Conservation of the Environment

The proceedings publication of the International Conference on Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainability (ITAS 2023) captures the es...

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earths climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and ...

This book introduces the complex world of carbon dynamics within forest ecosystems, particularly in boreal zones, while also incorporating findings...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotlan...

The classic reference on wilderness stewardship and protection, revised and fully updated.For thirty years the classic textbook Wilderness Manageme...

Environmental sustainability is a major issue for us all. In this extensively updated edition, Martin and Margot Hodson consider eight of the key c...

In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, resulting in signific...

The American West is often portrayed as a place of rugged, unending landscapes presenting us with boundless opportunities. But the land is more fra...

The American West is often portrayed as a place of rugged, unending landscapes presenting us with boundless opportunities. But the land is more fra...

When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tin...

How do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.Fire is an essential part of ...

From almost her first day, Sally knew she did not want the Iver Nature Study Centre (INSC) in Buckinghamshire to be just an ordinary centre. She wa...

As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role in several hum...

New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City ...

While the public is generally aware of the use of hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resource development onshore, it is less familiar with th...

Sediments, ice, corals, and trees are just some of the natural storehouses of information that help tell the complicated history of Earth's climate...