Conservation of the Environment

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

Separate Fact from Fiction with This Fun, Fascinating GuideWe need bats to eat mosquitoes, pollinate plants, and more. Karen Krebbs has been studyi...

San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban...

Christmas Island. The Russian Arctic. Argentine Patagonia. Japan. Cuba. British Columbia. Dylan Tomine takes us to the far reaches of the planet ...

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably inten...

Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? focuses attention on the byproducts of growth and development in the state of Michigan and describes wh...

This is the first publication dedicated to the flora of the Republic of Sudan and the recently seceded Republic of South Sudan. This up to date com...

The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most modern concepts and tools needed to perform prospective and retrospective eco...

Rhodolith beds form biogenic reefs, oases of high biodiversity in sedimentary seabed environments. The rhodoliths are foundation species, which pro...

An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher  ...

Surviving climate chaos needs communities and ecosystems able to cope with near-random impacts. Their strength depends upon their integrity, so pre...

A new edition of a definitive history of American environmental policy, focusing on policies from 1970 to the Trump administration and their histor...

Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global chan...

The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In ...

Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday livesthe air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we usethe way the discou...

Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed t...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or aga...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or aga...

The authors of Re-Indigenizing Ecological Consciousness and the Interconnectedness to Indigenous Identities share the diversity and complexities of...

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation  It is impressive how the book manages to be so...

How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis...