Environment and Ecology

The South African government has prioritized a reduction of poverty and increased food security in rural parts of South Africa through agrarian tra...

How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming Weve all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, clim...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

The growing urgency, complexity and wickedness of sustainability problemsfrom climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per...

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT. It aims to show how st...

Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and prod...

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Speciesthe first catalogue of its kindcovers all living and fossil snakes described between ...

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific...

Originally published in 1975 Terrestrial Environments covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, includ...

Deep adaptation refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for and live with a climate-influenced breakdown or c...

Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of belief...

This report examines the impacts of subsidies on the world's stock of foundational natural capital: clean air, land, and oceans. It presents new re...

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.' The Guardian This book remains one of Vandana Shiva's key works, in which she addresses s...

A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations ...

Longleaf pine forests are an iconic forest of the southeastern United States. Although these forests were often called pine barrens by early explor...

'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the bes...

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWinner, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the category of Ecology and Environment, Fore...

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 7: Long and Deep Tunnels contains the con...

This book presents an inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa'ss wide-ranging food security challenges, particularly in fragility, conflict, an...