Conservation

Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic world. Citizens of the world's poorest regions, ran the conventional wisdom, had nothing to gain from environmental concerns; they were 'too poor to be green'.Guha and Martinez-Alier articu... More

In this tightly researched and incendiary book, "communications rottweiler" Sharon Beder exposes how our community values have been sacrificed by economic and political power brokers--today's free market missionaries--on the altar of free market economics. Beder shows how throughout the twentieth ce... More

"Tiger Moon" is the powerful, poetic story of the two years Fiona and Mel Sunquist spent studying tigers in Nepal-traveling by elephant, avoiding a rhino attack, and learning to recognize individual tigers by roar. A new afterword tells the story of a promising effort to reconnect fractured Nepalese... More

This informative, well-organized survey offers an enlightening introduction to wildlife management in the United States. Addresses the growing responsibilities and multiple concerns facing those in wildlife management today. It provides a sound historical background and a firm foundation on principl... More

"Environment and Philosophy" provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism pose to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. Written in an accessible way for those without a background in philosophy, this text examines ways of thinking ... More

What is the minimum viable population (MVP) of a particular species? Besides the obvious implications for conservation, especially of endangered species, this question raises important issues in population biology. MVP obviously varies with demographic, life history and environmental factors, but al... More

The Great Plains prairie, historically the largest single terrestrial ecosystem in North America, is now also its most threatened. Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates relates changes in grassland ecosystems to the ecology of vertebrate animals inhabiting the prairie.The Great Plains... More

* Reveals why we are so fascinated by wild animals, what they mean to us and how as ecotourists we may be loving animals to death* Richly illustrated with photographs and accompanied by annexes of original research* Essential and compelling reading for practitioners, students and academics in ecotou... More

One of the key questions to have exercised green political theorists in recent years concerns the relationship of the environment 'agenda' and democracy. Both environmentalists and democrats have a tendency to think of each other as natural bedfellows but in fact there is little theoretical or pract... More

* From hunting to national parks, it asks and answers the big questions about why we have struggled, and continue to struggle, to conserve nature* Looks to the future and suggests a new course for conservation in the 21st century* Essential reading for conservationists, ecologists, park and natural ... More

The core message of this study is that key insights emerge from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of the approach will make ecology a more predictive science. What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? Despite great progress in ... More

The apparent decline in numbers among many species of migratory songbirds is a timely subject in conservation biology, particularly for ornithologists, ecologists, and wildlife managers. This book is an attempt to discuss the problem in full scope. It presents an ambitious, comprehensive assessment ... More

Over the past two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily adopt environmental policies that go beyond legal requirements. Prakash argues that existing explanations, especially from neoclassical economics, concen... More

Written by experts, peer-reviewed to adhere to the strictest standards and highest quality criteria, this book discusses natural and human-caused forest change. The chapters explore forest disturbance and spatial pattern from an ecological point-of-view within the context of structure, function, pat... More

This important book examines one of the most crucial issues in the modern world: climate change. Providing a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective, which pulls together strands of natural science, economics, and ethics, "Greenhouse Economics" poses some serious questions and offers intelligent an... More

"The Economics of Nature Management" takes a unique "portfolio management" perspective on the worldwide deterioration of the natural environment. For many emerging countries, nature conservation boils down to the purely economic decision of "investing" limited funds in nature potentially at the expe... More

This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millennium represents the 'end' of nature as well. "Remaking Reality" brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of "social nature" provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theo... More

Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widel... More

As human activities in the New World Tropics (Neotropics) increase in intensity and extent, so do the interactions between natural and human-dominated ecosystems. The essays in this book compare the sociocultural and biophysical aspects of managing the resource base in these regions. It describes th... More