Environment and Ecology

Global Deforestation provides a concise but comprehensive examination of the variety of ways in which deforestation modifies environmental processe...

Conservation behavior assists the investigation of species endangerment associated with managing animals impacted by anthropogenic activities. It e...

Infrastructure forms the economic backbone of modern society. It is a key determinant of economic competitiveness, social well-being and environmen...

There are many hypotheses describing the interactions involved in biological invasions, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by emp...

Freshwater fish are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, but are also amongst the most threatened. With contributions from leaders in the...

In this global gardeners guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes ...

The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center.   Eco-anxiety. Climate ...

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, ind...

Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of ca...

Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to brin...

Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to brin...

The world is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, which existing conservation policies have failed to arrest. Policymakers, academics, and the ge...

Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to co...

While climate change litigation in developed countries of the 'Global North' is a well-studied phenomenon (from its distinctive characteristics and...

For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. Th...

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, an...

Energy in Agroecosystems: A Tool for Assessing Sustainability is the first book on energy analysis that is up-to-date and specifically dedicated to...

They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything sh...

In the late 1990s, governments began investing hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign oil and gas assets through their national oil companies (...

Originally published in 2007, Ecological Restoration has become one of the seminal books in this quickly developing field. This completely revised ...

'Shearwater is sheer delight, a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe' Daily Mail.'Charming and impassioned ... a ric...

This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to ...