Conservation of the Environment

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...

Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons an...

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to disc...

Rapid population growth, limited water availability, climate variability and environmental pollution together cause a significant challenge to prov...

Zoo animals as a population are a diverse array of species from all around the globe. When managed in captivity, it is important that key aspects o...

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity have economic, p...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

A fascinating bookfar-reaching, deeply researched, and probing. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyOutstandingly well-researched and dee...

Womanism Rising concludes Layli Maparyans three-book exploration of womanist studies. The collection showcases new work by emerging womanist author...

Womanism Rising concludes Layli Maparyans three-book exploration of womanist studies. The collection showcases new work by emerging womanist author...

How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability As marine...

How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability   As mari...

Its falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. Its in our food, our clothes, and our homes. Its microplastic and itseverywhereincluding our ow...

While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twent...

As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the worldfrom climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governmentssoci...

This guide aims to promote wider awareness of the rich heritage of England's water meadows. It is intended primarily for nature conservation group...

The last decade saw dramatic concern for forest problems. The future decades will witness an even more dramatic interest. Certification of forests ...

Conservation of Marine Birds is the first book to outline and synthesize the myriad of threats faced by one of the most imperiled groups of birds o...

This book articulates the traditional Japanese concept of conservation, called Satoyama, for effective management of natures goods and services at ...

China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered...

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. They add...