Environmental Management

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year ...

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...

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chao...

Chinas westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating violence, cycles of interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. Se...

Ever since Darwin, science has enshrined competition as biology''s brutal architect. But this revelatory new book argues that our narrow view of ev...

Livestock's Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its kind since Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964). Most people have little idea ho...

Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas Trinity and Houston co...

More than the lifeblood of our natural world, Texas rivers have nourished the human spirit for as long as people have gathered on their banks. A li...

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and...

'A do-er, not a dreamer, Gow has become one of our most outspoken rewilders.' Countryfile Magazine In this warm and funny autobiography, [Gow]...

Created in 1916, and encompassing 45,000 acres on two islands and a mainland peninsula on the rugged coast of Maine, Acadia National Park is a jewe...

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social cri...

This book addresses an important problem in ecology: how are communities assembled from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad arr...

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and...

This book contains the proceedings of the international workshop on global sustainability held in Benevento, Italy, on February 2014. The proceedin...

WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Author of the New York Times 2023 Notable Book Crossings Washington Post 50 Not...

This text is a pioneering work on environmental management for sustainable development. This up-to-date and comprehensive textbook integrates the c...

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes a...

Many traditional approaches to rural land management are strictly sectoral, with a rigid introspective focus. Consequently the impact of silo-drive...

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or 'coltan' - an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and l...

An essential book that comes to grips with the events that will determine the fate of the Earth This book goes to the heart of the unfolding realit...

Reintroduction of Fish and Wildlife Populations provides a practical step-by-step guide to successfully planning, implementing, and evaluating the ...

Since the discovery of fire, humans have been energy users and always will be. And this is a good thing-our mastery of energy is what separates us ...

Coal, silver, gold. There is something about the allure of hidden treasure that puts a glint in peoples eyes. By gathering such familiar storie...

Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few...

Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem...