Conservation of the Environment

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their gras...

While tropical rainforests have received much conservation attention and support for their protection, temperate and boreal rainforests have been l...

Project Planning and Management for Ecological Restoration addresses a problem that is the reason many current restoration projects are not as effe...

Since its establishment as a federally protected wilderness in 1964, the Boundary Waters has become one of our nations most valuableand most freque...

The Krause Ranch is not a normal Hill Country landscapeit has bottomless holes, dinosaur tracks, high limestone river cliffs where golden eagles ne...

Project Planning and Management for Ecological Restoration addresses a problem that is the reason many current restoration projects are not as effe...

In the tradition of Douglas Chadwick's best-selling adventure memoir, The Wolverine Way, Tracking Gobi Grizzlies creates a portrait of these rarest...

This Open Access book Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders is concerned with the persistence of bordering in ocean space, and the possibilities that m...

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management in...

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, ...

Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the a...

Hailed as a Thoreau for the twenty-first century, MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spen...

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at...

Dieses Buch berichtet über ein ebenso spannendes wie aktuelles Thema an der Schnittstelle zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Grundlagenforschung und ...

The extraction of mineral resources provides the raw materials necessary to produce the products and technologies on which the global economy depen...

Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources in the Appalachian Basin is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council...

The United States' tradition of conserving fish, wildlife, habitats, and cultural resources dates to the mid-19th century. States have long sought ...

Gulf Coast communities and natural resources suffered extensive direct and indirect damage as a result of the largest accidental oil spill in US hi...

In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1...

Explores frackings dual impact on settler colonial culture and sustainability Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extrac...

In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geologica...

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, ...

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at...

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management in...

Motivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging effects of industrialization. In...

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them.Despite...

Moist-soil wetlands are seasonally flooded areas that produce early-succession plant communities of grasses, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. M...

In Wilder Ways, Donald C. Jackson takes readers on a journey into the deep and very personal connections that can develop between people and wild p...

Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flo...

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, econ...

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light ...

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators ...

This book dives into the surging crisis of waste generation in developing nations, notably India, fuelled by the population boom, industrialization...