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Wood ants play an ecologically dominant and conspicuous role in temperate boreal forests, making a keystone contribution to woodland ecosystem functions and processes. Wood ant taxonomy and global d……続きを見る

'Warmly entertaining...an endearing account of the search for rare bees' Guardian A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amon……続きを見る

A retired North American from Chicago, who spent a long career in multiple high technologies, moves to Ecuador to live on a farm in the sierras. He and his wife begin a journey of transforming the l……続きを見る

An exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, ……続きを見る

The world’s oceans cover about 70% of our planet. To safeguard the delicate ecological and environmental functions of the oceans and their remarkable biodiversity, networks of marine protected areas……続きを見る

This book critically examines both theory and practice around conservation crimes. It engages with the full complexity of environmental crimes and different responses to them, including: poaching, c……続きを見る

Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans ……続きを見る

This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mun……続きを見る

The Forest and the Marine Stewardship Councils constitute new global governance institutions using voluntary certification and labelling as market incentives to encourage sustainable management. Uti……続きを見る

Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, create a compelling picture of the potential perks and p……続きを見る

This book provides a unique, comprehensive exploration of the scale, scope, threats and drivers of wildlife trafficking. It also undertakes a distinctive exploration of who the victims and offenders……続きを見る

Deans of men in American colleges and universities were created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to help manage a growing student population. The early deans often had a personal……続きを見る

In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives a……続きを見る

This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The mean……続きを見る

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged. This stereotype evolves just as investments in cycling play an increasingly important rol……続きを見る

When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the……続きを見る

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-t……続きを見る

Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of Borneo In his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel wr……続きを見る

Les carnets de terrain numéro 32 et 34 du botaniste Francis Hallé en Indonésie, en 1980. 続きを見る

Carnet de terrain de Francis Hallé, en Guyane, en 1984 続きを見る

Carnet de terrain, n°105, sur le séjour de Francis Hallé en Equateur, aux îles Galapagos, en 2014. 続きを見る

Le Carnet de terrain numéro 14 du botaniste Francis Hallé à Madagascar, en 1974. 続きを見る

The Philippines is one of the few countries that is both a megadiverse country and a hotspot.It is not only diverse, but it is megadiverse, which means it has more species concentrated in its land t……続きを見る

Found only in the United States, the American alligator ranges in Texas through 120 counties, from the Sabine River to the Rio Grande, across a swath of river drainages and coastal marshes that incl……続きを見る

Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In Going Away to Think, he reflects on the twin motivations of ……続きを見る

During the past sixty-eight years, Israel’s population has increased from one to eight million people. Such exponential growth has produced acute environmental and social crises in this tiny country……続きを見る

In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird sp……続きを見る

Africa’s heritage is on the brink of extinction and unlike past mass extinctions, caused by other factors, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us ー humans. Wildlife is being slaughtered……続きを見る

Artéfacts Là où nous sommes contient 33 récits illustrés d’aquarelles originales de lieux, de moments et de personnages du Québec représentés par Virginie Tanguay, une artiste accomplie qui vit sur ……続きを見る

This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area. It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reserv……続きを見る