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  • Case Studies in Human Ecology

    Edited by Daniel G. Bates, Sarah H. Lees ...
    This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues. The case studies, all taken from the journal Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Jouma~ represent a broad cross-section of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Human Ecology

    Contemporary Research and Practice

    Edited by Daniel G. Bates, Judith Tucker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology. Academic, political, and, indeed, public interest in the environmental sciences is on the rise. This is no doubt spurred by media coverage of climate change and global warming and attendant natural disasters such as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography

    Local Dynamics and Global Processes

    by William G. Moseley, Eric Perramond, Holly M. Hapke, Paul Laris ...
    This introductory level text explores various theoretical approaches to human-environment geography, demonstrating how local dynamics and global processes influence how we interact with our environments.Introduces students to fundamental concepts in environmental geography and scienceExplores the core theoretical traditions within the field, along with major thematic issues such as population, ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities eBook

    Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

    Edited by Professor A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, Professor David W. Brokensha ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Race to Save the Tropics

    Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future

    Edited by Robert Goodland ...
    Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries. ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

    Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges

    Edited by K N Ninan ...
    This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the context of diverse ecosystems such as tropical forests, marine areas, wetlands and agricultural landscapes, non-timber forest products, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • People, Plants, and Justice

    The Politics of Nature Conservation

    Edited by Charles Zerner ...
    In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and remedies must be based on broader considerations of history, culture, and geography in order to establish ... Read more

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  • Environmental Policy and Biodiversity

    Edited by R. Edward Grumbine ...
    Scientists and policymakers must work together if solutions to the biodiversity crisis are to be found. Yet all too often, scientific data are unknown or incomprehensible to policymakers, and political realities are not fully appreciated by scientists.Environmental Policy and Biodiversity addresses that problem by presenting both an overview of important concepts in the field of conservation ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Exploring Agrodiversity

    by Harold Brookfield ...
    Series series Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
    Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward conserving resources, especially soil. They have shown considerable resilience in the face of major ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Wild Species as Commodities

    Managing Markets And Ecosystems For Sustainability

    by Curtis Freese ...
    In recent years, some policymakers and conservationists have argued that natural resources will be protected only if economic benefits accrue to those who are responsible for caring for the resources. Such commercial consumptive use of wild species (CCU) provides an economically viable alternative to more ecologically destructive land uses, and could help accomplish the overall goals of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Jungle

    How Tropical Forests Shaped the World—and Us

    by Patrick Roberts ...
    "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesFrom the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made.To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Invasive Alien Species

    A New Synthesis

    Edited by Harold A. Mooney, Richard Mack, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Laurie E. Neville, Peter Johan Schei, Jeffrey K. Waage ...
    Series series SCOPE Series
    Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and CABI developed the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) with the explicit objective of providing new tools for understanding and coping with ... Read more

    $33.19 USD