Conservation of the Environment

Aboriginal people in Canada have long struggled to regain control over their traditional forest lands. There have been significant gains in the que...

Pioneer, activist, environmentalist, poet. Ethel Haythornthwaite is virtually unknown, even in her home town of Sheffield the UKs outdoor city ye...

Temagamis Tangled Wild traces the processes and power relationships through which the Temagami area of northeastern Ontario has become emblematic o...

Addressing a topic of growing and vital concern, this book asks us to reconsider how we think about the natural world and our place in it. Steven B...

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald ...

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald ...

Model development is of vital importance for understanding and management of ecological processes. Identifying the complex relationships between ec...

Originally published in 2007, Ecological Restoration has become one of the seminal books in this quickly developing field. This completely revised ...

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

What we make and buy is a major indicator of society's collective priorities. Among twenty-four key trends, Vital Signs Volume 22 explores signific...

Restoration ecology is a young field that integrates theory and knowledge from a range of disciplines, including the biological, physical, and soci...

Environmental Problem-Solving' presents short excerpts from carefully selected readings, expert commentaries on those readings, assignments, and th...

What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever grea...

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representat...

In our increasingly polarised society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points - for...

Mosses have a spectacular diversity of beautiful and surprising forms. They are nearly always, what we as humans would consider, small; but they pl...

The United States spends approximately $5 billion each year on federal programs designed to conserve natural resources and address the environmenta...

Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly two hundred years. Once life-supporting, the waterway now known as Pla...

In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large nu...

Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has ...

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

This book addresses one of todays most urgent issues: the loss of wildlife and habitat, which together constitute an ecological crisis. Combining s...

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas. By 2030, up to 90% of the global human population will live in cities and the glob...

The perfect guide for any gardener looking for inspiration on how to create a pollinator-friendly garden all year round.Pollinators are essential t...

The transition to renewable energy has spurred many efforts to scale up the U.S. portfolio of efficient clean energy resources, including the devel...

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a...

Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.   Many people worry that we're losing genetic dive...

A lavishly illustrated guide to the seaweed families of the worldSeaweeds are astoundingly diverse. They're found along the shallows of beaches and...

How grateful I am for the chance to join this generous authors lyrical, intimate, and revelatory conversations with birds! Sy Montgomery, author of...