Conservation of the Environment

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its ...

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problem...

Where mountains meet ocean in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago, white skeletons of dead yellow cedar trees stand prominently amidst a verdant landsca...

This volume interrogates the interplay of knowledge, nature, and value. Emphasizing the relationship between power and knowledge in the production ...

From the author of Together. Imagine a world without trees. A world that is in many ways like our world, but where magnificent canopies, tree cli...

While some of the historical events we recount have been largely forgotten by the public and largely unexamined by scholars, they reflect an unders...

Focusing on so much more than plastic pollution, this ahead-of-the curve book exposes the extensive damage being done to the oceans that most of us...

In his third book, The Dignity Doctrine: Pursuing Rational Relations in an Irrational World, award-winning author Mark C. Coleman lays out a pragma...

Not a Place to Visit is a new collection of illustrated essays by WILD MAN cartoonist T Edward Bak. Exploring themes of social and ecological flux ...

Primates are a group of animals more like us than any other. They are beautiful, enigmatic, often misunderstood. They are our biological family. An...

National Parks are Britain's breathing spaces - protected areas enjoyed by the millions of visitors attracted every year by their tranquillity, bea...

In The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland, Clifton Bain gives a personal and passionate account of the human interventions that have shaped the ancient ...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.John Muir is kn...

Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson s innovative ecocultural com...

When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to resp...

In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in the city of P...

Artist Norman Thelwell is best known for his cartoons depicting plump, petulant ponies and their young riders, but The Effluent Society shows anoth...

An incredible read. While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. MAUDE BARLOW, activ...

Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and ...

The flame of Mother Earth s cauldron has gone out as the climate crisis and resulting social chaos have gotten worse. But, it's not too late. Rev. ...

A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

A Force for Nature is a biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Ar...

A Guide on Climate Optimism and Environmental Sustainability Zahra Biabani, a climate activist focused on hope and action, wrote this book to help ...

The Laguna Madre is the only hypersaline coastal lagoon on the North American continent and only one of five worldwide. The lagoon is renowned for ...

The Storm Leopard is an alchemic blend of travel and nature writing that explores the primary dilemma of the 21st century - the conflict of modern ...

Wildlife expert Eanna Ni Lamhna takes us on a tour of all things to do with our wonderful natural world: from a celebration of our fascinating bird...