D.O - Environmental Conservation & Protection 1

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize ‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from ……続きを見る

São apresentadas informações sobre a implantação e o atual estado de conservação da Mata Atlântica do sul da Bahia, discorrendo-se sobre as principais interações ecológicas entre árvores e florestas……続きを見る

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minim……続きを見る

A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram project. Inspired by the “Overview E……続きを見る

Esta obra identifica a composição da ictiofauna da Represa de Jurumirim, reconhecendo os diferentes padrões reprodutivos de seus peixes, incluindo das espécies migradoras. Analisa também a dieta das……続きを見る

After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa’s parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction……続きを見る

Since the early 1900’s over 75,000 synthetic, toxic chemicals have been introduced into our environment and homes. Harmful chemicals are in virtually everything we use in the home, work place and on……続きを見る

Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru “Fine is Bryson Funny.” ーーSanta Cruz Sentinel “Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhike……続きを見る

The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ec……続きを見る

Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around ……続きを見る

Mientras un grupo de indígenas es contaminado con mercurio por la minería ilegal, un científico, descubridor de un novedoso e importante fármaco, es asesinado en el curs……続きを見る

There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately ……続きを見る

What we choose to eat is killing our planet and us, yet use of the word sustainable is ubiquitous. Explanation of this incongruity lies in the fact that sustainability efforts are rarely positioned ……続きを見る

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation. It discusses the values that support these project……続きを見る

Arizona�s 20 national parks and monuments celebrate the natural wonders and rich heritage of Arizona, preserved through the efforts of countless citizens and the American Antiquities Act of 1906. Ag……続きを見る

The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exc……続きを見る

When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's pi……続きを見る

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending. This is certainly true from ……続きを見る

River Morphology deals with the interaction between flowing waters in rivers and their environment. Based on the representation of basic flow parameters, the geometry, classification and historic de……続きを見る

Freshwater Ecology, Second Edition, is a broad, up-to-date treatment of everything from the basic chemical and physical properties of water to advanced unifying concepts of the community ecology and……続きを見る

By many measures, Earth’s ecosystems are stressed. Actually, it may be more accurate to say that Earth’s remaining ecosystems are stressed. The fact is that most of the planet’s biomes support only ……続きを見る

A special edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of the environmental movementーplus original photographs and other writings on environmental ethics Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has be……続きを見る

Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast stretches of seemingly empty seas, the albatross remains a legend for most people. And yet, humans are th……続きを見る

In Wilder Ways, Donald C. Jackson takes readers on a journey into the deep and very personal connections that can develop between people and wild places while hunting, fishing, and rambling across l……続きを見る

We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wil……続きを見る

In an effort to implement conservation measures farmers have used a variety of production methods, including the use of reduced or zero tillage and cover crops. One benefit of these production metho……続きを見る

Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests it……続きを見る

The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the most important aspects of suspended matter in the aquatic environment: its origin and composition, the concentration distribution, transpor……続きを見る

Pulp and paper production has increased globally and will continue to increase in the near future. Approximately 155 million tons of wood pulp is produced worldwide and about 260 million is projecte……続きを見る

This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environ mental management. Each volume is a thorough treatme……続きを見る