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  • Global Environmental Forest Policies

    An International Comparison

    by Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore, Peter Kanowski ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and non-governmental initiatives have emerged to redefine the rules of global trade, and demand verification of the legality and/or sustainability of forest products originating from within and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Teaming with Fungi

    The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae

    by Jeff Lowenfels ...
    “Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.” —Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the WorldTeaming with Fungi is an important guide to mycorrhizae and the role they play in agriculture, horticulture, and hydroponics. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Freshwater Ecology

    Concepts and Environmental Applications

    by Walter K. Dodds ...
    Series series Aquatic Ecology
    Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications is a general text covering both basic and applied aspects of freshwater ecology and serves as an introduction to the study of lakes and streams. Issues of spatial and temporal scale, anthropogenic impacts, and application of current ecological concepts are covered along with ideas that are presented in more traditional limnological texts. ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Iceland Imagined

    Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

    by Karen Oslund ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund’s Iceland Imagined.This ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Lost Wolves of Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Forest Management and Planning

    by Pete Bettinger, Kevin Boston, Jacek P. Siry, Donald L. Grebner ...
    Forest Management and Planning provides a focused understanding of contemporary forest management issues through real life examples to engage students. The methodology for the development of quantitatively-derived forest management plans – from gathering information to the implementation of plans at the forest level – are clearly explained. Emphasis is placed on the development of traditional ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Advancing Food Integrity

    GMO Regulation, Agroecology, and Urban Agriculture

    by Gabriela Steier ...
    Key features:Presents summaries of key points after each chapter and includes color graphs to visualize the big-picture conceptsDemonstrates how urban rooftop farms (URFs) can contribute to city greening and climate change mitigation worldwide while providing fresh locally-sourced produce for growing urban populationsProvides cutting-edge ideas from the the emerging field of food law and places ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Fire Lookouts of Glacier National Park

    by David R. Butler ...
    Series series Images of America
    The first fire lookouts in the Glacier National Park region were simply high points atop mountain peaks with unimpeded views of the surrounding terrain. Widespread fires in the 1910s and 1920s led to the construction of more permanent lookouts, first as wooden pole structures and subsequently as a variety of one- and two-story cabin designs. Cooperating lookouts in Glacier Park, the Flathead ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faith in Nature

    Environmentalism as Religious Quest

    by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • National Forest Inventories: Contributions to Forest Biodiversity Assessments

    Edited by Gherardo Chirici, Susanne Winter, Ronald E. McRoberts ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, economic, and social well-being of earth’s civilisations. Unfortunately, however, forest biodiversity is threatened to a serious degree in nearly all countries. Therefore, many countries have agreed to be parties to international agreements focused on maintaining, restoring, and monitoring biodiversity; further, these countries have agreed to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Immunological Approaches to Contraception and Promotion of Fertility

    Edited by Gursaran Talwar ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Contraceptive research has entered the new age of vaccines. Realistic prospects exist for the development of an entirely new battery of vaccines for use in human and veterinary medicine. Among them may be anti-fertility vaccines, based on physiological mechanisms applicable to either the female or male. This volume is a comprehensive review - a status report - of the subjects including fundamental ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • China’s Grain for Green Program

    A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World

    by Zhen Yuan, Claudio O. Delang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive review of Grain for Green, China’s nationwide program which pays farmers to revert sloping or marginal farm land to trees or grass. The program aims to improve the ecological conditions of much of China, and the socioeconomic circumstances of hundreds of millions of people. GfG is the largest reforestation, ecological restoration, and rural development initiative ... Read more

    $89.09 USD