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  • Community Action for Conservation

    Mexican Experiences

    Edición de Luciana Porter-Bolland, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Claudia Camacho-Benavides, Susannah R. McCandless ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation in Mexico. The volume explores vivid examples and case studies that illustrate some of the critical issues at stake, including the participation of local communities in national and global conservation, indigenous and local perceptions of conservation initiatives in Southern Mexico, and challenges in ICCA governance and ecotourism. ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    de Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Landslide Ecology

    de Lawrence R. Walker, Aaron B. Shiels ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Despite their often dangerous and unpredictable nature, landslides provide fascinating templates for studying how soil organisms, plants and animals respond to such destruction. The emerging field of landslide ecology helps us understand these responses, aiding slope stabilisation and restoration and contributing to the progress made in geological approaches to landslide prediction and mitigation. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Satoyama

    The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan

    Edición de K. Takeuchi, R.D. Brown, I. Washitani, A. Tsunekawa, M. Yokohari ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Japan’s traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate. The carefully managed coppice woodlands on the hillsides, the villages strung along the base of the hills, and the carefully tended paddy fields of rural Japan made possible the sustainable interaction of nature and humans. Radical changes in the ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western US

    Causes, Consequences, and Management Implications

    Edición de Jeanne C. Chambers, Cynthia S. Brown, Matthew J. Germino ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to the transformation of the earth’s surface. The problem is particularly notable with a suite of exotic grasses in the Bromus genus in the arid and semiarid regions that dominate the western United States, which extend from the dry basins near the Sierra and Cascade ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene

    The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story

    Edición de Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt, Sally Archibald, Norman Owen-Smith ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values rivalling those of much larger parks sometimes through, and sometimes despite, strong management ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Descriptive Taxonomy

    The Foundation of Biodiversity Research

    Edición de Mark F. Watson, Chris H. C. Lyal, Colin A. Pendry ...
    Series Libro 84 - Systematics Association Special Volume Series
    In an age when biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, it is vital that floristic and faunistic information is up to date, reliable and easily accessible for the formulation of effective conservation strategies. Electronic data management and communication are transforming descriptive taxonomy radically, enhancing both the collection and dissemination of crucial data on biodiversity. ... Leer más

    $127.99 USD

  • Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture

    Edición de Bojie Fu, Bruce Jones K ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Climate change and the pressures of escalating human demands on the environment have had increasing impacts on landscapes across the world. In this book, world-class scholars discuss current and pressing issues regarding the landscape, landscape ecology, social and economic development, and adaptive management. Topics include the interaction between landscapes and ecological processes, landscape ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • Climate - Vegetation:

    Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands

    de M.A. Zahran ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.Yet while there are many books on the flora of the countries fringing the important desert countries of the Mediterranean and Red ... Leer más

    $188.09 USD

  • Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions

    de John R. Wilson, F. Dane Panetta, Cory Lindgren ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is that proactive management can limit negative impacts, reduce risks and save money. This book explores how to detect and respond to alien plant incursions, summarising the most current literature, providing practical recommendations and reviewing the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Arsenic & Rice

    de Andrew A. Meharg, Fang-Jie Zhao ...
    Rice is the staple food for half of the world’s population. Consumption of rice is the major exposure route globally to the class one, non-threshold carcinogen inorganic arsenic. This book explains the sources of arsenic to paddy soils and the biogeochemical processes and plant physiological attributes of paddy soil-rice ecosystems that lead to high concentrations of arsenic in rice grain. It ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Flammable Australia

    Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World

    Edición de Richard J Williams, A Malcolm Gill, Ross A Bradstock ...
    In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia’s highly diverse plants and animals. Central to this is the exploration of the concept of the fire regime – the cumulative pattern of fires and their ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD