Conservation of the Environment

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 ...

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

Bioethanol and Natural Resources: Substrates, Chemistry and Engineered Systems provides a comprehensive review of feedstocks, physiochemical and bi...

Drawing on information from the TIPAs database, The Important Plant Areas of Mozambique includes colour maps and photographs, site descriptions and...