Environment and Ecology

In Environmental Law and Economics, Michael G. Faure and Roy A. Partain provide a detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed ...

Sharks are among the most persecuted animals on Earth. Nicole''s block-buster story lifts the lid on the shocking details of the trade in shark fin...

Australias introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental and social impacts. The Guide to Introdu...

This volume examines the integration of water resource management for sustainable utilization with the optimum allocation of water use for regional...

This book shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including how to rear and release game, and advises on m...

A practical guide to the latest remote and in situ techniques used to measure sediments, quantify seabed characteristics, and understand physical p...

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by ins...

Understand how professionals manage the natural world with WILDLIFE AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4E! From running fisheries and national parks ...

Vital for a game of cricket or golf and enjoyable when picnicking in the park, turfgrass provides a wide range of aesthetic and recreational benefi...

Whether the prospective buyer is a farmer or rancher looking to expand operations, a sportsman seeking to preserve habitat for wildlife, or a natur...

The U.S. Landsat Mission has collected remotely sensed imagery of the Earth''''s surface for more than 35 years. At present two satellites, Lanndsa...

Peat, or turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires a...

Regardless of the word balance being used either globally or locally in any given context, it is undoubtedly the keyword in the increasing number...

Energy is an essential factor in development, since it stimulates, and supports economic growth, and development. Any form of energy can be transfo...

The Okavango Delta, a globally renowned wetland, is characterised by a mosaic of meandering watercourses, floodplains and islands, and is home to a...

The past two decades alone have witnessed four major shocks to the global financial system: the collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in...

Oregon Plans provides a rich, detailed, and nuanced analysis of the origins and early evolution of Oregon''s nationally renowned land use planning ...

Environmental issues are among the most profound challenges of the 21st century. The widespread degradation of the earth''''s air, water, soil and ...

Riparian ecosystems occur in semi-terrestrial areas adjacent to water bodies and are influenced by freshwater. Riparian wetlands are defined as lan...

This book is divided into five main parts: plantation forestry in context; forest growth dynamics and assessments; plantation silviculture and mana...

The world is experiencing a shortage of helium-3, a rare isotope with applications in homeland security, national security, medicine, industry, and...

This book addresses the issues and problems related with land resources degradations and its meaningful solution using local tool and technological...

Wherever flowering plants flourish, pollinating bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and other animals are hard at work, providing vital but often unnot...

This book looks at theories of nature-society relations and development, applied to soil erosion and environmental change in West Africa, and Ghana...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation''''s largest public power provider, is a self-financing, federal electric utility with annual reve...

Chile is recognised around the world for a strong economy, openness and political stability. There have been important advances in our economic mod...

Pollinators are essential to the United States economy. Honey bees, native bees, birds, bats, butterflies, and other species contribute substantial...

The ever-increasing human population and high demand for natural resources have resulted in declining species and ecosystems that justify the explo...

This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on coastal wetlands and their role in human h...

This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on the impact of forest canopy structure on s...

In recent decades, there has been increased interest in understanding ecosystems in order to be able to manage and conserve them. Yet examples of h...

In recent decades, there has been increased interest in applying science to the management of ecosystems. However, designing research programs that...

In recent decades, managing the nation''''s public and private forests and rangelands has become increasingly complex, requiring a sound understand...

This interdisciplinary analysis of Scotland's perennial political hot potato the Scottish land question follows the latest legislative developmen...

Charles Flower is passionate about restoring the countryside. He has spent many years working on and writing about the restoration of wild flowers ...

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-cen...

In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and wate...

Cabinets of prints and drawings are found in the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. From the sixteenth century onwards, some of them ...

Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hatsand he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil explorat...

Environmental issues appear deceptively simple: science tells us what the problems are and how to solve them, and, for Christians, the Bible motiva...

South Pacific island nations are committed to international agreements and regional declarations to progress gender equality within their own terri...

Are natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, Earth provides enough to satisfy every man''s need, but not ev...

The diversion of water from Colorados Western Slope to meet the needs of the rest of the state has been a contentious issue throughout Colorados hi...

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