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  • Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife

    de Damian Michael, Mason Crane, Daniel Florance, Emma Burns, David Lindenmayer ...
    Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes. This has allowed land to be developed for cropping and grazing livestock but has also had significant environmental impacts, including erosion, salinity and loss of native plant and animal species. Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Biodiversity and Environmental Change

    Monitoring, Challenges and Direction

    Edición de Emma Burns, Andrew Lowe, Nicole Thurgate, David Lindenmayer ...
    This data-rich book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

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    The Race to Feed a Crowded World

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    “An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.”—Hampton SidesIn The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our fight against devastating world hunger in dramatic perspective. He travels the globe to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists on the front lines of the next green ... Leer más

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  • Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas

    de Caird Ramsay, Lisle Rudolph ...
    Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a ... Leer más

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    de Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Leer más

    $28.39 USD

  • The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature

    Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    de Viktor Schauberger ...
    Traducido por Callum Coats ...
    The Energy Evolution, the final volume in the revolutionary Eco-Technology series, contains radical environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's groundbreaking writings on methods for energy generation that harness the enormous potential of Nature. Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means – by a centripetal inward motion, while our present culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Nature and Farming

    Sustaining Native Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes

    de David Norton FLS, Nick Reid ...
    Conserving and enhancing native biodiversity on farms brings many benefits as well as providing many challenges. Nature and Farming explains why it is important to sustain native plants and animals in agricultural landscapes, and outlines the key issues in developing and implementing practical approaches to safeguarding native biodiversity in rural areas. The book considers the range of ecological ... Leer más

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  • Land of Plenty

    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    de Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    **Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?**Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wastewater Gardener

    Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time

    de Mark Nelson, PhD ...
    Mark Nelson, PhD, takes us on a global expedition to learn how we are wasting the world’s dwindling supply of fresh water by flushing away a very valuable resource, our own human wastes! The author is founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 ... Leer más

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  • The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship

    Edición de Claudia Bieling, Tobias Plieninger ...
    Improving the dynamic relationship between nature and human well-being is a pressing issue of our time. Landscapes embody this tight interconnectedness and serve as unique sustainability learning hubs, showcased by the global rise of place-based and holistic landscape stewardship initiatives. Incorporating these exciting developments, this book explores the principles of landscape stewardship and ... Leer más

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  • Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife

    de James Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson ...
    The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development (e.g. agricultural, residential, industrial, infrastructure and mining developments). The requirement for developers to implement measures to reduce the ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Successful Agricultural Innovation in Emerging Economies

    New Genetic Technologies for Global Food Production

    Edición de David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings ...
    World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to feed this growing population. No single solution will solve this problem but recent developments in the genetic technologies of plant breeding can help to increase agricultural efficiencies and save people from hunger in a sustainable manner, ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD