Environmental Management

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

South Africa is renowned for its wildlife and environmental conservation in iconic national parks such as the Kruger, one of the world's first form...

This book is written by internationally-famous biologists, ecologists, soil biologists and environmental scientists and managers who have been enga...

A fascinating survey of the geologic, environmental, and human history of southeastern Ohio The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from ...

As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in Ame...

The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change provides a comprehensive and prominent reference of va...

As part of a global effort to assess the storage potential for captured carbon dioxide (CO2), this book estimates and characterizes the storage pot...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia (low-oxygen conditions) in the marine waters and freshwaters of the United States negatively impact resourc...

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...

Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevat...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

This book provides readers with the latest developments in environmental research. Chapter One provides information that can guide environmental pu...

South African temporarily open/closed estuaries (TOCEs) and similar systems along the coastlines of other regions of the world, especially Australi...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the types, threats and management of pine forests. Topics discussed i...

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...

The national forests have been the focus of controversy for many years. Reduced timber harvests, increased wildfire risks, degraded forest health, ...

Coupled with increasing concerns about the environment, the magnitude of federal spending on contracts has prompted numerous questions from Members...