Conservation of the Environment

Over the last century, the Mediterranean Sea has experienced significant alterations due to natural processes and human activities. Some key change...

Stocking hatchery-produced fish has been a standard component of fisheries management for over 100 years. This book discusses the production of hat...

Jack Ward Thomas, an eminent wildlife biologist and U.S. Forest Service career scientist, was drafted in the late 1980s to head teams of scientists...

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

This book addresses the climate risk influencing biodiversity globally and discusses the sustainable use of biological diversity and its legal impl...

Humans have influenced the landscapes and forests throughout the temperate and boreal zones for millennia. Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Fore...

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scient...

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the ...

Learn about the wildlife of the Bay Area from a lifelong protector of endangered species, and enjoy the wild ride.Jeff Miller's quirky guide to the...

How the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to ...

'He does write beautifully, especially of his greatest love - our wild birds ... On The Marsh is a delightful read.' Christopher Hart, Daily MailHo...

This book is the first comprehensive reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all the worl...

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthro...

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures o...

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much bett...

Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural ...

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks,...

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswel...

Pakistan is a geographical gem-a land with the greatest change in elevation within any sovereign state on earth, from 0 metres at Sonmiani Bay to 8...

This is methods/tools textbook that covers the fundamental tasks in research and management at the landscape scale. It brings together tools from a...

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction o...

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction o...

Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing b...

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But...

Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing mil...

In 2023, the Supreme Court made one of its most devastating rulings in environmental history. By narrowing the legaldefinition of waters of the Uni...

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

In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they ha...

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?We are u...

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleevs periodic table of elements, bringing together elemental ...

A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movementand an inspiring prescription for change.Something's gone badly a...

This book represents the culmination of more than four years of work by many rhino experts, primarily from Africa, Asia, the United States, and Eur...