Conservation of the Environment

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...