Conservation of the Environment

For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests a...

In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experie...

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the ...

A celebrated biologists manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change  Jo Handelsman is a n...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provide...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provide...

This is the largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafl...

In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems thro...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems thro...

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sus...

Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pac...

In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

America's national parks provide a wealth of experiences to millions of people every year. What visitors seelandscapes, wildlife, cultural activiti...

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper soun...

A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990s, as the region shifted to Chinese sovereignty, Ecologies of Comparison describes h...

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly movin...

The Sierra Nevada, Californias iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricultu...

'Argues persuasively . . . nothing less than eye-opening' Financial TimesCan we really restore the earths atmosphere within our lifetime?Whether th...

The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. ...