Conservation of the Environment

In 2010, a team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern P...

What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andr...

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist la...

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe. Struggling with the most s...

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological...

Visually rich, up-to-date, and authoritative, "The Atlas of Global Conservation" is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural wor...

Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of findin...

Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thir...

Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released "The China Syndrome", featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TV news crew who witness what appears...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

From the leader and spokeswoman of the antinuclear movement comes a revised and updated edition of this groundbreaking, widely acclaimed classic. E...

The Environmental Protection Agency is a young and dynamic federal agency facing the challenges of modern environmental protection. The political c...

Sypolt has compiled the first comprehensive national bibliography since 1943 of the Civilian Conservation Corps— of which he himself is a former me...

Controversy surrounding environmental issues is not a recent development in American history. Since the time of the early settlers, issues concerni...

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presid...

The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. In this book, Susan Clark tells the story of subsequent efforts...

A concerned activist takes the conservation movement to task and shows us what we stand to gain when conservation succeeds Critics of environmental...

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for re...

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing th...

In his Ark of the Broken Covenant, Kunich showed that Earth's species are concentrated in 25 zones of ecological significance known as biodiversity...

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, over consuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and inva...

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invas...

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, Thirlmere, with its placid sheen, surrounding evergreens, and apparent lack of pollution or develo...

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing th...

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, env...

You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentali...

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands t...

Explores the complex relationship humans have with the environment. It is one of both responsibility—including the sustainable or unsustainable man...

Plastic plays a vital role in today's world but has become increasingly problematic. Plastics and Microplastics: A Reference Handbook discusses the...

An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy   Winner of the Har...

A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first ti...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fabl...

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a...

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits a...

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits a...

Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeo...

A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer w...

Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental ...

In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, tod...

An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to ...

A captivating analysis of the past, present, and future of northeastern forests and the forces that have shaped them  “Charlie Canham takes us on a...

San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban...

Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation is the first practical and comprehensive manual for creating, implementing, or improving na...

We’ve been “saving the planet” for decades now and the crises have only got worse. Many of us—environmentalists included—continue to live deeply un...