Environmental Management

Native only to the California Channel Islands, the island fox is the smallest canid in North America. Populations on four of the islands were threa...

Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of ...

The modern world is totally dependent on a continuing supply of energy from oil and other fossil fuels. However, recent natural disasters, global p...

17 of the country's prominent bush experts share there knowledge about conservation and management of the Bushveld, its geology and soil, veld and ...

Globally, more and more species are at risk of extinction as the environment and climate change. Many of these species require long-term management...

Globally, more and more species are at risk of extinction as the environment and climate change. Many of these species require long-term management...

We live in a complex and dynamic world. Understanding how to monitor, manage and conserve species and habitats - the goal of applied ecology - is o...

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not fully understood. This book provides the first global...

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

Whilst the science of conservation biology is thriving as a discipline, ultimately global conservation is failing. Why, when the majority of people...

Whilst the science of conservation biology is thriving as a discipline, ultimately global conservation is failing. Why, when the majority of people...

Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with ris...

Most people can readily identify a forest, or a grassland, or a wetland - these are the simple labels we give different plant communities. The aim ...

This book brings together leading conservation practitioners to reflect on their response to the current global biodiversity crisis, through the le...

The long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook expands on the first edition to include advances made in the last four decades, bringing t...

This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership. Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management. Large estates cove...

This reference work analyzes and assesses global environmental management techniques for environmental materials with a focus on their performance ...

Bringing together the ideas of experts from around the world, this incisive text offers cutting-edge perspectives on the risk analysis and governan...

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical conce...

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...

This book focuses on a stream in New Hampshire and how it and other bodies of water have been affected by changes in technology, economic values, n...

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the s...

This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource us...

How we view nature transforms the world around us. People rehearse stories about nature which make sense to them. If we ask the question 'why conse...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. A stunning book on the i...

This book examines current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization that works on a national scale in Canada. The story...

With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions.Started by Bob Brown ...

Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics have been embraced by many in natural resource conservation. Today, several major conservation a...

In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much c...