Conservation of the Environment

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...

Aimed at both local authorities and community groups, this guidance is designed to provide clear, useful advice on when and how to transfer heritag...

This book reports on a study that assessed the effectiveness of irrigation technologies and management practices in the Third World. Using a manage...

This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently re...

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, a...

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophic...

Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environme...

The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries. The establishment and management of transboundary marine prot...

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, ass...

Settled Asbestos Dust Sampling and Analysis compiles the most significant data on asbestos in settled dust. This ready reference presents an analys...

The year 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Land Act in South Africa which legalised the violent dispossession and alienation of the Afr...

The first edition of the widely praised Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, published in 2005, led to numerous new marine pr...

This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primar...

Irrigation Development in Africa: Lessons of Experience is a veritable encyclopedia of information on African irrigation. It describes a significan...

Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath th...

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weathe...

Within leisure studies there is a growing awareness and intensifying conscience about the potential environmental threat posed by the continued and...

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, a...

Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in t...

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Vol. 1 contains the contributions in presented at the XV International Forum-Contest of St...

Presents current methods for controlling air pollution generated at stationary industrial sources and provides complete coverage of control options...

Key Features:Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international lea...

During the early development and throughout the short history of green/conservation criminology, limited attention has been directed toward quantit...

This title was first published in 2001. Providing a new methodology to analyze the fundamental interrelationship between the sustainable management...

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earths climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and ...

Environmental Sustainability and Global Change: Forests, Agriculture, and Soils vis à vis Human Disturbance offers an integrated approach to the so...

An award-winning authors powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in Americas food system Its well known that ou...

The preservation of waterlogged organic materials has transformed our understanding of the historic environment. Their study involves the collabora...

Forgotten Grasslands of the South is the study of one of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. In a seamless bl...

The practice of ecological restoration, firmly grounded in the science of restoration ecology, provides governments, organisations, and landowners ...

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the ...

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have...

Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants...

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from ...