Conservation of the Environment

Fascinating and impressive. Thomas Gunton, Director of Resource and Environmental Planning, Simon Fraser University and former Deputy Minister of E...

This book provides new research in the study on seed banks. Chapter One begins with an overview of seed bank research in Central European grassland...

Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biolo...

When George Bristol first saw the mountains surrounding East Glacier, Montana, in the early summer of 1961, he was, in his own words, awed to his d...

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2021 for Writing on Global Conservation Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While t...

Plant leaves collectively represent the largest above-ground surface area of plant material in virtually all environments. Their optical properties...

Food how its grown, how its shared makes us who we are. This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. Accor...

South Africa is renowned for its wildlife and environmental conservation in iconic national parks such as the Kruger, one of the world's first form...

For the first time, this volume presents Vernon Bailey's correspondences and field notes spanning the majority of his life and career, collected an...

People who flyfish know that a favorite river bend, a secluded spot in moving waters, can feel like homea place you know intimately and intuitively...

Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides,...

Formed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Oconee Rivers, the Altamaha is the largest free-flowing river on the East Coast and drains its third-l...

Millions of people know a little bit about efforts to save the whooping crane, thanks to the movie Fly Away Home and annual news stories about ultr...

The Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are home to some of the most important remaining American wilderness areas, preserved because of citizens ...

Fredrick Swanson tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. As supervisor of Montana's Bitterr...

To keep the land in the family . . . To operate the land profitably . . . To leave the land better than they found it . . . Each year, Sand County ...

This book provides selected authorship on anthropogenic impacts caused by arsenic, lead, chromium and other pollutants and contaminants emanating f...

Hidden high in the Sierra de Guatemala mountain range of northeastern Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud forest o...

Discover the wonder of bees (and other stripey insects) and how to help them survive. In this little book of bees, wasps, hoverflies and more, disc...

'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does' John BergerWhy rebel?Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than ...

The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate changeWhen students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book ...

'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency' Tim Spector'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written...destin...

'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order ...