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  • Climate Change in the Himalayas

    Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems

    Edited by Amit Kumar, Wil De Jong, Munesh Kumar, Rajiv Pandey ...
    Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region. This book characterizes current biodiversity statuses, related ecosystem services, and provides new evidence and solutions for climate change effects on Himalayan animals and plants. Written by ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development

    Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward

    Edited by Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Forests and trees are crucial for human wellbeing, sustainable development, and ultimately, life on Earth. The critical ecosystem services that forests provide are widely ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

    Edited by Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel ...
    Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention, however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these impacts may, in turn, ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

  • Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas

    Edited by Wil de Jong, Denyse Snelder, Noboru Ishikawa ...
    Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities.This book illustrates the diversity of transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience or ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests

    by Professor Jürgen Blaser, Dr Glenn Galloway, Mr Mafa E. Chipeta, Prof Rodney J. Keenan, Prof Jegatheswaran Ratnasingam, Dr Alida O'Connor, Dr Terry C. H. Sunderland, Dr Oliver Gardi, Prof Beth A. Kaplin, Prof Gamini Herath0, Prof Francis E. Putz1, Mr Patrick D. Hardcastle3, Dr Ian D. Thompson4, Prof Paxie W. Chirwa5, Dr Oghenekevwe Arabomen6, Dr Stephen Syampungani7, Dr Vincent O. Oeba8, Dr James Sandom9, Dr Chloe Ginsburg0, Dr Stephanie Keene1, Dr Alain Frechette2, Mr Andy White3, Dr Alice Muchugi4, Dr Liz Ota5, Dr Sharif A. Mukul6, Dr Nestor Gregorio7, Prof John Herbohn8, Prof Michael Köhl9, Dr Philip Mundhenk0, Dr Prem Raj Neupane1, Dr Marieke Sandker2, Dr Till Neef3, Prof Reiner Finkeldey4, Dr Sammy Muraguri5, Dr Markus Müller6, Dr Carina Carneiro de Melo Moura7, Dr Oliver Gailing8, Prof Steve Woodward9, Dr H. Tugba Dogmuş0, Dr Lindsey Norgrove1, Dr Tabea Allen2, Dr Ata Davatgar3, Dr Stephanie Mansourian4, Dr Jonathan C. Onyekwelu5, Dr Hesti L. Tata6, Dr Paolo Omar Cerutti7, Dr Robert Nasi8, Prof Edson Vidal9, Dr Thales A. P. West0, Dr Marco W. Lentini1, Dr Saulo E. X. F. de Souza2, Dr Carine Klauberg3, Dr Philippe Waldhoff4, Prof. Godwin Kowero5, Dr H.-N. Bouda6, Dr Gillian Petrokofsky7, Dr Duncan Brack8, Dr Wil de Jong9 ...
    Series Book 80 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Explores the broader economic, political and environmental context in which management of tropical forests needs to operateParticular focus on management structures and techniques to achieve sustainable forest management (SFM) on the groundIncludes case studies of practical experience of managing tropical forests in South America, West Africa and Southeast Asia ... Read more

    $220.49 USD

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology

    Edited by Ian Douglas, P M L Anderson, David Goode, David Maddox, Harini Nagendra, Puay Yok Tan, Michael C. Houck ...
    This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbook’s scope by including ecological design; consideration of cultural dimensions of the use and conservation of urban nature; the roles of government and civil society; and the continuing issues of equity and fairness in access to urban greenspaces.New features include ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

    Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City

    Edited by Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Forest–Water Management

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Many people worldwide lack adequate access to clean water to meet basic needs, and many important economic activities, such as energy production and agriculture, also require water. Climate change is likely to aggravate water stress. As temperatures rise, ecosystems and the human, plant, and animal communities that depend on them will need more water to maintain their health and to thrive.Forests ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes

    Edited by Stephen Wratten, Ross Cullen, Robert Costanza, Harpinder Sandhu ...
    Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands). They underpin life on earth, provide major inputs to many economic sectors and support our lifestyles. Agricultural and urban areas are by far the largest users of ecosystems and their services and (for the first ... Read more

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  • Farming with Nature

    The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture

    Edited by Sara J. Scherr, Jeffrey A. McNeely ...
    A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of “ecoagriculture” landscapes to generate cobenefits for production, biodiversity, and local people.Farming with Nature offers a ... Read more

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  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... Read more

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