Conservation of the Environment

National parks are widely revered as Americas best ideathey are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American p...

The purpose of this Good Practice Advice note is to provide information on good practice to assist local authorities, planning and other consultant...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the better known and most successful of the New Deal programs following the Great Depression. The causes...

Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever - into exurbs and boomburbs miles from anywhere, in big houses ...

What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when...

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiver...

Making Nature Whole is a seminal volume that presents an in-depth history of the field of ecological restoration as it has developed over the last ...

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous e...

Anthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area....

In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But ...

The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 causing the l...

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdo...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores ...

A wild and gripping novel about one woman's quest to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands at any cost.Inti Flynn arrives in the Scottish Hi...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around...

Save the earths most precious resource while also saving yourself money. Laura Allen provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficie...

CITIZEN SCIENTIST is award-winning environmental journalist and author Mary Ellen Hannibal's story of becoming a citizen scientist - and finding mo...

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for ...