Conservation of the Environment

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the ...

Bioethanol and Natural Resources: Substrates, Chemistry and Engineered Systems provides a comprehensive review of feedstocks, physiochemical and bi...

Drawing on information from the TIPAs database, The Important Plant Areas of Mozambique includes colour maps and photographs, site descriptions and...

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...