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  • Wicked Environmental Problems
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    Wicked Environmental Problems

    ""Wicked"" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena...
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  • Conservation for a New Generation
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    Conservation for a New Generation

    In hundreds of watersheds and communities across the United States, conservation is being reinvented and invigorated by collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments working with nongovernmental organizations and private landowners,...
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  • Conservation for a New Generation:
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    Conservation for a New Generation:

    In hundreds of watersheds and communities across the United States, conservation is being reinvented and invigorated by collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments working with nongovernmental organizations and private landowners,...
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  • Unquenchable:
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    Unquenchable:

    In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run...
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  • Old Growth in a New World:
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    Old Growth in a New World:

    Old-growth forests represent a lofty ideal as much as an ecosystem'an icon of unspoiled nature, ecological stability, and pristine habitat. These iconic notions have actively altered the way society relates to old-growth forests, catalyzing major changes...
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  • Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2008-2009:
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    Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2008-2009:

    Taken from the pages of Science and supplemented by contributions from the magazine' s editors, State of the Planet 2008-2009 offers contemporary science writing that is sometimes provocative, frequently enlightening, and always authoritative. Published...
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  • Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2008-2009:
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    Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2008-2009:

    Taken from the pages of Science and supplemented by contributions from the magazine' s editors, State of the Planet 2008-2009 offers contemporary science writing that is sometimes provocative, frequently enlightening, and always authoritative. Published...
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  • Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences
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    Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences

    Salvage logging'removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as a wildfire or hurricane'is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged areas...
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  • Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences
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    Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences

    Salvage logging'removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as a wildfire or hurricane'is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged areas...
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  • The Wolf's Tooth
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    The Wolf's Tooth

    Animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate influence on their environment; dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from'or returned to'an ecosystem. In The Wolf's Tooth, scientist and author...
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  • Rising Sea
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    Rising Sea

    On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these...
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  • New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics and Restoration
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    New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics and Restoration

    As scientific understanding about ecological processes has grown, the idea that ecosystem dynamics are complex, nonlinear, and often unpredictable has gained prominence. Of particular importance is the idea that rather than following an inevitable...
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  • Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes
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    Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes

    Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes brings a century of scientific research to bear on improving the relationship between people and fire. In recent years, some scientists have argued that current patterns of fire are significantly different...
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  • Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes
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    Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes

    Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes brings a century of scientific research to bear on improving the relationship between people and fire. In recent years, some scientists have argued that current patterns of fire are significantly different...
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  • Communicating Global Change Science to Society
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    Communicating Global Change Science to Society

    National governments and research scientists may be equally concerned with issues of global environmental change, but their interests-and their timelines-are not the same. Governments are often focused on short-term effects and local impacts of global...
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  • Communicating Global Change Science to Society:
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    Communicating Global Change Science to Society:

    National governments and research scientists may be equally concerned with issues of global environmental change, but their interests-and their timelines-are not the same. Governments are often focused on short-term effects and local impacts of global...
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  • Mountain Goats
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    Mountain Goats

    Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation plans. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the...
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  • Mountain Goats:
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    Mountain Goats:

    Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation plans. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the...
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  • Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species
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    Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species

    Some ecosystem management plans established by state and federal agencies have begun to shift their focus away from single-species conservation to a broader goal of protecting a wide range of flora and fauna, including species whose numbers are scarce or...
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  • Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species:
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    Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species:

    Some ecosystem management plans established by state and federal agencies have begun to shift their focus away from single-species conservation to a broader goal of protecting a wide range of flora and fauna, including species whose numbers are scarce or...
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  • Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose
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    Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose

    Written both by scientists and by scholars representing the world's religious traditions, this collection of essays addresses the question of whether a religiously based notion of a purposeful cosmos is consistent with the latest scientific understanding...
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  • Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
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    Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans

    Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a...
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  • Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
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    Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans

    Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a...
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  • Conservation Professional's Guide to Working with People
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    Conservation Professional's Guide to Working with People

    Successful natural resource management is much more than good science; it requires working with landowners, meeting deadlines, securing funding, supervising staff, and cooperating with politicians. The ability to work effectively with people is as...
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  • A Critique of Silviculture
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    A Critique of Silviculture

    The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while still providing...
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  • A Critique of Silviculture
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    A Critique of Silviculture

    The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while still providing...
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  • Sustainability Indicators
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    Sustainability Indicators

    While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific...
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  • Sustainability Indicators:
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    Sustainability Indicators:

    While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific...
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  • Under Ground:
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    Under Ground:

    Let's get dirty. In childhood, the back yard, the flowerbed, the beach, the mucky place where land slips into puddles, lakes, and streams are infinitely fascinating. It is a mistake to leave that ""childish"" fascination with mud and dirt behind. The...
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  • The Silicon Cycle
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    The Silicon Cycle

    Silicon is among the most abundant elements on earth. It plays a key but largely unappreciated role in many biogeochemical processes, including those that regulate climate and undergird marine food webs. The Silicon Cycle is the first book in more...
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  • Silicon Cycle:
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    Silicon Cycle:

    Silicon is among the most abundant elements on earth. It plays a key but largely unappreciated role in many biogeochemical processes, including those that regulate climate and undergird marine food webs. The Silicon Cycle is the first book in more...
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  • River Futures:
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    River Futures:

    Across much of the industrialized world, rivers that were physically transformed and ecologically ruined to facilitate industrial and agricultural development are now the focus of restoration and rehabilitation efforts. River Futures discusses the...
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  • World's Water 2006-2007:
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    World's Water 2006-2007:

    Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant current trends worldwide, and offers the best data...
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  • The World's Water 2006-2007
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    The World's Water 2006-2007

    Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant current trends worldwide, and offers the best data...
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  • Evolution and Christian Faith
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    Evolution and Christian Faith

    Click here to visit evolutionandchristianfaith.org ""I'm an evolutionary biologist and a Christian,"" states Stanford professor Joan Roughgarden at the outset of her groundbreaking new book, Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an...
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  • Evolution and Christian Faith
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    Evolution and Christian Faith

    Click here to visit evolutionandchristianfaith.org ""I'm an evolutionary biologist and a Christian,"" states Stanford professor Joan Roughgarden at the outset of her groundbreaking new book, Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an...
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  • Dominant Animal:
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    Dominant Animal:

    In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we...
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  • Wildlife-Habitat Relationships
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    Wildlife-Habitat Relationships

    Wildlife-Habitat Relationships goes beyond introductory wildlife biology texts to provide wildlife professionals and students with an understanding of the importance of habitat relationships in studying and managing wildlife. The book offers a unique...
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  • Wildlife-Habitat Relationships:
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    Wildlife-Habitat Relationships:

    Wildlife-Habitat Relationships goes beyond introductory wildlife biology texts to provide wildlife professionals and students with an understanding of the importance of habitat relationships in studying and managing wildlife. The book offers a unique...
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  • Old Fields:
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    Old Fields:

    Land abandonment is increasing as human influence on the globe intensifies and various ecological, social, and economic factors conspire to force the cessation of agriculture and other forms of land management. The “old fieldsa that result from...
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  • Old Fields
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    Old Fields

    Land abandonment is increasing as human influence on the globe intensifies and various ecological, social, and economic factors conspire to force the cessation of agriculture and other forms of land management. The “old fieldsa that result from...
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  • Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems:
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    Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems:

    Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in...
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  • Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems
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    Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems

    Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in...
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  • Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007
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    Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007

    How often in today's environmental debates have you read that ""the science is in dispute""-even when there is overwhelming consensus among scientists? Too often, the voice of science is diminished or diluted for the sake of politics, and the public is...
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  • Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration:
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    Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration:

    Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration presents case studies of five of the most noteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, California Bay Delta, the Platte River Basin, and the Upper Mississippi River...
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  • Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration:
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    Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration:

    Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration presents case studies of five of the most noteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, California Bay Delta, the Platte River Basin, and the Upper Mississippi River...
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  • Reconstructing Earth
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    Reconstructing Earth

    The Earth's biological, chemical, and physical systems are increasingly shaped by the activities of one species-ours. In our decisions about everything from manufacturing technologies to restaurant menus, the health of the planet has become a product of...
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