Conservation of the Environment

The relationship between humans and mountain lions has always been uneasy. A century ago, mountain lions were vilified as a threat to livestock and...

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believednaive...

An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justiceIn 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash...

Deciding what user impacts are natural or unnatural has inspired much debate. Biophysically, moose cause similar kinds of soil and vegetation impac...

Climate change, visualized. Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas ...

By re-imagining how we plan and use our gardens, we can all do our bit to support local wildlife, improve our health and help tackle the climate cr...

The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vaultand the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agriculture: Now updated with a new chapter ...

Community-based wildlife conservation is promoted as a win-win solution for wildlife and people that protects biodiversity while improving the econ...

'The Patron Saint of Conservation' Sir David Attenborough'Peter Scott was a huge influence on my childhood...Later on in life I had the good fortun...

This historical biography examines Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground Railroad, her training at...

This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first ...

Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, creat...

Make your work in the field more efficient and productive with the how-to of location intelligence.A biologist in a rain forest making observations...

Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their partys tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped...

'This book presents a salient truth: every investor - no matter how large or small - has the power to help address our climate crisis and build a ...

As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and ...

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after d...

Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant resins to maintain their colonies. The chemical components...

Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled...

A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts West...

Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, pe...

Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature AwardA Bloomberg View Must-Read Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Ye...

Why do Americas cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our relationship with animals.Americans o...

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for ...

A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet Women are disproportion...

What if running in beautiful places was paradoxically contributing to the destruction of those precious environments and causing irreversible globa...

This unique work is the first reference that provides detailed descriptions of the fully developed larvae of the Odonata suborder Anisoptera, inclu...

Equal parts memoir, adventure tale, and call to action, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans has become a classic of environmental literature, at on...

**The number-one bestseller**The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life On the West Coast of the South Island, past d...