Conservation of the Environment

In 2010, a team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern P...

What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andr...

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist la...

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe. Struggling with the most s...

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological...

Visually rich, up-to-date, and authoritative, "The Atlas of Global Conservation" is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural wor...

Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of findin...

Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thir...

Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released "The China Syndrome", featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TV news crew who witness what appears...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

From the leader and spokeswoman of the antinuclear movement comes a revised and updated edition of this groundbreaking, widely acclaimed classic. E...

The Environmental Protection Agency is a young and dynamic federal agency facing the challenges of modern environmental protection. The political c...

Sypolt has compiled the first comprehensive national bibliography since 1943 of the Civilian Conservation Corps— of which he himself is a former me...

Controversy surrounding environmental issues is not a recent development in American history. Since the time of the early settlers, issues concerni...

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presid...

The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. In this book, Susan Clark tells the story of subsequent efforts...

A concerned activist takes the conservation movement to task and shows us what we stand to gain when conservation succeeds Critics of environmental...

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for re...

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing th...

In his Ark of the Broken Covenant, Kunich showed that Earth's species are concentrated in 25 zones of ecological significance known as biodiversity...

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, over consuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and inva...

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invas...