Conservation of the environment Books
Temple University Press,U.S. Environmental Ethics and Forestry
Book SynopsisDuring the past twenty-five years, North American forestry has received increasingly vigorous scrutiny. Critics including the environmentalists, environmental scientists, representatives of public interest groups, and many individual citizens have expressed concerns about forestry's basic assumptions and methods, as well as its practical outcomes. Criticism has centered on such issues as the exploitation of forests for timber production, the reduction and fragmentation of old-growth habitats, the destruction of biodiversity, the degradation of grasslands through grazing practices, lack of government attention to recreation facilities, silvicultural methods like clearcutting and the use of herbicides and pesticides, the exportation of industrial forestry techniques to other parts of the world, and the use of public monies to provide services for private resource companies, as in the creation of logging roads. This rising tide of public scrutiny has led many foresters to suspect that their \u0022contract\u0022 with society to manage forests using their best professional judgment has been undermined. Some of these professionals, as well as some of their critics, have begun to reexamine their old beliefs and to look for new ways of practicing forestry. Part of this reflective process has entailed new directions in environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. This reader brings together some of the new thinking in this area. Here students of the applied environmental and natural resource sciences, as well as the interested general reader, will discover a rich sampling of writings in environmental ethics and philosophy as they apply to forestry. Readings focus on basic ethical systems in forestry and forest management, philosophical issues in forestry ethics, codes of ethics in forestry and related natural resource sciences such as fisheries science and wildlife biology, Aldo Leopold's land ethic in forestry, ethical advocacy and whistleblowing in government resource agencies, the ethics of new forestry, ecoforestry, and public debate in forestry, as well as ethical issues in global forestry such as the responsibilities of forest corporations, environmentalists, and individual wood consumers. The volume contains materials from the founders of forestry ethics, such as Bernhard Fernow, Giford Pinchot, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold; from such organizations as the Society of American Foresters, the Wildlife Society, the American Fisheries Society, Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, and the Ecoforesters group, in addition to the writings by a variety of well-known environmental philosophers and foresters, including Holmes Rolston, Robin Attfield, Lawrence Johnson, Michael McDonald, Paul Wood, James E. Coufal, Raymond Craig, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Jeff DeBonis, Jim L. Bowyer, Alasdair Gunn, Doug Daigle, Alan G. McQuillan, Stephanie Kaza, Alan Drengson, Duncan Taylor, and Kathleen Dean Moore.Trade Review"...the articles in this reader create a rich foundation for discussion and for questioning the way we use and manage natural resources." -Journal of Environmental EducationTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments General Introduction PART I: ETHICAL SYSTEMS IN FORESTRY 1. The Economic Resource Model of Forests and Forestry Berhard Fernow: Forest and Forestry Defined Gifford Pinchot: Principles of Conservation Gifford Pinchot: The Use of the National Forests 2. John Muir on the Preservation of the Wild Forests of the West John Muir: The American Forests 3. Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic in Forestry Aldo Leopold: The Land Ethic PART II: TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN FORESTRY ETHICS 4. Multiple Values in Forests Holmes Rolston III: Values Deep in the Woods Holmes Rolston III: Aesthetic Experience in Forestry 5. The Rights of Trees and Other Natural Objects Robin Artfield The Good of Trees Lawrence E. Johnson: Holistic Entities--Species Lawrence E. Johnson: Ecointerests and Forest Fires PART III: CONTEMPORARY FORESTRY ETHICS 6. Basic Principles in Forestry Ethics Michael McDonald: First Principles for Professional Foresters Paul M. Wood: "The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number": Is This a Good Land-Use Ethic James E. Coufal: Environmental Ethics: Cogitations and Ruminations of a Forester The Ecoforestry Declaration of Interdependence 7. Codes of Ethics in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife Biology Code of Ethics for Members of the Society of American Foresters Code of Ethics and Standards for Professional Conduct for Wildlife Biologists, The Wildlife Society Code of Practices, American Fisheries' Society Code of Ethics, Oregon Chapter, American Fisheries Society A Code of Ethics for Government Service The Ecoforester's Way 8. Adopting a Land Ethic in the Society of American Foresters James E. Coufal: The Land Ethic Question Norwin E. Linnartz, Raymond S. Craig, and M. B. Dickerman: Land Ethic Canon Recommended by Committee Holmes Rolston III and James Coufal: A Forest Ethic and Multivalue Forest Management: The Integrity of Forests and of Foresters Are Bound Together Raymond S. Craig: Further Development of a Land Ethic Canon Raymond S. Craig: Land Ethic Canon Proposal: A Report from the Task Force 9. Advocating New Environmental Ethics in Public Natural Resource Agencies Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Ethics and Environmental Advocacy Inner Voice AFSEEE Vision: Strategy for Forest Service Reform Jeff DeBonis: Speaking Out: A Letter to the Chief of the U. S. Forest Service F. Dale Robertson: Chief Robertson Responds On Speaking Out: Fighting for Resource Ethics in the BLM Whistleblower Spills Beans on North Kaibab A Combat Biologist Calls It Quits: An Interview with Al Espinosa Tongass Employees Speak Out Cheri Brooks: Enough is Enough! A Tongass Timber Beast Puts His Foot Down 10. Ethical Issues in Global Forestry James L. Bowyer: Responsible Environmentalism: The Ethical Features of Forest Harvest and Wood Use on a Global Scale Alastair S. Gunn: Environmental Ethics and Tropical Rain Forests: Should Greens Have Standing? Doug Daigle: Globalization of the Timber Trade 11. New Forestry, New Forest Philosopher Alan G. McQuillan: Cabbages and Kings: The Ethics and Aesthetics of New Forestry Stephanie Kaza: Ethical Tensions in the Northern Forest Alan Drengson and Duncan Taylor: An Overview of Ecoforestry: Introduction EPILOGUE Kathleen Dean Moore: Traveling the Logging Road, Coast Range Selected Bibliography Index
£72.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Environmental Ethics and Forestry
Book SynopsisDuring the past twenty-five years, North American forestry has received increasingly vigorous scrutiny. Critics including the environmentalists, environmental scientists, representatives of public interest groups, and many individual citizens have expressed concerns about forestry's basic assumptions and methods, as well as its practical outcomes. Criticism has centered on such issues as the exploitation of forests for timber production, the reduction and fragmentation of old-growth habitats, the destruction of biodiversity, the degradation of grasslands through grazing practices, lack of government attention to recreation facilities, silvicultural methods like clearcutting and the use of herbicides and pesticides, the exportation of industrial forestry techniques to other parts of the world, and the use of public monies to provide services for private resource companies, as in the creation of logging roads. This rising tide of public scrutiny has led many foresters to suspect that their \u0022contract\u0022 with society to manage forests using their best professional judgment has been undermined. Some of these professionals, as well as some of their critics, have begun to reexamine their old beliefs and to look for new ways of practicing forestry. Part of this reflective process has entailed new directions in environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. This reader brings together some of the new thinking in this area. Here students of the applied environmental and natural resource sciences, as well as the interested general reader, will discover a rich sampling of writings in environmental ethics and philosophy as they apply to forestry. Readings focus on basic ethical systems in forestry and forest management, philosophical issues in forestry ethics, codes of ethics in forestry and related natural resource sciences such as fisheries science and wildlife biology, Aldo Leopold's land ethic in forestry, ethical advocacy and whistleblowing in government resource agencies, the ethics of new forestry, ecoforestry, and public debate in forestry, as well as ethical issues in global forestry such as the responsibilities of forest corporations, environmentalists, and individual wood consumers. The volume contains materials from the founders of forestry ethics, such as Bernhard Fernow, Giford Pinchot, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold; from such organizations as the Society of American Foresters, the Wildlife Society, the American Fisheries Society, Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, and the Ecoforesters group, in addition to the writings by a variety of well-known environmental philosophers and foresters, including Holmes Rolston, Robin Attfield, Lawrence Johnson, Michael McDonald, Paul Wood, James E. Coufal, Raymond Craig, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Jeff DeBonis, Jim L. Bowyer, Alasdair Gunn, Doug Daigle, Alan G. McQuillan, Stephanie Kaza, Alan Drengson, Duncan Taylor, and Kathleen Dean Moore.Trade Review"...the articles in this reader create a rich foundation for discussion and for questioning the way we use and manage natural resources." -Journal of Environmental EducationTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments General Introduction PART I: ETHICAL SYSTEMS IN FORESTRY 1. The Economic Resource Model of Forests and Forestry Berhard Fernow: Forest and Forestry Defined Gifford Pinchot: Principles of Conservation Gifford Pinchot: The Use of the National Forests 2. John Muir on the Preservation of the Wild Forests of the West John Muir: The American Forests 3. Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic in Forestry Aldo Leopold: The Land Ethic PART II: TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN FORESTRY ETHICS 4. Multiple Values in Forests Holmes Rolston III: Values Deep in the Woods Holmes Rolston III: Aesthetic Experience in Forestry 5. The Rights of Trees and Other Natural Objects Robin Artfield The Good of Trees Lawrence E. Johnson: Holistic Entities--Species Lawrence E. Johnson: Ecointerests and Forest Fires PART III: CONTEMPORARY FORESTRY ETHICS 6. Basic Principles in Forestry Ethics Michael McDonald: First Principles for Professional Foresters Paul M. Wood: "The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number": Is This a Good Land-Use Ethic James E. Coufal: Environmental Ethics: Cogitations and Ruminations of a Forester The Ecoforestry Declaration of Interdependence 7. Codes of Ethics in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife Biology Code of Ethics for Members of the Society of American Foresters Code of Ethics and Standards for Professional Conduct for Wildlife Biologists, The Wildlife Society Code of Practices, American Fisheries' Society Code of Ethics, Oregon Chapter, American Fisheries Society A Code of Ethics for Government Service The Ecoforester's Way 8. Adopting a Land Ethic in the Society of American Foresters James E. Coufal: The Land Ethic Question Norwin E. Linnartz, Raymond S. Craig, and M. B. Dickerman: Land Ethic Canon Recommended by Committee Holmes Rolston III and James Coufal: A Forest Ethic and Multivalue Forest Management: The Integrity of Forests and of Foresters Are Bound Together Raymond S. Craig: Further Development of a Land Ethic Canon Raymond S. Craig: Land Ethic Canon Proposal: A Report from the Task Force 9. Advocating New Environmental Ethics in Public Natural Resource Agencies Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Ethics and Environmental Advocacy Inner Voice AFSEEE Vision: Strategy for Forest Service Reform Jeff DeBonis: Speaking Out: A Letter to the Chief of the U. S. Forest Service F. Dale Robertson: Chief Robertson Responds On Speaking Out: Fighting for Resource Ethics in the BLM Whistleblower Spills Beans on North Kaibab A Combat Biologist Calls It Quits: An Interview with Al Espinosa Tongass Employees Speak Out Cheri Brooks: Enough is Enough! A Tongass Timber Beast Puts His Foot Down 10. Ethical Issues in Global Forestry James L. Bowyer: Responsible Environmentalism: The Ethical Features of Forest Harvest and Wood Use on a Global Scale Alastair S. Gunn: Environmental Ethics and Tropical Rain Forests: Should Greens Have Standing? Doug Daigle: Globalization of the Timber Trade 11. New Forestry, New Forest Philosopher Alan G. McQuillan: Cabbages and Kings: The Ethics and Aesthetics of New Forestry Stephanie Kaza: Ethical Tensions in the Northern Forest Alan Drengson and Duncan Taylor: An Overview of Ecoforestry: Introduction EPILOGUE Kathleen Dean Moore: Traveling the Logging Road, Coast Range Selected Bibliography Index
£33.15
Temple University Press,U.S. Images Of Animals
Book SynopsisSeeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as \u0022in an affectionate frame of mind\u0022; for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists andbehavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen Crist's analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior, the difference \u0022is that in the reader's mind the very image of the cat's 'body' is transfigured...from an experiencing subject...into a vacant object.\u0022 Images of Animals examines the literature of behavioral science, revealing how works with the common aim of documenting animal lives, habits, and instincts describe \u0022realities that are worlds apart.\u0022 Whether the writer affirms the Cartesian verdict of an unbridgeable chasm between animals and humans or the Darwinian panorama of evolutionary continuity, the question of animal mind is ever present and problematic in behavioral thought. Comparing the naturalist writings of Charles Darwin, Jean Henri Fabre, and George and Elizabeth Peckham to works of classical ethology by Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen and of contemporary sociobiology, Crist demonstrates how words matter. She does not attempt to defend any of these constructions as a faithful representation of animal existence, but to show how each internally coherent view molds the reader's understanding of animals. Rejecting the notion that \u0022a neutral language exists, or can be constructed, which yields incontestably objective accounts of animal behavior,\u0022 Crist argues that \u0022language is not instrumental in the depiction of animals and, in particular, it is never impartial with respect to the question of animal mind.\u0022Trade Review"From anthorpomorphism to zoomorphism, Crist analyzes the language used to portray animal behavior in the behavioral science literature: from Darwin's stance of evolutionary continuity to ethologist Samuel Barnett's disavowal of studying anything other than observable behavior in 'realities that are worlds apart.'" -Book News "...an important exposition of matters of great importance in understanding the relationships of human knowledge and animal actors and the intersection of human language and animal behavior." -Isis "...an original, insightful, sophisticated, and lucidly written analysis of the powerful role that language plays in constructing our understanding of animal life. ... very much worth the attention of all those interested in how language shapes the way we think, and how, as human minds approach the subject of animal minds, anthropomorphism may have something going for it." -Science, Technology, and Human Values "The author critically reviews the observation language of historical contributors to the study of animal behavior (Darwin, naturalists, ethologists, behaviorists and sociobiologists)." -The Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Significance of Language in Portraying Animals 1. Darwin's Anthropomorphism 2. Lifeworld and Subjectivity: Naturalists' Portrait of Animals 3. The Ethological Constitution of Animals as Natural Objects 4. Genes and Their Animals: The Language of Sociobiology 5. Words as Icons: Comparative Images of Courtship 6. Unraveling the Distinction Between Action and Behavior Notes Bibliography Index
£25.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Book SynopsisThis fifth installment of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology continues this series’ outstanding reviews in diverse topics in ecology and conservation science and policy. Included are papers on protection of orangutans; environmental governmentality, economic corporations, and ecological ethics; impact of Nature on experience and cognitive and mental health; consequences of vulture population declines worldwide; ecology and management of white-tailed deer; controlling the spread of invasive plants; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; the boreal forest ecosystem; effects of organic farming on biodiversity and ecosystems; ecology of anopheles mosquitoes; ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria; and climate change and ecology of Artic vertebrates. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1749-6632. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.Trade Review“This special volume deserves a wider reading audience than ecologists and conservation researchers (for whom it is primarily intended). It should be read by all of us in environmental, pollution, and human ecology research. It offers most useful material to be discussed in classes on the interdisciplinary nature of environmental sciences.” (International Journal for Environment and Pollution, 1 June 2014) "It offers most useful material to be discussed in classes on the interdisciplinary nature of environmental sciences." (Int. J. Environment and Pollution, 1 October 2013) Table of ContentsEco-evolutionary dynamics in a changing world 1 Ilkka Hanski The influence of species interactions on geographic range change under climate change 18 Jessica J. Hellmann, Kirsten M. Prior, and Shannon L. Pelini Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box 29 Erik Meijaard, Serge Wich, Marc Ancrenaz, and Andrew J. Marshall Ecology and management of white-tailed deer in a changing world 45 William J. McShea Dropping dead: causes and consequences of vulture population declines worldwide 57 Darcy L. Ogada, Felicia Keesing, and Munir Z. Virani Modeling population dynamics, landscapes structure, and management decisions for controlling the spread of invasive plants 72 Paul Caplat, Shaun Coutts, and Yvonne M. Buckley Sustainable seaweed cutting? The rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) industry of Maine and the Maritime Provinces 84 Robin Hadlock Seeley and William H. Schlesinger Artificial persons against nature: environmental governmentality, ecomomic corporations, and ecological ethics 104 Michael S. Northcott The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health 118 Gregory N. Bratman, J. Paul Hamilton, and Gretchen C. Daily Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) : game changer or just another quick fix? 137 Oscar Venter and Lian Pin Koh The boreal forest as a cultural landscape 151 Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Artic vertebrates 166 Oliver Gilg, Kit M. Kovacs, Jon Aars, Jérôme Fort, Gilles Gauthier, David Grémillet, Rolf A. Ims, Hans Meltofte, Jérôme Moreau, Eric Post, Niels Martin Schmidt, Glenn Yannic, and Loïc Bollache Effects of organic farming on biodiversity and ecosystem services: taking landscape complexity into account 191 Camilla Winqvist, Johan Ahnström, and Jan Bengtsson The ecology of Anopheles mosquitoes under climate change: case studies from the effects of deforestation in East African highlands 204 Yaw A. Afrane, Andrew K. Githeko, and Guiyun Yan Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria 211 Dennis A. LaPoine, Carter T. Atkinson, and Michael D. Samuel Dams in the Cadillac Desert: downstream effects in a geomorphic context 227 John L. Sabo, Kevin Bestgen, Will Graf, Tushar Sinha, and Ellen E. Wohl
£103.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and
Book SynopsisExamines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the worldTrade Review"[A] poignant expose of the environmental, public health and labor rights abuses of an industry that has come to symbolize progress and prosperity in the public eye. This broad anthology identifies the dark underbelly of the electronics revolution and seeks to ignite discussions between labor, environmentalist and human rights activists about how to address industry misconduct...a well-rounded understanding of challenges and struggles in the global electronics industry." Multinational Monitor "This is an excellent book. It is rare to see environment and labor issues brought together in a seamless fashion. This is an important contribution to the discussion of globalization and its effects--and to the understanding of the grassroots movements that have emerged in response."--Charles Levenstein, University of Massachusetts, Lowell "Challenging the Chip is ... an important work in chronicling the evolution of grassroots activism, corporate denial, and eventually, in some cases, corporate responsibility in the electronics industry." S E Journal "The editors have assembled an impressive collection of articles from leading academics and activists...Challenging the Chip judiciously uses photos, tables, charts, and diagrams with detailed explanations. In addition, the book is well documented with useful appendices." Multicultural Review "With twenty-five chapters, much of the value of this volume lies in the encyclopedic overview it provides of conditions in electronics manufacturing around the world...There are fascinating details strewn throughout the book...There is a valuable list of web resources and relevant organizations...The editors provide useful introductions to the volume and each section...but the strength of the book lies in the richness and variety of the empirical material rather than in any overarching explanations or insights. This book is an important intervention in significant public debate." Contemporary Sociology July 2007 "This sweeping, ambitious, highly substantive panorama of environmental outrages perpetrated by the electronics industry and its handmaiden governments and inspectorates is nothing if not concrete, literal, rich, and entirely convincing...Challenging the Chip is a valuable resource document, a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the substance of environmental changemaking in the 21st century." Environmental Politics August 2007 "Challenging the Chip is the story of those who valiantly fight to make the production of microchips a humane process and the products of chips safe for the environment... each of the essays provides valuable insight into one or more aspects of the chip industry... Challenging the Chip will be part of an effort to place the struggles of electronics workers front and center in the fight for social justice... It is certainly a must-read for any labor activist concerned with organizing the cutting edge of worldwide production: global electronics." Labor Studies Journal "Challenging the Chip is certainly the most comprehensive review of the social, health and environmental consequences of the electronics industry to date and provides a critical platform for developing new theoretical and empirical research on the political economy and ecology of the industry. The plethora of topics explored also highlights the multiplicity of disciplines that can contribute to debates about the chip industry, including the social sciences, public health, and environmental sciences. A most impressive feature of the book is the way in which it developed out of a collaborative partnership of intellectuals and activists with a shared vision of sustainability and justice. Overall, the book will be of interest to students of social science, environmental science, science and technology studies, political ecology, and anybody using a computer to read this book review." Electronic Green JournalTable of ContentsForeword: Technology Happens by Jim Hightower Introduction 1. The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World - Ted G. Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow Part I. Global Electronics 2. The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy - Boy Luthje; 3. Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry - Joseph LaDou; 4. Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing - Anibel Ferus-Comelo; 5. "Made in China": Electronics Workers in the World's Fastest Growing Economy - Apo Leong and Sanjiv Pandita; 6. Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry - Tira Foran and David A. Sonnenfeld; 7. Electronic Workers in India - Sanjiv Pandita; 8. Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Central and Eastern Europe's Semiconductor Plants - Andrew Watterson Part II. Environmental Justice And Labor Rights 9. From Grassroots to Global: SVTC's Milestones in Building a Movement for Corporate Accountability and Sustainability in the High-Tech Industry - Leslie Byster and Ted G. Smith; 10. The Struggle of Occupational Health in Silicon Valley - Amanda Hawes with David N. Pellow; 11. Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley - David N. Pellow and Glenna Matthews; 12. Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock: Freedom to Kill? (Scotland) - James McCourt; 13. Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border - Connie Garcia and Amelia Simpson; 14. Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronic Industry (Mexico) - Raquel E. Partida Rocha; 15. Breaking the Silicon Silence: Giving Voice to Health and Environmental Impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park - Shenglin Chang, Hua-mei Chiu, and Wenling Tu; 16. Human Lives Valued Less than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by Pollution Fighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan) - Yu-ling Ku; 17. Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies - Robert Steiert Part III. E-Waste & Extended Producer Responsibility 18. The Electronics Production Lifecycle. From Toxics to Sustainability: Getting Off the Toxic Treadmill - Leslie Byster and Ted G. Smith; 19. High-Tech Pollution in Japan: Growing Problems, Alternative Solutions - Fumikazu Yoshida; 20. High-Tech's Dirty Little Secret: Economics and Ethics of the Electronic Waste Trade - Jim Puckett; 21. High-tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives: E-waste in Delhi (India) - Ravi Agarwal and Kishore Wankhade; 22. Importing Extended Producer Responsibility for Electronic Equipment into the United States - Chad Raphael and Ted G. Smith; 23. International Environmental Agreements and the Information Technology Industry - Ken Geiser and Joel Tickner; 24. Design Change in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation in Sweden and Japan - Naoko Tojo; 25. ToxicDude.com: the Dell Market Campaign (USA) - David Wood and Robin Schneider
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Temple University Press,U.S. Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the American lawn and how caring for it impacts people's livesTrade Review"[Robbins] offers a clever exploration of the political ecology and actor network theory, and a sharp insight into the cynicism of capitalism in the form of the chemical industry. That is a lot for a slim, nicely illustrated and well-written book to achieve, but it does it with style and intelligence... [T]he book is readable and wide-ranging in its arguments...its analysis is relevant wherever suburban values extend... This book should be widely read and discussed." -Environmental ConservationTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 : Explaining Lawn People " A Profile of Lawn People " Interrogating Assumptions in Apolitical Economy " The Mutual Tyrannies of Urban Political Ecology Chapter 2 : Is the Lawn an Expression of American Culture? " The Manor House Tradition: Labor, Land and Grass " Ecological Imperialism and American Turf " The American Law Tradition " Democratic Landscape? The Spread of the Modern Lawn " Lawn Culture for Lawn Subjects Chapter 3 : Does the Lawn Necessarily Require Inputs? " What is Turfgrass and How Does it Grow? " Turfgrass Structure and Growth " Why Lawns Need So Much Care? " The Lawn's needs become those of the Turfgrass Subject Chapter 4 : Are Lawn Inputs a Hazzard? " The Dawn and Maturing of Lawn Chemistry " The Contemporary Chemical Suite " Lawn Risks Defy Regulation Chapter 5 : Does the Industry Meet or Produce Demand? " Demand or Supply? " The Lawn Commodity Chain " Producers: Searching for Buyers " Applicators: Tending the Weed Business Chapter 6 : Do Lawn People Choose Lawns? " Chemical Communities " The Lawns of Kingberry Court " Risk Citizens, Contradiction Reconcilers, Networked Actors Chapter 7 : Can Lawn People Choose Alternatives? " Landscape Alternatives " Elusiveness of Alternatives " Are Lawn Alternatives really Alternative? Chapter 8 : Becoming Turfgrass Subjects " Anxiety, Objects, Subjects and Political Economy " Epilogue: Rescuing the Environment from Determinism Appendix A: Suggestion and Sources for Lawn Alternatives " Some General Rules " Resources and Allies Appendix B: Data Development and Analysis " The National Homeowner Survey " The Applicator Survey " The Kingberry Court Interviews " The Land Cover Survey " Current Published Resources
£58.65
Island Press Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation
Book SynopsisMeeting today?s environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of ecological science and their applications, offering an essential overview of the way ecology can be used to devise strategies to conserve the health and functioning of ecosystems.
£16.99
J Ross Publishing Conservation Methods for Terrestrial Orchids
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£54.00
University of Utah Press,U.S. The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting
Book SynopsisFredrick Swanson tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. As supervisor of Montana's Bitterroot National Forest from 1935 to 1955, Brandborg engaged in a management style that promoted not only the well-being of the forest community but also the social and economic welfare of the local people. By relying on selective cutting, his goal was to protect the watersheds and wildlife habitats that are devastated by clear-cutting, and to prevent the job losses that follow such practices. Following his retirement, he became concerned that his agency was deviating from the practice of sustained-yield management of the forest's timber lands, and led a highly visible public outcry that became known as the Bitterroot controversy. Brandborg's behind-the-scenes lobbying contributed materially to the passage of the National Forest Management Act of 1976, the single most important law affecting public forestry since the creation of the Forest Service. Meticulously written, The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg articulates Brandborg's Progressive-era idealism and is based on extensive archival research in collections throughout the Rockies and the Northwest, including the Brandborg family papers. Swanson's crisp narration of how one national forest supervisor understood the intricate connection between the grasslands and forests under his care and the communities that were so dependent on these invaluable resources, opens a much larger story about the meaning of public lands in a democratic society.Trade Review "The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg is a tour de force. Swanson opens a much larger story about the meaning of public lands in a democratic society. This book will have a profound impact on our understanding of the environmental dilemmas and political controversies that have rocked the northern Rockies since the mid-twentieth century."—Char Miller, Director of Environmental Analysis and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College, and author of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism "'I was so impressed by the time and research that Fred put in for the research of this book," Stewart Brandborg [son of Guy Brandborg] said. "He traveled pretty much all over the West. He was tireless in his efforts to get the story on what my dad had done.'"—Ravalli Republic "The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg provides an apt illustration of how local citizens can affect meaningful and lasting changes on a national level. ...An important contribution to the history of national forest policy."—Western Historical Quarterly "Fred Swanson's elegant prose and insightful analysis tackles a controversial subject—public lands and the bureaucracies that manage them—to tell an engaging and significant story about a man who devoted his life to building sustainable lives for the ordinary folks who love, work, and protect the West."—Roundup MagazineTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Took Creek Saddle, Southwestern Montana, August 19711. The Forests of the Bitterroot: 1878-19302. Pinchot’s Corps: 1881-19243. From the Snake to the Selway: 1924-19354. Protection Forest: 1935-19395. Forests for the People: 1937-19416. To Manage and Conserve: 1941-19547. Timber Boom: 1941-19558. The Life of the Community: 1943-19529. Holding the Line: 1948-195810. Redeeming the Forest: 1955-196211. Staking Out the Selway: 1939-196712. A Fighting Democratic Faith: 1964-196913. Collision Course: 1965-196914. Engineering the Resistance: 1969-197015. Under the Microscope: 197016. A Function of the University: 197117. Forestry on Trial: 1970-197118. Reporters to the Scene: 1971-197319. Maneuvers and Negotiations: 1971-197420. Charting a Workable Future: 1971-197621. Legacy of a Conflict: 1976-2006AfterwordNotesBibliography
£24.71
University of Utah Press,U.S. Utah's Air Quality Issues: Problems and Solutions
Book SynopsisAlthough Utah is a land of outdoor wonders, the state has a distressing air pollution problem. In some areas like Salt Lake City, geography exacerbates the issue; air quality in the Wasatch Front metropolitan region often ranks among the worst in the nation. Utah's Air Quality Issues: Problems and Solutions is the first book to tackle the subject. Written by scholars in a variety of fields, including chemical engineering, economics, atmospheric science, health care, law, parks and recreation and public policy, the book provides a one-stop resource on the causes, impacts, and possible solutions to the state's air quality dilemma. This volume is a must read for anyone wanting to understand Utah's air pollution problem and what can be done about it.Trade Review“This collection is a reference for anyone entering into or acting within air quality 'space.' Readers will find rigorously researched background information that can help provide the scientific and social grounding to solve air quality issues. They also can learn important vocabulary for interacting with people from different sectors. The potential service provided by this collection is enormous.” —Deborah Burney-Sigman, executive director of Breathe Utah “Utah’s Air Quality Issues is aimed at those seeking an understandable overview of the major issues. Its ten chapters cover air quality science, economics, public policy, environmental justice, and other germane topics. Each chapter provides unique information needed to better understand the complexities surrounding air quality.” —Arnold Reitze, professor of environmental law, University of Utah
£32.21
University of Iowa Press Tending Iowa's Land: Pathways to a Sustainable
Book SynopsisIn the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa’s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.Trade Review“As a lifelong Iowan, this tapestry of science, history, and personal stories moved me to think about our changing climate and my own actions. While many of our current circumstances seem dire, Connie and the amazing team of contributors gave me hope by shining a bright light on the path forward."—Joe McGovern, president, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation."A must read for all Iowans."—Daryl Smith, former director, Tallgrass Prairie Center "—This dynamic history of Iowa’s water, soil, and air, paired with specific ideas for preserving and protecting our natural resources, is an excellent text for teachers and students studying environmental issues."—Barbara Ehlers, Upper Iowa UniversityTending Iowa’s Land is inspiring, as it is filled with examples of Iowans working to restore native plants, animals, and resources. May a host of other landowners join them—and the impressive group of academics and other professionals in this book—in leading our way to a resilient, regenerative future."—Teresa Opheim, director, Climate Land Leaders
£20.85
Island Press Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation
Book SynopsisA vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world's preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants--the latter to become his lifelong specialty. His memoir Naturalist, called "one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written" by the Los Angeles Times, is an inspiring account of Wilson's growth as a scientist and the evolution of the fields he helped define. This graphic edition, adapted by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by C.M.Butzer, brings Wilson's childhood and celebrated career to life through dynamic full-color illustrations and Wilson's own lyric writing. In this adaptation of Naturalist, vivid illustrations draw readers in to Wilson's lifelong quest to explore and protect the natural world. His success began not with an elite education but an insatiable curiosity about Earth's wild creatures, and this new edition of Naturalist makes Wilson's work accessible for anyone who shares his passion. On every page, striking art adds immediacy and highlights the warmth and sense of humor that sets Wilson's writing apart. Naturalist was written as an invitation--a reminder that curiosity is vital and scientific exploration is open to all of us. Each dynamic frame of this graphic adaptation deepens Wilson's message, renewing his call to discover and celebrate the little things of the world.
£19.94
Purdue University Press Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With
Book SynopsisWhat do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to the author's daughter, this collection presents ethical questions outdoor enthusiasts regularly face as they work and play in the natural world. The essays in this book explore environmentalism in a modern-day context, with topics including sustainability education, the current relevance of environmental writers from the past, and the uncertainty of what is meant by words like "naturalist," "solitude," and "wilderness." There is no attempt to direct readers to any particular environmental philosophy. Instead, Simpson encourages readers to articulate their own perspective based on personal experiences in nature. Though Essays to My Daughter is written by a father to his daughter, the insights within the volume-and the questions they provoke-are valuable to all members of the next generation as they grapple with their own relationship to the natural world.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Personal Philosophy and Individual Experiences Part I: The Pond and the Shack 1 The Good Oak Redux 2 Drowning Out All Our Muskrats 3 Wild Apples 4 Still Fishing 5 A Person's Leisure Time 6 Book Purge Part II: Sketches Here and There 7 Wisconsin East: A Small Square of Red 8 California With a Touch of Maine: Tide Pools East and West 9 Minnesota: Night of the Quintze 10 Iowa: The Birds of Iowa 11 Taiwan: Ascent of Jade Mountain 12 A Return to Taiwan: Old and American 13 Ontario: Goodbye, Deadbroke Island 14 Wisconsin West: Mark Twain on the Mekong 15 Wisconsin West: What About the Other Kids? 16 Three Outsdoorsmen and a Philosopher Part III: Continuums 17 The Preservationist and the Conservationist 18 The Wanderer and the Adventurer 19 The Homecomer and the Sojourner 20 The Romantic and the Scientist 21 The Restorer Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes About the Author
£16.16
New Village Press Cultivating Creativity
Book SynopsisA rich and playful resource for fostering creativity in the classroom The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression in the classroom. In this lively book, course instructors will find a wealth of creativity-awakening exercises and strategies that can be adapted to suit a variety of disciplines. More than a practical guide, this book uses a combination of playful design, full-color illustrations, participant reflections, and pedagogical reflection to encourage innovation. Readers can turn to the “Who, What, Where, How, and Why” chapters for guidance on developing exercises of their own, or flip to any page for a dose of inspiration before their next creative project. Today’s world is filled with nations, businesses, venture capitalists, and institutions of higher education in hot pursuit of “innovation.” Cultivating Creativity offers up new strategies for finding it and invites each reader to continue their search in a way only they can.Trade Review"Cultivating Creativity takes us on a deep dive into the power of creative thinking (and making). Through a collection of provocative exercises, Iain Robertson presents what he calls a “why-to manual” that makes the case for risk-taking and thinking outside the box to unlock the inner abilities of students, designers, and citizens." -- Jeff Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington"In this generous book, Iain shares his conviction that the work of cultivating creativity lies in unearthing and nourishing it, rather than teaching it. He invites readers to close their eyes and spin around just once so when they open their eyes, they might again see the world as the vast and strange place it is." -- Tammy Tasker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Educational Studies Department, University of Michigan"For any educator concerned with the “life” education of their students, I highly recommend they read, emulate, and, as Iain had hoped, elaborate on the content of this book. Iain and his colleagues have achieved what they set out to do: inspire, encourage, and provide an approach for all educators to help their students uncover their creative potential." -- John Koepke, Professor of Design, University of Minnesota"Cultivating Creativity may show us where the crux lies with discovery learning. The hidden potential of discovery lies in opening up the mind; in cherishing the path, not the goal; and finally, in playing." -- Rolf Reber, Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo"Iain’s work offers an ecosystem to experience and explore, not a path to follow. This book will resonate with anyone interested in harnessing the human capacity to create and to do so reflectively, joyfully, and ethically with an eye toward human flourishing as the most important goal of education." -- Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Michigan, Professor, Learning Sciences & Technology and Combined Program in Education & Psychology
£38.25
New Village Press Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley—how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares now in the drought, development, and wildfires that are the consequences of the colonial mind. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. As settlers, her ancestors lived the dream of Manifest Destiny, their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. When Dunlap’s generation inherited the land, she had already begun to wonder about its unspoken story. What had kept her ancestors from seeing and telling the truth of their history? What had they brought west with them from the very earliest colonial experience in New England? Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. It’s a powerful story that will awaken others to consider their own ancestors’ role in colonization and encourage them to begin reparations for the harmful actions of those who came before. More broadly, it offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.Trade Review"Louise Dunlap is not afraid to look at the truth and then tell the truth of her early California settler family, a reckoning that becomes an important history of Napa Valley’s wine country." -- Greg Sarris, Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; author of Becoming Story"How can European descendants of enslavers and colonizers face with honesty the brutal pain and destruction our ancestors wrought? How can we grieve and then begin to heal? In this bold and moving love letter to the land, Louise Dunlap breaks twelve generations of silence. A keen learner from Indigenous peoples and from the land she loves, Dunlap charts out a path toward rehumanization and healing. A beautifully-written memoir that is hard to put down." -- Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White"Louise Dunlap offers the reader a wonderful way of living as a part of the whole: the whole of ourselves, the whole of nature, and the whole of the cosmos. She is a wise Bodhisattva who has dedicated her practice to waking up for the benefit of us all, a courageous being who offers a pathway to decolonize our hearts and minds. And she lets us know that it is possible to do so." -- —Dr. Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, senior dharma teachers in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and directors of The Lotus Institute"What would Justice and Healing look like when the Land speaks and uncovers the Silence of centuries-old stories of theft and genocide? Now an Elder, Louise Dunlap tells the story of how the Land of the Wappo and Patwin spoke to her heart and soul and gave her the courage to uncover the Silence. I read this book with tears of grief and gratitude and a longing for a deeper sense of justice and healing." -- Leny Mendoza Strobel, Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies"Confronting the wrongs of the past is a way of honouring our ancestors, both those who have come before and those who are yet to come. We need to be taught by the failures and mistakes we have inherited and continue to reproduce in order to enable the possibility that only new mistakes will be made in the future. We need to be able to say: the buck stops here! This book is a step in that direction." -- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia"Louise Dunlap, in Inherited Silence, performs work very like a traditional healer with roots and herbs. Deep in the silences, the forests of the past, she unearths painful stories, absorbing them to remove any toxins they may carry. Then with love and compassion, she restores in them the healing properties of the land where they are rooted." -- Bobby Marie, community educator and activist, South Africa"For those of us still living on the land our ancestors stole for us, Inherited Silence shows us some of the first steps we must take towards healing and repair. Louise demonstrates that this work isn't about disowning our ancestors, but becoming closer to them by telling the truth of their times, committing to transform and transmute the trauma they caused, and not letting racial violence or climate chaos be the final chapter of their legacy." -- Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
£17.99
New Village Press Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley—how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares now in the drought, development, and wildfires that are the consequences of the colonial mind. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. As settlers, her ancestors lived the dream of Manifest Destiny, their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. When Dunlap’s generation inherited the land, she had already begun to wonder about its unspoken story. What had kept her ancestors from seeing and telling the truth of their history? What had they brought west with them from the very earliest colonial experience in New England? Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. It’s a powerful story that will awaken others to consider their own ancestors’ role in colonization and encourage them to begin reparations for the harmful actions of those who came before. More broadly, it offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.Trade Review"Louise Dunlap is not afraid to look at the truth and then tell the truth of her early California settler family, a reckoning that becomes an important history of Napa Valley’s wine country." -- Greg Sarris, Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; author of Becoming Story"How can European descendants of enslavers and colonizers face with honesty the brutal pain and destruction our ancestors wrought? How can we grieve and then begin to heal? In this bold and moving love letter to the land, Louise Dunlap breaks twelve generations of silence. A keen learner from Indigenous peoples and from the land she loves, Dunlap charts out a path toward rehumanization and healing. A beautifully-written memoir that is hard to put down." -- Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White"Louise Dunlap offers the reader a wonderful way of living as a part of the whole: the whole of ourselves, the whole of nature, and the whole of the cosmos. She is a wise Bodhisattva who has dedicated her practice to waking up for the benefit of us all, a courageous being who offers a pathway to decolonize our hearts and minds. And she lets us know that it is possible to do so." -- —Dr. Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, senior dharma teachers in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and directors of The Lotus Institute"What would Justice and Healing look like when the Land speaks and uncovers the Silence of centuries-old stories of theft and genocide? Now an Elder, Louise Dunlap tells the story of how the Land of the Wappo and Patwin spoke to her heart and soul and gave her the courage to uncover the Silence. I read this book with tears of grief and gratitude and a longing for a deeper sense of justice and healing." -- Leny Mendoza Strobel, Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies"Confronting the wrongs of the past is a way of honouring our ancestors, both those who have come before and those who are yet to come. We need to be taught by the failures and mistakes we have inherited and continue to reproduce in order to enable the possibility that only new mistakes will be made in the future. We need to be able to say: the buck stops here! This book is a step in that direction." -- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia"Louise Dunlap, in Inherited Silence, performs work very like a traditional healer with roots and herbs. Deep in the silences, the forests of the past, she unearths painful stories, absorbing them to remove any toxins they may carry. Then with love and compassion, she restores in them the healing properties of the land where they are rooted." -- Bobby Marie, community educator and activist, South Africa"For those of us still living on the land our ancestors stole for us, Inherited Silence shows us some of the first steps we must take towards healing and repair. Louise demonstrates that this work isn't about disowning our ancestors, but becoming closer to them by telling the truth of their times, committing to transform and transmute the trauma they caused, and not letting racial violence or climate chaos be the final chapter of their legacy." -- Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
£64.00
Texas A & M University Press Birdlife of the Gulf of Mexico
Book SynopsisThe Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important ecological regions in the world for birds. The mosaic of diverse habitats in the region provides numerous niches for birds. There are productive salt marshes, barrier islands, and sandy beaches for foraging and nesting; a direct pathway between North and Central and South America for migrating; and warm, tropical waters for wintering. Many species are residents all year around, some migrate through, and still others spend the winter along the shores. The Gulf Coast is home to a significant portion of the world’s population of Reddish Egret and Snowy Plover and a significant portion of the US breeding populations of certain birds, including the Sandwich Tern, Black Skimmer, and Laughing Gull. In total, there are more than 400 bird species that rely on the Gulf at some time during the year.Drawing on decades of fieldwork and data research, renowned ornithologist and behavioral ecologist Joanna Burger provides detailed descriptions of birdlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Burger records trends in bird population, behavior, and major threats and stressors affecting birds in the region, including the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. While some of this data exists in journal articles, research papers, and government reports, this is the first volume to weave together a comprehensive overview of the birds and related natural resources found in the Gulf of Mexico.Illustrated with over 900 color photographs, charts, and maps, this landmark reference volume will be immensely important for researchers, conservationists, land managers, birders, and wildlife lovers.
£63.75
Texas A & M University Press Wildlife Ecology and Management in Mexico
Book SynopsisMexico is the fourteenth largest country in the world and ranks fifth in biodiversity. Located in the transition zone between the temperate and tropical regions of North and South America, Mexico is an important migratory corridor for wildlife and also provides wintering habitat for several species of bats, monarch butterflies, and temperate North American nesting birds. Mexico faces several challenges to wildlife management and conservation efforts. While there is increased public education and acknowledgment of the valuable benefits wildlife provides, there is still much work to do to incentivize conservation efforts. Fortunately, there is growing recognition that Mexico's wildlife resources can be a critical component in the rural economic development of the country. Bringing together an international team of wildlife experts across North America, Wildlife Ecology and Management in Mexico provides information on the status, distribution, ecological relationships, and habitat requirements and management of the most important game birds and mammals in Mexico. It also reviews current threats and challenges facing wildlife conservation as well as strategies for resolving these issues. This reference is a valuable tool for wildlife biologists, wildlife management professionals, and anyone interested in conserving Mexico's wealth of natural resources. By laying out the challenges to conservation research, editors Raul Valdez and J. Alfonso Ortega-S. hope to encourage interdisciplinary communication and collaboration across borders.
£45.00
Texas A & M University Press It's More Than Fishing: The Art of Texas Trout
Book SynopsisThe only constant in fishing is that the fish are still trying to avoid being caught as hard today as they were 100 or 1,000 years ago. To improve as anglers, we must be willing to change and evolve."It's More Than Fishing is a how-to guide for Texas coastal fishing that addresses a number of key aspects of coastal angling, including the basics of patterning, fishing the Texas surf, choosing lures and baits, and what to keep in mind when hiring a fishing guide. In addition to these how-to elements, It's More Than Fishing also includes insight and information from marine biologist anglers about coastal and marine conservation. Author Patrick D. Murray has spent more than two decades as a marine conservation professional, and he emphasizes the critical role of recreational anglers in protecting marine resources. Each chapter begins with a handy summary to guide readers through the information, making it easy to jump around.Throughout the book, Murray reminds the reader that angling is part science, but it's also part art. Similar to yoga, culinary pursuits, and martial arts, angling is an evolving skill that has been in practice for centuries. Successful fishing requires a mixture of knowledge, practice, patience, and skill. Murray believes that if anglers view their pursuit as an art, they will only invest in developing their skills, but their passion for fishing and ocean resources will increase along with their catches.Trade Review“Pat Murray is my favorite fishing writer. This book brings my appreciation of his writing to a new level because we get to see the man who passionately loves fishing and who even more passionately loves conserving fish and their habitat in his element. This book will not only give you deep insight into catching specks and reds, it will inspire you truly appreciate the God-given gift that is coastal fishing.”- Chester Moore, wildlife journalist and editor in chief, Texas Fish & Game “If you want to catch more fish out of the Gulf, proceed to checkout right now. Murray’s simple yet cerebral conversation delicately balances focused details with broad concepts that make you want to set the book down and proceed immediately to the boat ramp, but you can’t because the writing is so damn good. Witty, insightful, experience-driven and somehow loaded with fresh new perspectives on one of mankind’s oldest pursuits, this book is the ¼ oz. gold spoon of fishing literature.”- Jesse Griffiths, author of Afield, A Chef's Guide to Preparing & Cooking Wild Game & Fish “Pat Murray’s latest book is an articulate and ordered brain dump that will have any avid saltwater angler nodding in agreement. A pleasant and easy read that is a combination of how to and what to do with a valuable dose of conservation philosophy thrown in for good measure.”- Larry McKinney, senior executive director, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
£18.36
Texas A & M University Press The Laguna Madre of Texas and Tamaulipas, Second
Book SynopsisThe Laguna Madre is the only hypersaline coastal lagoon on the North American continent and only one of five worldwide. The lagoon is renowned for its vast seagrass meadows, huge wintering redhead population, and bountiful fishing grounds. In 2000, the Nature Conservancy, whose mission is the conservation of biodiversity through protection of habitat, recognized the need to amass all known information about the Laguna Madre and implement a science-based conservation agenda. From those efforts came the first edition of this book. Now completely revised and updated, this second edition of The Laguna Madre of Texas and Tamaulipas is the culmination of two decades of additional research and continued conservation efforts in the region. Nearly 100 years of literature on the Laguna Madre and surrounding environments has been synthesized here. With 150 figures and illustrations, the book takes a broad and comprehensive look at both the Texan and Tamaulipan Laguna Madre. The value of this book for scientists, conservationists, resource managers, and policy makers involved in the future of the Texas and Mexico coasts is clear. Coastal residents, birders, anglers, and nature lovers who want to learn about and take care of the Laguna Madre will find this to be an indispensable guide.
£100.50
Texas A & M University Press Boggy Slough: A Forest, a Family, and a
Book SynopsisBoggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas’ Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state’s leading game and industrial forest management areas.A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs.The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million–acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family’s and the lumber company’s struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.
£35.96
University of Massachusetts Press Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands
Book SynopsisCape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs. Unfortunately, this unique sense of place is under threat. In recent decades, contemporary landscape practices have come to depend on environmentally stressful fertilizers and irrigation systems, replacing this sensitive ecoregion’s native flora with generic turfgrasses and popular commercial nursery trees and shrubs that could exist anywhere.Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands seeks to reverse this damaging trend by offering landscape professionals, local officials, and homeowners a sustainable approach to landscape design based on the ecoregion’s native plants and plant communities. Presenting detailed discussions of Cape Cod’s natural history, Jack Ahern focuses on the principal plant communities that define its landscape character and that are well adapted to local soils and growing conditions, including climate change. The book also includes strategies for ecological planting design and a portfolio of ecologically designed landscapes from the region.
£26.06
University of Massachusetts Press Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New
Book SynopsisA contemporary map of New England, scaled to the township level, brings to light a dense pattern of protected areas ringing almost every town and city in the region. Big and small, rural and urban, these green spaces represent more than a century of preservation efforts on the part of philanthropic foundations, planning professionals, state agencies, and most importantly, community-based conservation organizations. Taken together, they highlight one of the most significant advances in land stewardship in US history. Democratic Spaces explains how these protected places came into being and what they represent for New Englanders and the nation at large. While early New Englanders worked to save local fish, timber, and game resources from outside exploitation, no land-stewardship organizations existed before the founding of the Trustees of Public Reservations in Boston in 1891. Across a century of dramatic change, New England preservationists through this and other, smaller community-based land trusts preserved open spaces for an ever-widening circle of citizens.Trade ReviewDemocratic Spaces will be the standard reference for the history of the land trust movement in New England, and will be a useful reference for both scholars and citizens interested in understanding the context for the emergence of the land trust movement and possibilities for the future." - Michael Lewis, author of American Wilderness: A New History "Judd’s description of the complex and evolving arrangements to preserve land in the Northeast is edifying. This well-documented work reflects a great deal of research, often drawing on newspaper reports and other contemporary sources." - John Leshy, author of Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public LandsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Art of Public Improvement Iconography in Rural New England Chapter 2: Awakening the Preservation Spirit The Trustees of Public Reservations Chapter 3: Stewardship Strategies The Trustees in the Twentieth Century Chapter 4: The Land Trust Explosion Grassroots Preservation in the 1960s and 1970s Chapter 5: Reimagining Urban Spaces Preservation in the City, 1980–2000 Chapter 6: Middle-Way Preservation in the Era of Ecosystem Management, 1990–2010 Conclusion Notes Index
£24.61
University of Massachusetts Press Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New
Book SynopsisA contemporary map of New England, scaled to the township level, brings to light a dense pattern of protected areas ringing almost every town and city in the region. Big and small, rural and urban, these green spaces represent more than a century of preservation efforts on the part of philanthropic foundations, planning professionals, state agencies, and most importantly, community-based conservation organizations. Taken together, they highlight one of the most significant advances in land stewardship in US history. Democratic Spaces explains how these protected places came into being and what they represent for New Englanders and the nation at large. While early New Englanders worked to save local fish, timber, and game resources from outside exploitation, no land-stewardship organizations existed before the founding of the Trustees of Public Reservations in Boston in 1891. Across a century of dramatic change, New England preservationists through this and other, smaller community-based land trusts preserved open spaces for an ever-widening circle of citizens.Trade ReviewDemocratic Spaces will be the standard reference for the history of the land trust movement in New England, and will be a useful reference for both scholars and citizens interested in understanding the context for the emergence of the land trust movement and possibilities for the future." - Michael Lewis, author of American Wilderness: A New History "Judd’s description of the complex and evolving arrangements to preserve land in the Northeast is edifying. This well-documented work reflects a great deal of research, often drawing on newspaper reports and other contemporary sources." - John Leshy, author of Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands
£72.25
University Press of Mississippi The Lakes of Pontchartrain: Their History and Environments
Book SynopsisA vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical and environmental research on the basin, with emphasis on its environmental degradation and the efforts to restore and protect this estuarine system. He also explores the current biological condition of the lakes.Hastings begins with the geological formation of the lakes and the relationship between Native Americans and the water they referred to as Okwa'ta, the ""wide water."" From the historical period, he describes the forays of French explorer Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville in 1699, and traces the environmental history of the basin through the development of the New Orleans metropolitan area. Using the lakes for transportation and then recreation, the surrounding population burgeoned, and this growth resulted in severe water pollution and other environmental problems. In the 1980s the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation led a concerted drive to restore the lakes, an ongoing effort that has proved significant.
£27.96
WW Norton & Co The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six
Book SynopsisIn November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought solutions within the realm of possibility, the obstacles to enacting real revolution were still many. Now, confronting these controversies head-on, two scholars use a series of ground-breaking arguments to frame the problem in human terms, showing us how vested interests have been able to control the conversation, tracing a line of reasoning that will break through the seemingly impenetrable barriers of political obfuscation. This watershed book evokes the battle cries of Naomi Klein and the exigency of Rachel Carson, laying the groundwork for a path to environmental salvation.Trade Review"...the extended fictional debate illuminates key scientific, social and political complexities, and humanizes an issue often perceived as abstract." -- Nature
£17.09
University of South Carolina Press Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry
Book SynopsisIn the early 1930s Chlotilde R. Martin of Beaufort, South Carolina, wrote a series of articles for the Charleston News and Courier documenting the social and economic transformation of the lowcountry coast as an influx of wealthy northerners began buying scores of old local plantations. Her articles combined the name-dropping chatter of the lowcountry social register with reflections on the tension between past and present in the old rice and cotton kingdoms of South Carolina. Edited by Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, Northern Money, Southern Land collects Martin's articles and augments them with photographs and historical annotations to carry their stories forward to the present day.As Martin recounted, the new owners of these coastal properties ranked among the most successful businessmen in the country and included members of the Doubleday, Du Pont, Hutton, Kress, Whitney, Guggenheim, and Vanderbilt families. Among the later owners are media magnate Ted Turner and boxer Joe Frazier. The plantation houses they bought and the homes they built are some of the most important architectural structures in the Palmetto State--although many are rarely seen by the public. In some fifty articles drawn from interviews with property owners and visits to their newly acquired lands, Martin described almost eighty estates covering some three hundred thousand acres of Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Colleton, and Berkeley counties. Martin's lively sketches included stories of wealthy young playboys who brought Broadway showgirls down for decadent parties, tales of the first nudist colony in America, and exchanges with African American farmhands who wanted to travel to New York to see their employers' primary homes, which they had been assured were piled high with gold and silver. In the process, Martin painted a fascinating landscape of a southern coastline changing hands and on the verge of dramatic redevelopment. Her tales, here updated by Cuthbert and Hoffius, will bring modern readers onto many little-known plantations in the southern part of South Carolina and provide a wealth of knowledge about the history of vexing tensions between development and conservation that remain a defining aspect of lowcountry life.Trade ReviewExpertly researched and richly illustrated, John Bryan's latest contribution to South Carolina's history provides both a chronicle of past achievements and a prelude to future accomplishments, acquisitions, and discoveries at what is one of the Palmetto State's most venerable landmarks and institutions."" - John Sherrer, Historic Columbia""Meticulously researched, this handsome tome explores the complex history of the South Caroliniana Library, weaving together layers of personal stories using collections held by the very institution it seeks to describe. Future scholars will be able to look to this volume for inspiration--and its excellent bibliography!"" - Edward Blessing, South Caroliniana Library
£20.66
University of South Carolina Press Brookgreen Gardens: Ever Changing. Simply
Book SynopsisAn oasis of art and nature, Brookgreen Gardens is America's first public sculpture garden and largest collection of American figurative sculpture. Founded in 1931 by Archer Milton Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington, its lush South Carolina coastal location is an exquisite setting for the more than two thousand works by four hundred twenty-five artists-including more than one hundred sculptures and other works by Anna Huntington, many placed in the gardens she designed. In 1984, Brookgreen was designated as a National Historic Landmark, highlighting the number of women sculptors whose work is presented in the collection, as well as the significance of the work of Anna Huntington. Today, Brookgreen has become a cultural institution unlike any other, blending sculpture, historic sites, botanical gardens, and the Lowcountry Zoo. As Brookgreen begins its ninetieth year, this volume celebrates the art, nature, and history ensconced in its 9,127 acres. More than one hundred fifty color photographs; an introduction by president and CEO, Page Kiniry; and a foreword by its chairman of the board, Dick Rosen, bring Brookgreen Gardens to life on the page.
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University of Nevada Press Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical
Book SynopsisThe Colorado River is a river in crisis. Persistent drought, climate change, growing demands from ongoing urbanization threaten this life-source to approximately 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico. Joining these challenges are our nation's deeply rooted beliefs about the region as a frontier, garden, and wilderness that have created competing agendas about the river as something to both exploit and preserve. Over the last century and a half, we have looked to science, law, and policy to solve our water resource challenges. Yet today's circumstances demand additional perspectives to foster a more sustainable relationship with the Colorado.Tributary Voices responds to these concerns by reclaiming a variety of neglected and lesser-known perspectives about the river and its surrounding landscapes. Spanning a period from the early twentieth century to the present, these "tributary voices" include nature writing about the Colorado River Basin's deserts, women's boating narratives of their Grand Canyon adventures, critiques of dam development, and appeals for river restoration from the Basin's Latina/o communities, claims of water sovereignty by numerous American Indian authors and tribal nations, and teachings about environmental stewardship and provident living particular to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the heart of this wide-ranging analysis is the role that stories play in reshaping attitudes about water and one's relationship to other river stakeholders. Drawing upon literature, film, websites, journals, public policy documents, and other writing, this innovative study models an interdisciplinary approach to water governance that reinvigorates our imagination to foster a more sustainable and equitable Colorado River water ethic
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University of Nevada Press Cheatgrass: Fire and Forage on the Range
Book SynopsisCheatgrass (Bromus tectorum, downy brome) is an exotic species that appeared in North American in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid rangelands between the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains. A shallow-rooted annual, it is the first grass to appear after the region's long, cold winters and has become an important forage plant for livestock and wildlife. It is also a major environmental hazard in the sagebrush plant communities where it has established itself, providing fuel for the ferocious wildfires that have ravaged so much of the Great Basin since the mid-twentieth century.Cheatgrass is the first comprehensive study of this highly invasive plant that has changed the ecology of millions of acres of western rangeland. Authors James A. Young and Charlie D. Clements have researched the biology and impact of cheatgrass for four decades. Their work addresses the subject from several perspectives: the history of the invasion; the origins and biology of cheatgrass, including the traits that allow it to adapt so successfully to a wide range of soil and precipitation conditions; its genetic variations, breeding system, and patterns of distribution; its impact on grazing management; and the role it plays, both positive and negative, in the lives of high desert wildlife. The authors also describe efforts to control cheatgrass and offer some new approaches that have the potential to halt its further expansion.Table of Contents The Many Faces of Cheatgrass Developing a Perspective of the Environment Preadaptation of Cheatgrass for the Great Basin Scientific Perceptions of Cheatgrass Seral Continuum: The First Step Seral Continuum: Intermediate Step Seral Truncation The Competitive Nature of Cheatgrass Genetic Variation and Breeding System Control of Cheatgrass and Seeding Prior to Herbicides Control and Seeding with Herbicides Revegetation Plant Material Cheatgrass and Nitrogen Grazing Management Cheatgrass and Wildlife Wildfire on the Range Conclusions Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Plants Mentioned in the Text Notes
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Texas A&M University Press Advanced White-Tailed Deer Management: The
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Texas A&M University Press Duck Walk: A Birder's Improbable Path to Hunting
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Texas A&M University Press Applied Wildlife Habitat Management, Second
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Texas A&M University Press Parking Lot Birding
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University Press of Florida Imperiled Reef: The Fascinating, Fragile Life of
Book SynopsisThis book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, this reef is the second largest coral structure on the planet. Imperiled Reef searches out the breathtaking intricacies of this endangered ecological treasure.Sandy Sheehy describes in eloquent detail the hard and soft corals, sponges, and myriad marine creatures—from sea turtles to jellyfish to dolphins—that interact to form a delicately balanced interdependent ecosystem, as well as the culturally diverse human communities that depend on them. She explores the work of marine biologists, oceanographers, and ecologists who have devoted their lives to studying this unique environment.Research shows that the future of the reef is at risk, Sheehy explains. Looking closely at threats ranging from global warming to overfishing to irresponsible development, Sheehy draws attention to the inspiring efforts of nongovernmental agencies, scientists, and local communities who are working together to address these challenges. She includes practical actions individuals can take to protect this reef—as well as marine ecosystems everywhere.Celebrating a vast, submerged landscape that has too often been undervalued, Imperiled Reef is both a strong case for protecting an international marvel and a powerful message of hope for the world’s oceans.Trade Review“[An] impassioned study. . . . There is much to savor in Sheehy’s paean to a unique ecosystem.”- Publishers Weekly;“Takes us on a fascinating journey through the unfolding crisis on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, and by extension the world’s oceans and climate. Sheehy possesses a deep knowledge of reef biodiversity and the ability to clearly convey not only the complicated challenges but also the concrete steps that can be taken to ensure healthy ocean ecosystems for future generations.”- Deb Castellana, director of strategic partnerships, Mission Blue/Sylvia Earle Alliance;“Australia’s Great Barrier Reef often hogs the spotlight, but as Sheehy’s book shows, the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef fringing the tropical Atlantic coast of the Americas is no less remarkable. You’ll meet the corals that build it and the charismatic creatures that call it home and make it function. Equally important, you’ll get to know the people dedicating their lives to the reef and learn what you can do to help it thrive.”- Nancy Knowlton, author of Citizens of the Sea: Wondrous Creatures from the Census of Marine Life;“It is delightful to see decades of science and conservation work in the Mesoamerican Reef being highlighted in this informative yet entertaining book, with so many great interviews from the field- where the real conservation happens.”- Melanie McField, director, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative;“Highlights an iconic place and the people who care for it even in the face of frightening challenges. May the continued commitment and innovation of these heroes serve as an example for others who are struggling to protect what is still intact and restore what has been lost.”- Stephen Gittings, science coordinator, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
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University Press of Florida Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners
Book SynopsisIdeal for city residents, developers, designers, and officials looking for ways to bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable, Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners offers a wealth of information and examples that will answer fundamental scientific questions, guide green initiatives, and inform environmental policies and decision-making processes.This book provides an overview of the synergistic relationships between humans and nature that shape the ecology of urban green spaces. It also emphasizes the social and cultural value of nature in cities for human health and well-being. Chapters describe the basic science of natural components and ecosystems in urban areas and explore the idea of biophilic urbanism, the philosophy of building nature into the framework of cities. To illustrate these topics, chapters include projects, case studies, expert insights, and successful citizen science programs from urban areas around the world.Authors Gail Hansen and Joseli Macedo argue that citizens have increasingly important roles to play in the environmental future of the cities they live in. A valuable resource for real-world solutions, this volume encourages citizens and planners to actively engage and collaborate in improving their communities and quality of life.
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Brandeis University Press Climate Ghosts – Migratory Species in the
Book SynopsisClimate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a particular area. Their traces are still present, whether in DNA, in small fragmented populations, in lone individuals roaming a desolate landscape in search of a mate. We can still restore them if we make the hard choices necessary for them to survive. In this meticulously researched book, Langston delves into how climate change and human impact affected these now ghost species. Climate Ghosts covers one of the key issues of our time. Trade Review"Nancy Langston supplies three examples of seemingly impossible and precarious recovery stories for migratory species that offer ways forward for anyone interested in addressing environmental inequality and climate change's impacts on migratory species…Through the stories of caribou, sturgeon, and loons, Climate Ghosts challenges its readers to examine personal and societal relationships and responsibilities to migratory species." * H-Net *"The most recent addition to The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University series, Prof. Langston brings her readers a profound message of both warning and encouragement to action, of the potential for tragedy and the potential for renewal. While what has already happened cannot be changed, what happens next can be; but to act wisely, an understanding of these species in and of themselves as well as their existence in their environment must be achieved. Climate Ghosts is clearly a step towards such knowledge." * The Well-read Naturalist *"Historical information, dating back several centuries, is skilfully combined with details on present and planned restoration actions, providing insights into the past, present and possible future of these threatened species. Throughout the book, the prose flows well and without complex jargon, making this an enjoyable and accessible read. I would highly recommend Climate Ghosts to anyone interested in migratory species and climate change." * Oryx *“Like the species it examines, Climate Ghosts covers a lot of ground . . . . We learn about the animals’ biology, the cultural beliefs regarding them, the reasons for their decline, and the efforts to restore them. This is a story of trauma and loss, one that asks, ‘How do we keep from turning away?’. But it is also one that provides some hope in the dark and a possible way forward.” * Isis *“. . . . Nancy Langston takes the reader on a scientific and cultural tour in the far North, analyzing the combined effects of accelerated climatic processes and Anthropocene land-use change, as well as showing the spiritual depths of the Indigenous tribes who consider caribous, sturgeons, and loons totems. Further, the volume successfully provides a general introduction to the geography and history of the northern regions inhabited by these animals. To help save these ghost species, the author presents and analyzes the successful and less successful attempts to conserve, protect, and translocate them, outlining conservation strategies for the coming decades of climatic anomalies and incorporating the deep knowledge of Indigenous people of the ecology of the North. The volume has a well-deserved place on the bookshelves of ecologists, conservationists, and cultural anthropologists.” * Conservation Biology *“Teachers seeking contemporary examples to use to discuss climate change, threatened species, habitat destruction, and human impact need look no further: Climate Ghosts has that and more.” * American Biology Teacher *"Climate Ghosts is as much a call to address the violent and ongoing legacies of settler colonial racism, as it is to salvage particular animals and ecosystems in decline. This is a must read book—written with humility, head, and heart." -- Brinda Sarathy, University of Washington Bothell“Nancy Langston has written a stunning work of environmental history that illuminates the challenges facing wildlife vulnerable to climate change. While the book carries a dire warning, Langston draws hope from recent restoration programs, arguing that species on the brink should not be written off as doomed." -- John Sandlos, Memorial University of Newfoundland“By centering Indigenous rights and values, Langston shows how we can deepen our relationships with other human beings, and with fish, birds, and mammals; she understands each other as relatives. Climate Ghosts challenges us to engage critically with Indigenous dispossession, ecosystem change, and species restoration.” -- Michael Dockry, University of Minnesota“Maang, nme, adik (loon, sturgeon, caribou) are our older siblings. To the Anishnabek, these are relatives with as much right to be here as we have, and to treat a relative as a ‘resource’ is shameful. In this impassioned and detailed account, Nancy Langston shows how our lifeways are harming our siblings. She makes clear what will happen not only to our older siblings but to ourselves if we do not change." -- Kathie Brosemer, Environmental Director, Sault TribeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Ghosts in the AnthropoceneChapter 2: Woodland Caribou Histories in the Upper Great LakesChapter 3: Caribou Futures in a Warming WorldChapter 4: Indigenous Communities and Lake Sturgeon RestorationChapter 5: The Gift of the LoonEndnotesBibliography
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Human Kinetics Publishers Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running
Book SynopsisBecoming a Sustainable Runner is not just another running guide on developing the physical attributes to run faster or longer. What it will help you achieve is a newfound purpose that merges your passion for running with your concern for your health, your community, and the environment. It weaves together concepts of internal and external sustainability in a way that will help you run, think, and act in a way that is in line with your values.Divided into three parts, the book begins by giving you the tools to find excitement and joy in your runs and sustain your running for the long term. These include acknowledging stressors, setting new challenges, changing where you run and who you run with, and prioritizing physical and mental rest to minimize the risk of injury, illness, and burnout.Next, discover ways to enrich your running through personal connections. Learn about the importance of joining or forming a running community that fosters comradery with others who believe in the power of service and in giving back in meaningful and impactful ways.Then, tap into your passion to sustain our planet. Know what it means to be an eco-conscious traveler, make environmentally friendly choices about where you run and the products you use, and reduce your carbon footprint through the 3R’s: reducing, reusing, and recycling.Throughout the book you’ll enjoy stories from the authors about their personal challenges and triumphs as runners and stewards of the environment. Quotes and insights from well-known runners who are also climate change and environmental justice advocates underscore the breadth and depth of the issues facing us all.As a runner, you have the power to change the world for the better. Becoming a Sustainable Runner provides actionable steps to help you do just that.Trade Review“Tina and Zoë make us think about our strategy and goals in races and life. Better yet, they expect us to channel our energy for the greater good and the environment. I highly recommend Becoming a Sustainable Runner to everyone who exercises!”—Meb Keflezighi, Olympic Marathon Silver Medalist and Winner of the New York City Marathon and Boston Marathon“I’ve been waiting a long time for a book that puts running in the broader context of our bodies, our minds, and the world around us. Becoming a Sustainable Runner is that book.”—Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Bestselling Author“I've loved running for a long time now, and I often think about how running nourishes me. What I don't think enough about is how we can use running to make our world better too. Becoming a Sustainable Runner is a practical guide for how we can all do this, in ways that make our running all the more joyful and sustaining.”—Simran Jeet Singh, Five-Time Marathoner and Author of National Bestseller The Light We Give"Becoming a Sustainable Runner is a fantastic example of how to improve your life in more of a wholesome way, and running is the muse that can be used to become aware and integrate how we are and want to live the rest of our life. When we are aware, we have more choices. When we are healthy, we make healthier choices, and those choices help the rest of our lives and the planet."—Darin Olien, Author of New York Times Bestseller Superlife and Cohost of Down to Earth With Zac Efron“Tina stands out as a vastly experienced and accomplished athlete, but it is her ability to place her craft in the broader context of life that makes her stand apart. In Becoming a Sustainable Runner, she helps explain not just how to run well but also how to live well by running. The difference is important, and it makes for a great read.”—Tim Brown, Cofounder of Allbirds“In Becoming a Sustainable Runner, Tina and Zoë have written a beautiful, thought-provoking, and empowering book. It gives us the tools to become more sustainable runners and drive positive change in our world, as well as the belief that we can all make a difference. Personally, it has helped me reframe my relationship with running and given me more confidence to challenge the status quo and fight for inclusion.”—Sophie Power, Ultrarunner and Founder of SheRaces"Becoming a Sustainable Runner is like getting a joyful, motivational hug from friends before a big race. Zoë and Tina grab flashlights, shine them under our beds, and help us realize those things we all share can be friends instead of monsters. It's always so scary to think of big topics like showing up every day, relentlessly, to improve as a runner and community member. This book teaches us that showing up every day can be so damn fun, especially when you have one of those flashlights that Zoë and Tina shine into the dark places. After you read this book, you're going to have to buy extra-strength melatonin because you're going to be so excited to wake up the next day and show the heck up. It's a delightful feeling, inspired by a delightful and important book.”—David Roche and Megan Roche, MD, PhD, Coaches and Authors of The Happy Runner "Every runner looking to embody a truly sustainable lifestyle needs to read Becoming a Sustainable Runner. Zoë and Tina explore every aspect of what being a sustainable runner means, from the lenses of mental health and body image, all the way to environmental impacts and sociocultural perspectives. This book exemplifies the interconnectedness of our actions with the outside world and goes to show that lifelong runners will be those who can find sustainability across all areas of life, not in just the sport of running.”—Grayson Murphy, professional runner for Saucony, 4x US Champion | 2x World Champion Table of ContentsPart I. Sustain Your Runner’s Mind and BodyChapter 1. Play the Long GameChapter 2. Bolster Your ConfidenceChapter 3. Clear Out the ClutterChapter 4. Focus on Sustainable StrengthChapter 5. Reduce Injury RiskChapter 6. Explore Your SurroundingsChapter 7. Replenish Your BodyPart II. Sustain Your Running CommunityChapter 8. Find Your PlaceChapter 9. Give BackChapter 10. Consider ActivismPart III. Sustain Our PlanetChapter 11. Encourage Sustainable EventsChapter 12. Be an Eco-Conscious TravelerChapter 13. Consume With CareChapter 14. Reduce, Reuse, RecycleChapter 15. Eat and Drink Responsibly
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AU Press Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and
Book SynopsisThere is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics are entangled in multiple ecological and social crises, from the plasticization of the oceans to the embeddedness of plastics in political hierarchiesThe complexities surrounding the global plastic crisis require an interdisciplinary approach and the materialities of plastic demand new temporalities of thought and action. Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics. Contributors consider the unpredictable nature of plastics and weigh actionable solutions and mitigation processes against the ever-changing situation. Moving beyond policy changes, this volume offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to tackling the plastics crisis and explores how politics and communicative action are key to implementing social, cultural, and economic change.
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University of Calgary Press Environment in the Courtroom
Book SynopsisCanadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and these distinctions must be appreciated both within the legal community and by all those who are concerned with the way that courts handle environmental cases. Environment in the Courtroom provides extensive insight into Canadian environmental law. Covering key environmental concepts and the unique nature of environmental damage, environmental prosecutions, sentencing and environmental offences, evidentiary issues in environmental processes and hearings, issues associated with site inspections, investigations, and enforcement, and more, this collection has the potential to make make a significant difference at the level of understanding and practice. Containing perspective and insight from experienced and prominence Canadian legal practitioners and scholars, Environment in the Courtroom addresses the Canadian provinces and territories and provides context by comparison to the United States and Australia. No other collection covers these topics so comprehensively. This is an essential reference for all those interested in Canadian environmental law.Table of Contents AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of Figures Introduction In the Shadow of the Green Giants:Environmentalism and Civic EngagementJonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper Process and Possibilities Strategies for Survival:First Nations Encounters with Environmentalism Anna J. Willow Native/Non-Native Alliances:Challenging Fossil Fuel Industry Shipping at Pacific Northwest Ports Zoltán Grossman Conserving Contested Ground:Sovereignty–Driven Stewardship by the White Mountain Apache tribe and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation John R. Welch From Southern Alberta to Northern Brazil:Indigenous Conservation and the Preservation of Cultural Resources Sterling Evans Parks For and By the People:Acknowledging Ordinary People in the Formation, Protection, and Use of State and Provincial Parks Jessica M. DeWitt Histories Alternatives:Environmental and Indigenous Activism in the 1970sLiza Piper Marmion Lake Generating Station:Another Northern Scandal? Tobasonakwut Peter Kinew Environmental Activism as Anti–Conquest:The Nuu–chch–nulth and Environmentalists in the Contact Zone of Clayoquot Sound Jonathan Clapperton Local Economic Independence as Environmentalism:Nova Scotia in the 1970s Mark Leeming "Not an Easy Thing to Implement":The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Environmental Organization in a Resource–Dependent Province, 1969–1983Mark J. McLaughlin The Ebb and Flow of Local Environmental Activism:The Society for Pollution and Environmental Control (SPEC), British Columbia Jonathan Clapperton From Social Movement to Environmental Behemoth:How Greenpeace Got Big Frank Zelko Afterward Lessons and Directions from the Ground UpJonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper BibliographyIndex
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CABI Publishing Conservation and Management of Tropical
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests applies the large body of knowledge, experience and tradition available to those who study tropical rainforests. Revised and updated in light of developments in science, technology, economics, politics, etc. and their effects on tropical forests, it describes the principles of integrated conservation and management that lead to sustainability, identifying the unifying phenomena that regulate the processes within the rainforest and that are fundamental to the ecosystem viability. Features of the natural forest and the socio-cultural ecosystems which can be mimicked in the design of self-sustaining forests are also discussed. A holistic approach to the management and conservation of rainforests is developed throughout the book. The focus on South-East Asian forestry will be widened to include Africa and Latin America. Recent controversial issues such as biofuels and carbon credits with respect to tropical forests and their inhabitants will be discussed. This book is a substantial contribution to the literature, it is a valuable resource for all those concerned with rainforests. Cover Photo: The group of five Iban resting on rocky cliffs in the Ulu Katibas in 1957 were traditional shag (Sect. 2.2, p. 86) farmers from the longhouse of Penguluh Ngali in the steep-hilly Ulu Ai (Ai river headwaters) below the Lanyak Entimau Protected Forest in the PFE (see p. 339). They were part of the native Iban complement in an exploratory survey by F.G. Browne, (Chief) Conservator of Forests Sarawak and Chairman of the Iban Resettlement Board, myself as SFO Kuching and team leader, and my assistant, D. Parson. We had crossed the watershed eastward along a former headhunter trail and got lost for an additional week in the legendary, fascinatingly wild, almost virgin-primary, timber- and biodiversity/species-rich Mixed Dipterocarp Forest (MDF, see pp. xiv and 397) of the Ulu Katibas-Kapuas hill country. Our mission was to assess three alternative land-use options: logging and conversion to production forestry; agriculture; or TPA-NP (pp. xiv-xv). Our conclusion at the end of the crossing was that only TPA - NP was feasible; the Iban farming community had to be resettled on better, more suitable land and soil in Northern Sarawak. Upon returning to Kuching, we recommended the creation of a large, continuous TPA-NP. Iban villagers, tribal leaders and the Government (Governor Sir Anthony Abell) agreed. Strict adherence to the decreed Forest Policy (see pp. 171-173) and the application of the classic phronesis approach (see p. 341) had ensured the establishment and survival of large tracts of MDF and other forest types as TPA, such as the Batang Ai National Park (20,040 ha), Ulu Sebuyau National Park (18,287 ha) and Lanyak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary (182,983 ha), and enabled their inclusion in the current Malaysian (Sarawak and Sabah)-Indonesian transboundary 'Heart of Borneo' programme of biodiversity, species preservation, nature conservation and environmental protection (Photo EFB, 1957).Table of ContentsI: Contents II: Preface III: Acknowledgments IV: Acronyms, Abbreviations and Symbols 1: Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem, Land Cover, Habitat, Resource 1.1: Tropical Rainforest: Myths, Delusions and Reality 1.2: Rainforest Macro- and Mesoclimate 1.3: Rainforest Soils, Soil Types and Vegetation Types, Mosaics and Catenas 1.4: Large- and Medium- Scale Dynamic Changes of MDF at Large and Medium Spatial Scales 1.5: Rooting Sphere 1.6: Tree Crowns and Canopy: Physiognomy/ Structure and Functions 1.7: Hydrology, Nutrients and Pollutants 1.8: Tree Species Richness and Diversity 1.9: Floristic Changes and Distribution Patterns 1.10: Pristine and Manipulated Forest and Animal Life 1.11: Small-scale Dynamics, Regeneration, Sub-Formations and Early Growth 1.12: Forest Biomass, Stocks and Accretion 1.13: Forest Growth, Productivity and Production, Above-Ground and Soil Organic Matter (SOM) 1.14: The Worrying Global to Local Significance of Uncertainties, Risks and Constant Changes 1.15: Forest Diversity and Functions 1.16: Some Afterthoughts: How Much Science, How Much Ecological Insight Do We Still Need to Act and Why is There so Much Talk and Little Action? 2: Rainforest Use: Necessity, Wisdom, Greed, Folly 2.1: Original Inhabitants and Secondary Refugees: Forest-dwellers and the Rainforest 2.2: Shifting Cultivators, Cultural Transition, Agroforestry and NWFP 2.3: Native Customary Rights and Forestry 2.4: The Nightmares of Customary Logging, Illegal Landuse and Timber Mining 2.5: Customary and Conventional Selective Logging and the Community 2.6: Timber Production, Trade and Demands 2.7: Rainforest Abuse or Use: Exploitation or Integrated Harvesting? 2.8: Low-impact Harvesting Systems in the TRF 2.9: Tropical Rainforest and Global Climate Oscillations and Change 2.10: Environmental Change and Forestry 3: Sustainable Forestry in Rainforests: Reality or Dream, Hope or Chimaera? 3.1: The Concept of Sustainable Forestry: Origin and Post-Modern Relevance 3.2: The Holistic Nature of Sustainability in Forestry 3.3: Unpredictability and Uncertainties 3.4: History of Sustainable Forestry in Tropical Rainforests 3.5: Short History of Rainforest Silviculture and Management 3.6: Principles of Silvicultural Management 3.7: Conclusion: Hope or Chimera? 3.8: The “World Forestry” Concept: Glimmer of Hope or just another Dreamy Buzz? 4: Principles and Strategies of Sustainability 4.1: Time Scale and Hierarchy of Sustainability Principles and Strategies 4.2: Principles at National Level 4.3: Principles at Regional and Forest Management Unit Level 4.4: Principles at Forest-stand Level 4.5: Timber Management and Conservation/Preservation: Segregation or Integration? 4.6: Sustainable Alternative: Non-timber or Non-wood Forest Products? 5: The Tortuous Road Towards Forest Sustainability in the TRF: cases from which to learn 5.1: Example: The State of Sarawak 5.2: Africa: Paradigm Change in the Congo Basin blocks satisfactory Progress 5.3: Tropical America: Few could cope with Social Distortions and Political Miscasts 5.4: Conclusion 6: Naturalistic Close-to-Nature-Forestry Management in TRF 6.1: Origin, Goals, Targets and Principles of Close to Nature Forestry (CNF) 6.2: Potential and Actual Economic Production in CNF-TRF 6.3: Growth and Sustained Yield Potential of CNF in MDF 6.4: Systems unsuitable for Perhumid/ Humid Evergreen Tropical Forest (TRF) 6.5: Techniques, Standards and Problems of CNF in TRF 6.6: SMS for Fragile Oligotrophic Upland Soils in Kerangas and Caatinga Forests 6.7: SMS for Fragile Oligotrophic Peatswamp Soils in APR 6.8: Overcoming the Enigma of Uncertainty 6.9: Prospects for CNF in APR, Congo Basin and Amazon Basin-Yukatan 7: How to Avoid Forest Degradation or Upgrade Degraded Forest Ecosystems: a classic World Forestry Problem 7.1: When did the Problems Evolve and what Attempts were Made at Mitigation? 7.2: Restoration or Rehabilitation of Over-logged and timber-mined Upland Rainforests 7.3: Restoration in Secondary Forests on Zonal TRF Sites 7.4: Example: Multiple-purpose Plantations in Semengoh Forest Reserve 7.5: Restoration of Biodiversity in Plots RP 76 and TP 4B , Semengoh Forest Reserve 7.6: The Deramakot Model R&D Project, Role Model of an Integrated Approach 7.7: Silvicultural Conclusions on Restoration on Oxi-and Ultisols and on Podsols 7.8: Conclusion 8: Short-rotation Tree Plantations 8.1: Motivation and Objectives 8.2: Rationale and Risks 8.3: Selection System CNF versus Customary Logging and Conversion to Plantation 9: Forest Management: Doctrine, Muddle or Goal-Orientated System 9.1: What went wrong? 9.2: Do we still Need New Guidelines for Forestry in the Tropics? 9.3: Example: the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) Guidelines 9.4: The ITTO Guidelines for Planted Tropical Forests and Recreating Tropical Forests 9.5: Planning Sustainable Forest Utilisation: Information Needs 10: Certification of Forest Management and Timber Origin 10.1: Roots: Forest Resource Rape ; Offshoots: Boycott of Tropical Forestry and Timber 10.2: Principles, Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability 10.3: Objective Certification in TRF: Practicable or Virtually Impossible 10.4: Trade Policies and Tree-species Conservation 10.5: Why so far so little success and effect for so much fuss? 11: Where are We and the TRF in 2013? 11.1: Some Fundamentals 11.2: Management and Conservation 11.3: Economics 11.4: Information 11.5: Politics 12: Quo Vadis Silva Tropikos? 12.1: Classic Rome and Athens Teach a Lesson on the Roots of the Dilemma 12.2: Action Priorities 12.3: Where Should the TRF Go, where Can it Go Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: Biocybernetic Principles of System Design V: References and Further Reading VI: Index of Species and Major Non- timber Forest Products VII: Subject Index
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CABI Publishing Mountain Tourism: Experiences, Communities,
Book SynopsisMountains have long held an appeal for people around the world. This book focusses on the diversity of perspectives, interaction and role of tourism within these areas. Providing a vital update to the current literature, it considers the interdisciplinary context of communities, the creation of mountain tourism experiences and the impacts tourism has on these environments. Including authors from Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America, the development, planning and governance issues are also covered.Table of Contents: Part 1. Mountain Tourism Introduction 1: Overview of Mountain Tourism: Substantive Nature, Historical Context, Areas of Focus : Part 2. Experience Provision in Mountain Tourism 2: Experience Provision in Mountain Tourism: Overview, Contextual Development and Emphasis 3: Wellness Tourism Experiences in Mountain Regions: The Case of Sparkling Hill Resort, Canada 4: Creating Tourist Experiences in European Alpine Areas: Beyond Mass Tourism 5: Motivations for a Destination Wedding in Canada’s Mountain Parks 6: Stamp Books in the Harz Mountains, Germany – Fun not Just for Children 7: Significant Innovation in the Development and Provision of Heli-ski Mountain Experiences: The Case of Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing 8: From Winter Destination to All-year-round Tourism: How Focus on Service can Reduce Fluctuation in Demand due to Seasonality : Part 3. People and Communities in Mountain Tourism 9: People and Communities in Mountain Tourism: Overview, Contextual Development and Areas of Focus 10: Tourism-led Amenity Migration in a Mountain Community: Quality of Life Implications for Fernie, British Columbia 11; In the Shadow of Machu Picchu: A Case Study of the Salkantay Trail 12: Transformative Wine Tourism in Mountain Communities 13: Sustainable Tourism in the Carpathians 14: Leisure Living in the Alps 15: Australia’s Alpine Areas: Motivations, Experiences and Satisfaction of Visitors to Mt Kosciuszko : Part 4. Natural Environments and Their Connection to Mountain Tourism 16: Natural Environments and Their Connection to Mountain Tourism:Overview, Contextual Development and Areas of Focus 17: Tourism, Environmental Pragmatism and Changing Attitudes Towards Mountains 18: External and Internal Challenges of Glacier Tourism Development in Iceland 19: Hiking Tourism in Germany’s Low and High Mountain Regions 20: Sustainable Mountain Hiking Practices in Isfahan, Iran 21: Two Canadian Mountaineering Camps: Participant Motivations and Sense of Place in a Wilderness Setting : Part 5. Impacts and Solutions in Mountain Tourism 22: Impacts and Solutions in Mountain Tourism: Overview, Contextual Development and Areas of Focus 23: Regional Collaboration in Community-based Mountain Tourism in World Heritage Sites: The Ifugao Rice Terraces of the Cordillera Central Mountains in the Philippines 24: Mountain Tourism Supply-chain Networks in Cross-border Settings: The Case of Intercerdanya, Spain 25: A Moral Turn for Mountain Tourism? 26: Mountain Tourism in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Seasonality at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 27: Tourism and Change in Nepal’s Mt Everest Region 28: Rural Tourism and Small Business Networks in Mountain Areas: Integrating Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and Community in Western Southland, New Zealand : Part 6. Development, Planning and Governance in Mountain Tourism 29: Development, Planning and Governance in Mountain Tourism: Overview, Contextual Development and Areas of Focus 30: Protected Areas in The Alps: Governance and Contributions to Regional Development 31: Setting the Table for Mountain Tourism: The Case of a South African National Park 32: Governance of French Ski Resorts: Will the Historic Economic Development Model Work for the Future? 33: The Development and Design of Ski Resorts: From Theory to Practice 34: Non-government Organizations’ Mountain Management: A Sustainable Support Model for Southern Oregon’s Mountain Destinations 35: Development and Governance of a Family Destination in the Alps: The Case of Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis : Part 7. Mountain Tourism Implications 36: Mountain Tourism: Implications and Sustainable Futures
£89.09
CABI Publishing Global Forest Fragmentation
Book SynopsisForest fragmentation will inevitably continue over the coming years, especially in developing economies. This book provides a cutting edge review of the multi-disciplinary sciences related to studies of global forest fragmentation. It specifically addresses cross-cutting themes from both an ecological and a social sciences perspective. The ultimate goal of Global Forest Fragmentation is to provide a detailed scientific base to support future forest landscape management and planning to meet global environmental and societal needs.Table of Contentsa: Acknowledgements b: Preface Chapter 1: Global Forest Fragmentation: Introduction Chapter 2: The history of deforestation and forest fragmentation: a global perspective Chapter 3: Contemporary drivers of habitat fragmentation Chapter 4: Forest fragmentation and biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes Chapter 5: Forest Fragmentation Genetics: What can genetics tell us about forest fragmentation? Chapter 6: Forest Fragmentation and Climate Change Chapter 7: Forest islands in an agricultural sea Chapter 8: Forest fragmentation and ecosystem function Chapter 9: Beyond the mirror: Tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on rural livelihoods. Chapter 10: Governance Failures and the Fragmentation of Tropical Forests Chapter 11: Future Forests, Fantasy or Façade
£38.71
CABI Publishing Woodland Development: A Long-term Study of Lady
Book SynopsisIn 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops naturally. Since then, in a unique long-term study, individual trees and shrubs have been recorded at intervals, accumulating a detailed record of more than 20,000 individual beech, sessile oak, ash, wych elm, small-leaved lime, large-leaved lime, birch, hazel, yew and other species. In the seven decades since the study started, the wood has changed; trees grew, died and regenerated, and drought, disease and other events shaped its destiny. Each tree and shrub species reacted in its own way to changes in the wood as a whole and to changes in the fortunes of its neighbours. Meanwhile, the wild fauna, flora and fungi also responded, leaving the wood richer in some groups but poorer in others. In this landmark book, beautifully illustrated throughout, George Peterken and Edward Mountford, summarise the ongoing results of the Lady Park Wood study, highlighting its unique place in nature conservation and its significance to ecology in general. It also builds on experience at Lady Park Wood and elsewhere to discuss in particular: the role and maintenance of long-term ecological studies; the concept and form of natural woodland; the role of minimum-intervention policies in woodland nature conservation; near-to-nature forestry; and the desirability and practicalities of re-wilding woodlands.Table of Contents1: Understanding Woodland 2: Lady Park Wood and its History 3: The Ecological Reserve 4: Recording Trees and Expressing Change 5: The Changing Woodland 6: Ash: The Tree in the Spotlight 7: Beech and Oak, the Major Forest Trees 8: Limes and Wych Elm 9: Birch and other Short-lived Canopy Trees 10: Field Maple and Hazel, the other Coppice Species 11: Minor Trees and Shrubs 12: Habitats 13: Species 14: Long-term Ecological Studies 15: Natural Woodland in Theory and Practice 16: Near-to-Nature Forestry 17: Rewilding, Remoteness and Wilderness
£96.84
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law
Book Synopsis'Humanity has been gambling for generations with the extent to which it can degrade nature and continue to prosper. Now the environmental debt is being called in and the ability of international diplomacy and law, government policy and political will to deal with the issues is being tested. Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law is a must read for any practitioner in the high-stakes business of restoring our ability to live in harmony with the natural world that sustains us.' - Alastair Morrison, Department of Conservation, New Zealand 'Biodiversity is the cornerstone of life - our plants, animals, and ecosystems are essential for livelihoods and have shaped our culture and traditions around the world. However our precious biodiversity is at risk as never before. Global targets to reduce biodiversity loss have not been met and we continue to lose biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. In fact we are currently in the middle of an extinction crisis and scientists have advised that one species from our planet is being lost every 38 minutes! The nature of this crisis and the actions taken to address it are clearly and articulately put forward in this landmark book by Professor Al Gillespie. This book is particularly useful in documenting the many policy and legal actions that have been taken to address these issues, and how the application of these instruments can be improved. Although focused on the law, the book covers a range of disciplines including science, philosophy and policy which lay the foundation for international law. This book makes a major and highly valued contribution to the disciple of environmental law and policy and is an invaluable reference for policy makers, practitioners and academic audiences.' - David Sheppard, CEO of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)This important and timely book provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently facing conservation at international level. The author provides detailed coverage of topics ranging from the classification of species right through to access and benefit sharing, drawing on his personal experience at intergovernmental level. Each question is examined through the prism of dozens of treaties and hundreds of decisions and resolutions of the key multilateral regimes, and the law in each area is supplemented by the necessary considerations of science politics and philosophy - providing much-needed context for the reader. Combining expert scholarship and first-hand insight, Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law will be an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in international environmental law, as well as providing an accessible guide for students.Trade ReviewA major work: this book provides a comprehensive picture of the international legal challenges of natural heritage conservation. Truly an indispensable tool for policy-makers, experts and students. The book offers a complete guide to the complex world of treaties that regulate conservation at the global scale. --Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for CultureThis book is written by a prominent and influential scholar who also has the benefit of first hand knowledge of practical working of environmental regimes, having participated in several important negotiations. Gillespie's monograph therefore stands out among other publications on the subject of conservation, combining thoughtful and scholarly approach to issues raised with un-parallel insights into the working of environmental law and the conservation of biodiversity. The book is very original in its presentation of this subject, especially in the selection of topics and the approach which is not only legal but also scientific, philosophical and political. This book is evidence of the great erudition of the author not only in the field of conservation but also in international environmental law and general international law, an example of which can be his analysis of the precautionary principle, trade and a very complex issue of the exception for indigenous peoples and science. Mention also must be made of his detailed approach to various multilateral treaty regimes such as Ramsar Convention and the World Heritage Convention. Gillespie wrote an exceptional book which is a must for international layers, both practitioners and scholars. It is a thought-provoking, very well researched and original monograph, which due to its all- encompassing approach will retain its importance for a very long period of time. --Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary, University of London, UKThe book is an important contribution to environmental literature and specifically to environmental law internationally. International lawyers, both practitioners and academic lawyers alike - as well as policymakers - will welcome this thorough, scholarly and readable monograph as a must-have addition to their libraries. --Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Species and Areas 3. Extinct and Endangered 4. Classifications 5. Tangible Benefits 6. Intangible Considerations 7. Habitat 8. Trade 9. Exceptions for Indigenous Peoples, Science and the Military 10. Aliens, Disease, Pests, and Genetically Modified Species 11. Incidental Capture 12. Development 13. Overlaps and Gaps 14. Compliance 15. Compliance on the High Seas 16. Management 17. Access and Benefit Sharing 18. Local Peoples, Education and Finance 19. Conclusion Index
£51.25
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Environmental Protection, Security and Armed
Book SynopsisEnvironmental Protection, Security and Armed Conflict is a timely reminder of the need to integrate sustainable development into key areas of international law, including all phases of armed conflict. Onita Das cleverly picks her way through the applicable law and derives solid suggestions for the future.'BR>- Karen Hulme, University of Essex, UKThis book explores environmental protection relevant to security and armed conflict from a sustainable development perspective. The author details how at each stage of the armed conflict life cycle, policy, law and enforcement have fallen short of the sustainable development model and concludes with a set of suggestions for how to address this pressing concern.The book considers and discusses:- Environmental protection relevant to security and armed conflict from a holistically sustainable development perspective.- Environmental protection relevant to security and armed conflict in the life cycle of armed conflict: pre-conflict, in-conflict and post-conflict.- Uses substantive sustainable development principles (duty of states to ensure sustainable use of natural resources; equity and the eradication of poverty; common but differentiated responsibilities; precautionary principle; public participation; good governance; integration and interrelationship; and polluter pays principle) as tools or objectives to achieve sustainable development in the context of environmental protection relevant to security and armed conflict.- The concept of sustainable development is utilized to fill the gaps left by policy and law in the field of environmental protection relevant to security and armed conflict.The book also examines 5 case-studies relating to Somalia, Darfur, Sudan, Sierra Leone, the First Gulf war and the Kosovo conflict.This fascinating and detailed study will strongly appeal to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of both environmental protection and international law, researchers, policy-makers, NGOs and individuals working in the field.Trade Review‘A most recent and impressive release. . . is a noteworthy editorial achievement because of the necessary, but often overlooked, connection the author makes between sustainable development issues and security paradigms by interpreting the causes, development and consequences of environmental degradation in conflict-ridden areas of the world. . . Impressive by its accuracy and optimal scope and depth, the text aids readers, helping them move easily into the central thesis of the study. . . We recommend Onita Das’ work to expert researchers, non-governmental activists, officials in national administration and international officials, teachers and students, as well as journalists interested in environmental protection and security studies alike.’ -- Eugen Strau?iu, Central and Eastern European Online Library‘Onita Das' book is a much-needed contribution to literature that draws together the worlds of environmental law and environmental security. Her overview of sustainable development law demonstrates knowledge of environmental legal history. . . Thankfully Onita Das has shed light on some important aspects that help us to see where we must venture.’ -- Elaine C. Hsiao, IUCNAEL EJournal‘This thoughtful, analytical and scholarly monograph encapsulates and examines the ramifications of the vast amount of research carried out by Onita Das on the dual considerations of sustainability and armed conflict. . . Because of its subject matter, the recent appearance of this book is certainly timely and worthy of close scrutiny, especially by those involved professionally in this complex area; academics and postgraduate students obviously, as well as policy-makers and yes, environmental lawyers.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘Environmental Protection, Security and Armed Conflict is a timely reminder of the need to integrate sustainable development into key areas of international law, including all phases of armed conflict. Onita Das cleverly picks her way through the applicable law and derives solid suggestions for the future.’ -- Karen Hulme, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Sustainable Development, Security and Armed Conflict − Developing a Theoretical Framework for a Legal Analysis of War and the Environment 3. Failing Sustainable Development? Early Warning, Early Action, and Preventing Environmental Security Threats 4. Sustainable Development and the Protection of the Environment During Times of Armed Conflict 5. Post-conflict: Breaking the Cycle for a Better Future − Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Relevant to Security and Armed Conflict 6. Conclusions and Challenges Index
£100.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Environmental Entrepreneurship: Markets Meet the
Book SynopsisIn this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world's poorest areas.The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve establishing property rights and encouraging market exchange. From beehives to barbed wire, these tools are creating positive incentives and promoting both economic development and environmental improvements. The case studies are from the developing world and reveal where the biggest victories for less poverty and more conservation can be won. The pursuit begins by learning from local people solving local problems.Environmental Entrepreneurship encourages a broad audience to consider secure property rights and free markets as key ingredients to moving out of poverty and improving environmental quality at the same time. It will appeal to academics and students of environmental studies, environmental economics, environmental policy, as well as international development and business. Entrepreneurs and environmental groups such as The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and The World Resources Institute will also find a wealth of invaluable information in this book.Contents: 1. Markets Meet the Environment in Unexpected Places 2. Saving Wildlife in Kenya and Sub-Sahran Africa with Shawn Regan and Terry Anderson 3. Fencing Fisheries in Namibia and Beyond 4. Ecosystems at Your Service in South America 5. The Thirsty Dragon 6. Un-American Indian Reservations and Resource Management with Terry Anderson IndexTrade Review‘Presenting five case studies in developing countries and in the US, [the book] reveals how entrepreneurs are finding innovative solutions in order to improve local economies and environmental quality. Laura Huggins' book is well written and well researched, drawing on a significant variety of sources. This book will be valuable to scholars, students, policymakers, activists and citizens in general, and provides excellent insights for those involved in public policy, community development and economic development in the context of sustainability.’ -- Mariza Almeida, Science & Public Policy‘An impressive work of original scholarship (Laura E. Huggins is a Research Fellow at PERC and the Hoover Institutions at Stanford University), Environmental Entrepreneurship: Markets Meet the Environment in Unexpected Places is deftly written and will prove of immense interest to both entrepreneurs and corporate executives, as well as environmentalists and conservationists. . . It is important and very strongly recommended for academic library reference collections.’ -- Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Markets Meet the Environment in Unexpected Places 2. Saving Wildlife in Kenya and Sub-Sahran Africa with Shawn Regan and Terry Anderson 3. Fencing Fisheries in Namibia and Beyond 4. Ecosystems at Your Service in South America 5. The Thirsty Dragon 6. Un-American Indian Reservations and Resource Management with Terry Anderson Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Valuing Ecosystem Services: Methodological Issues
Book SynopsisConserving biodiversity and ecosystem services is critical to promoting human welfare and sustainable development. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Methodological Issues And Case Studies presents the latest research on valuing ecosystem services and case studies by leading experts from around the world.This thought provoking book draws together prominent international authorities to discuss the key methodological issues and challenges in valuing ecosystem services. Covering a cross-section of ecosystems and services in different sites, countries and regions, and presenting state of the art surveys of studies on valuation of forest and coastal ecosystems and pollination services, the collection presents essential case studies that value ecosystem services and experiences with operationalizing valuation into policy.Providing a unique blueprint for moving the science and practice of ecosystem services valuation forward, this timely book will be of special interest to academics, policy makers and professionals working in ecological economics, natural resources, forestry and conservation.Contributors: G. Atkinson, I.J. Bateman, D.M. Bauer, P. van Beukering, L. Brander, N.D Burgess, F. Casey, H. Chang, D. Cooley, R. Costanza, V. Dujon, D. Ervin, C. Fezzi, A. Ghermandi, D. Gordon, E. Granek, G. Guannel, D. Immerzeel, M. Inoue, A. Jenkins, R. Jindal, J. Kerr, A.Kontoleon, R. Kramer, T. Kroeger, A. Lesser, J. Loomis, G.M. Mace, E.Y. Mohammed, S. Morse-Jones, B.C. Murray, K.N. Ninan, P.A.L.D. Nunes, L. Pendleton, L. Richardson, V. Shandas, R.D. Simpson, P.C. Sutton, C. Tisdell, R. K. Turner, T. Vegh, J.A. Yeakley, K. YoshidaTrade Review'This book is a compendium of some of the latest work on valuing ecosystem services, including a range of case studies. These studies begin to address some of the many limitations and caveats clearly noted in the 1997 Nature paper. It will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in this topic and for moving the science and practice of ecosystem services forward.' --Robert Costanza, The Australian National University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 2. Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments Ian Bateman, Georgina M. Mace, Carlo Fezzi, Giles Atkinson, R. Kerry Turner 3. Valuing Ecosystem Services Using Benefit Transfer: Separating Credible and Incredible Approaches John Loomis, Leslie Richardson, Timm Kroeger, Frank Casey 4. Contingent Valuation Responses and Hypothetical Bias Essam Yassin Mohammed 5. Stated Preferences for Tropical Wildlife Conservation among Distant Beneficiaries: Charisma, Endemism, Scope and Substitution Effects Sian Morse-Jones, Ian J. Bateman, Andreas Kontoleon, Silvia Ferrini, Neil Burgess, R. Kerry Turner 6. Space Matters: Exploring Problematic Spatial Issues in the Valuation of Ecosystem Services Paul C. Sutton 7. Valuing Pollination Services: A Comparison of Approaches Dana Marie Bauer 8. Limited Local Values and Uncertain Global Risks in Ecosystem Service Conservation: An Example from Pollinating Services R. David Simpson PART II CASE STUDIES: VALUATION 9. Valuing Forest Ecosystem Services – What we know and what we don’t K.N. Ninan, Makoto Inoue 10. Conserving Forest Wildlife and Other Ecosystem Services: Opportunity Costs and the Valuation of Alternative Logging Regimes Clem Tisdell 11. Valuing Forest Ecosystem Services – Case Study of a Forest Reserve in Japan K.N. Ninan, Makoto Inoue 12. Value after the Volcano: Economic Valuation of Montserrat’s Centre Hills Pieter van Beukering, Luke Brander and Desirée Immerzeel 13. The Economic Value of Ecosystem Services from Agricultural and Rural Landscapes in Japan Kentaro Yoshida 14. Characterizing Urban Ecosystem Services: Integrating the Biophysical and Social Dimensions of Human Dominated Landscapes Vivek Shandas, J. Alan Yeakley, Elise Granek, David Ervin, Veronica Dujon, Heejun Chang 15. The Benefits of Coastal Recreation of Europe’s Seas: An Application of Meta-Analytical Value Transfer and GIS Andrea Ghermandi, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes 16. Fishery Enhancement and Coastal Protection Services Provided by Two Restored Gulf of Mexico Oyster Reefs Timm Kroeger, Greg Guannel PART III CASE STUDIES: VALUATION AND POLICY 17. Harvesting the Financial Value of Coastal “Blue” Carbon Linwood Pendleton, Brian C. Murray, David Gordon, David Cooley, Tibor Verg 18. Exploring Demand for Tree Planting in a Payment for Environmental Services Project in Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya Rohit Jindal, John Kerr 19. The Role of Ecosystem Service Payments in Achieving Conservation Goals – Attitudes Among Farm Operators Randall Kramer, Aaron Jenkins, Adriane Lesser Index
£139.00
