Conservation of the environment Books

""Moundmaking Ants of the Alleghenies"" is a comprehensive scientific study of the ants found in the Allegheny Mountains, authored by Henry Christopher McCook and published in 1877. The book provides a detailed exploration of the various species of ants...

Mongolia V1: The Tangut Country And The Solitudes Of Northern Tibet is a historical travelogue written by Nikolai Mikhailovich Prejevalsky in 1876. The book details the author's journey through Mongolia, exploring the Tangut country and the remote areas...

""Food of the Woodpeckers of the United States"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal in 1911. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the dietary habits of woodpeckers in the United States, including their...

Flowers of the Engadine: Drawn from Nature is a book written and illustrated by Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote in 1891. The book is a collection of watercolor paintings of various flowers found in the Engadine region of Switzerland, each accompanied by...

Florula Mortolensis is a botanical reference book written by Alwin Berger and published in 1905. The book provides an exhaustive list of the plants growing wild in La Mortola, a region in Italy known for its diverse flora. The author has meticulously...

Facts and Phases of Animal Life is a book written by Verson S. Morwood and published in 1883. The book is a comprehensive guide to the animal kingdom, covering a wide range of topics related to the behavior, physiology, and ecology of animals. The author...

Le Regne Vegetal V1-3 (1890) est un livre publi����� par Ducourtieux Publisher. Cette �����uvre est une encyclop�����die compl�����te sur le r�����gne v�����g�����tal, qui se compose de trois volumes. Le livre contient des informations d�����taill�����es...

Essai Sur La Conservation De La Vie (1860) est un livre �����crit par De Lapasse, Le Vocomte. Ce livre traite de la conservation de la vie et des moyens de pr�����server la sant����� et le bien-������tre des individus. L'auteur explore les...

""�����tudes sur les p������ches maritimes dans la M�����diterran�����e et l'Oc�����an"" est un livre �����crit par Berthelot et Sabin en 1868. Ce livre traite des diff�����rentes techniques de p������che utilis�����es dans la M�����diterran�����e et...

""Nouvelles Observations Sur Les Abeilles V2 (1814)"" est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois Huber, qui se concentre sur les abeilles et leur comportement. Dans ce livre, Huber partage ses observations sur les abeilles, en utilisant une m�����thode...

Histoire Naturelle De La Croyance, Partie 1: L�������Animal (1887) par Van Ende est un livre qui explore la relation entre l'homme et les animaux dans diff�����rentes cultures ������ travers l'histoire. L'auteur examine les croyances et les pratiques...

Histoire et Description Naturelle de la Commune de Meudon est un livre �����crit par Louis Eug�����ne Robert et publi����� en 1843. Il s'agit d'une description d�����taill�����e de la petite ville de Meudon, situ�����e dans le d�����partement des...

Essai sur les moyens de conduire, d'�����lever et de distribuer les eaux est un livre �����crit en 1829 par Raymond Genieys. Ce livre traite des diff�����rents moyens permettant de g�����rer l'eau, notamment en ce qui concerne son transport, son...

The number of questions related to climate, pollution, mass extinction, threats from technology, are on a rise. How to understand our place within the environment, how to create a link between our economy and the environment, how to evaluate natural...

This volume offers insights into the steps and challenges involved in this transition and addresses some urgent questions about the possible pathways for India's renewable energy generation.

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage is possible and provides an extensive response to its challenges.

This volume brings together academics working at differing intersections of environmental education and new materialisms, highlighting tensions, knots, and lines of flight across and for research, practice, and theory. This book was originally published...

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism could lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices, and community structures.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain. Yet these services are currently being decimated as...

Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora...

This book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing the water resource management issues in the South Asian region. It argues that aspects such as sources of water, its distribution and users; land-water interrelations; drivers of change such as...

Around the world, individuals and groups are rallying to draw attention to the climate emergency. Lakehead University culminated a Year Of Climate Action (YOCA) in a showcase of events at their 2022 Research and Innovation Week. One Cell, The World is...

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017). The first book laid out the international precursors for the Rights of Nature...

The 36 heartfelt and personal accounts about fire management contained in To Burn or Not to Burn reveal not just the differing perspectives on fire management but perhaps more importantly, how Australians interact with the land on a more profound level...

Anderson Marsh is comprised of over 1,000 acres of wetlands, oak woodlands, and grasslands. It is located in Lake County, California, on Clear Lake. There are at least 30 Native American archaeological sites located here, some of which are over 14,000...

The golden eagle is widely considered one of the world’s most magnificent birds. It is the epitome of wild places. The bird has a huge world distribution, and each pair of eagles has a large home range. They shy away from man so those who study...

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change adopted on December 12, 2015 is a voluntary effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reach the goals of this agreement, there is a need to generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions and to...

The 12 Principles Of Sustainability is an easy to read essay on our species' relationship with our home planet. The book first recounts the author's journey to discovering the 12 principles, then goes over the principles in detail. Each principle is...

A seed saving guideby Bevin (Ben) Cohen, foreword by Jere GettleSeed activist Bevin Cohen takes a deep dive into the hows and whys of the modern seed saving movement. A great how-to guide, leading the reader step by step through the process of saving...

Advances in Responsible Land Administration challenges conventional forms of land administration by introducing alternative approaches and provides the basis for a new land administration theory. A compilation of observations about responsible land...

This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people and the marine environment. Emphasizing the human dimension of coastal and ocean issues, the book provides...

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of...

We know certain chemicals cause problems in the workplace. The issues now are: Where do they occur in the workplace? How can we best evaluate them? What are the procedures for dealing with them safely? Many books simply define the problem and tell you...

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints...

The Handbook provides a supporting guide to key aspects and applications of landscape ecology to underpin its research and teaching. A wide range of contributions written by expert researchers in the field summarize the latest knowledge on landscape...

This book is for all the Kids out there who dreamed of having a sustainable environment, free from pollution and becoming a responsible citizen of the Earth!Featuring Short Story of friends Sasha, Butch, Cuff and Seff and their journey of becoming an...

Everyone knows that fossil fuels won't last forever. Something needs to change at some point, regardless of whether the issue is climate change or because we need a practical replacement for petroleum as cheap supplies run out.But while headlines suggest...

Environmental Issues and Policy: Exploring Past, Present, and Future Socioecological Relations presents readers with a collection of essays by experts in the field exploring some of the key environmental problems, its intersections with societal...

Saving Biological Diversity: An Overview.-What Are We Trying to Save? And Why? Toward a Policy-Relevant Definition of Biodiversity.-Part I Protecting Populations of Particular Species.-Navigating for Noah, Setting New Directions for Endangered Species...

Contents Foreword by Alicia V. Linzey iv Preface vii List of Contributors xii Section I: History and Current Status 1 History and Current Status of the Allegheny Woodrat 2 Janet Wright 2 Multiple Causes of the Allegheny Woodrat Decline: A...

What do the Hollywood 'school films' of the 1980's and 1990's communicate about education and race? This book looks at The Graduate , Blackboard Jungle , The English Patient , Dead Poets Society , Pulp Fiction , Ghost , The Wizard of Oz , Top Gun and...

Tracing the life of Sir Cyril Norwood, one of England's most prominent and influential educators, this book investigates the historical development of secondary education in England and Wales during the early Twentieth century.

Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation. According to Nelson and...

The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in...

The growth of African immigration to France at the end of the Twentieth Century wrought cultural change in this epicentre of the avant-garde in European art and music. James Winders presents the story of African immigrants to France as a unique chapter...

In A Life in Nature the author describes the role nature has played in his life, explores the kinds of relationships people have with nature, assesses the importance of these relationships in caring for our Earth home, and stresses the need to help...

Among the many causes of anxiety in today’s world are global concerns to do with social and economic inequality, the imperative of sustainable development, and the link between the damage we are causing the natural environment and climate change...