beds form biogenic reefs, oases of high biodiversity in sedimentary seabed environments. The rhodoliths are foundation species, which pro...

An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher  ...

Surviving climate chaos needs communities and ecosystems able to cope with near-random impacts. Their strength depends upon their integrity, so pre...

A new edition of a definitive history of American environmental policy, focusing on policies from 1970 to the Trump administration and their histor...

Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global chan...

The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In ...

Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday livesthe air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we usethe way the discou...

Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed t...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or aga...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or aga...

The authors of Re-Indigenizing Ecological Consciousness and the Interconnectedness to Indigenous Identities share the diversity and complexities of...

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation  It is impressive how the book manages to be so...

How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis...

For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests a...

In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experie...

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the ...

A celebrated biologists manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change  Jo Handelsman is a n...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provide...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provide...

This is the largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafl...

In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems thro...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems thro...

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sus...