Conservation of the Environment

Climate and Conservation presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge projects focused on climate change adaptation - regional-scale...

WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2023 From the author of Addlands, and feat...

In the fight against climate change, the world cannot wait for some hoped-for perfect solution in the future. The crisis is upon us, and we need ac...

Our love of gorillas has long been reflected in literature and filmsTarzan, King Kong, The Jungle Book, Gorillas in the Mistand their popularity co...

The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disneys ski resort development and launched a new...

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three orga...

Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and peopleYoung countercultural back-to-the-land settl...

In This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone env...

In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environm...

Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022 Winner, Global Dimension Teachers Choice Award 2023 Shortlisted, BERA...

The transformational possibilities of everyday hygiene and care practices   In order to mitigate the worst forecasts of climate change, many of us...

The New York Times Editors' ChoiceNPR Science Friday Book Club SelectionAn intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver-the wonderfull...

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Go...

A fascinating look at one of the greatest conservation success stories of the modern era: the wildly popular, unique, and thrilling raptor, the Osp...

Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisiveand insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadianhistorian Joan Sang...

An Post Irish Book Award Winner'An inspiring vision' Manchán Magan'The stories are absorbing, the writing charismatic and the ideas thought-provoki...

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of t...

Hilltops surrounded by farmland in southern Wisconsin turn out to be the eroded remnants of an ancient archipelago. An island in the Yellow Sea whe...

As environmental deterioration became a major political issue near the end of the twentieth century, activists in Nova Scotia stood together to def...

From podiums on international stages to mainstream media coverage, from crowds of youth marching in streets, to social media feeds, everywhere we l...

No matter your space, this planet-friendly introduction to gardening will get you growing your own fruit, veg and flowers in no time!Gardening expe...

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also ...

An essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.John Nichols, The NationAn exploration of bo...

Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural life. From cell...

The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in...

What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on ...

Its falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. Its in our food, our clothes, and our homes. Its microplastic and its everywhereincluding our o...

Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian C...

The second volume of this book series synthesizes nomenclature, systematics, and descriptions of North American mammal species. Clear, simple and i...

Researchers working on natural resource management issues in human-influenced landscapes need to be able to elicit both biophysical and socio-econo...

Researchers working on natural resource management issues in human-influenced landscapes need to be able to elicit both biophysical and socio-econo...

Managing solid waste is one of the biggest challenges in urban areas around the world. Technologically advanced economies generate vast amounts of ...

The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not untouched or wild as some have recorded, but rather the resul...

The Great Salt Lake is deeply tied to the identity and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As Latter-day Saints settled in ...

The Great Salt Lake ecosystem is on the verge of collapse due to unsustainably large water diversions, the ongoing megadrought, and climate change....

Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corr...

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environm...

A powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation.One of the Best Indie Books of 2023, Kirkus Reviews What doe...