Conservation of the Environment

An inspiring reminder of the incredible resource that is our public lands. Brendan Leonard, author of The Camping Life and Surviving the Great Outd...

Celebrates the power of trees to oxygenate the planet, purify water and air, lower city temperatures, provide habitat, nurture the soul, and provid...

In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linki...

Glass and Glazing looks at the conservation of one of the most important building materials, and its use in windows, roofing and walling. It consid...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocit...

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of...

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of...

Details profound examples of lifes resilience and makes a convincing case that the natural world still has a lot worth fighting for. Paul Greenberg...

ICE Manual of Blue-Green Infrastructure draws together an exceptional breadth of material to provide a complete practical reference on Blue-Green I...

As the popularity of the national parks grows, so do the challenges of visiting and managing them. This innovative book uses crowdsourcing - postin...

An exciting foray into Earth's inland waters, the remarkable species they contain, and the conservation challenges of protecting them.When we call ...

Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming g...

Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming g...

What you eat doesnt just impact you it shapes the world around you. Our endless food choices come at a steep cos...

What you eat doesnt just impact you it shapes the world around you. Our endless food choices come at a steep cos...

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marg...

In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and a...

This is an ecology textbook focused on key principles that underpin research and management at the landscape scale. It covers (1) agents of pattern...

This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses of sp...

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the major issues related to the conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan regi...

Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the worlds smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from ...

Restoration ecology is a vital tool to mitigate the crisis caused by the global destruction of biodiversity, one of the most powerful existential t...

This book examines urban water ecosystem management and restoration through selected case studies in Asia and Africa. Employing a socioecological a...

The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising ...

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions...