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  • Grassroots Stewardship

    Sustainability Within Our Reach

    by F Stuart Chapin, III ...
    In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large number of Americans identify as environmentalists. What can individual people do to lessen human impacts on the planet? This is not an easy question. Most research is focused on large-scale changes that go beyond anything an individual can accomplish, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Arctic Sustainability Research

    Past, Present and Future

    by Andrey N. Petrov, Shauna BurnSilver, F. Stuart Chapin III, Gail Fondahl, Jessica K. Graybill, Kathrin Keil, Annika E. Nilsson, Rudolf Riedlsperger, Peter Schweitzer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Polar Regions
    The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples, resources, and to the challenges and benefits of impending transformations. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Plant Physiological Ecology

    by Hans Lambers, Thijs L. Pons, F Stuart Chapin III ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Box 9E. 1 Continued FIGURE 2. The C–S–R triangle model (Grime 1979). The strategies at the three corners are C, competiti- winning species; S, stress-tolerating s- cies; R,ruderalspecies. Particular species can engage in any mixture of these three primary strategies, and the m- ture is described by their position within the triangle. comment briefly on some other dimensions that Grime’s (1977) ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

    by Pamela A. Matson, Peter Vitousek, F Stuart Chapin III ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Ecosystem ecology regards living organisms, including people, and the elements of their environment as components of a single integrated system. The comprehensive coverage in this textbook examines the central processes at work in terrestrial ecosystems, including their freshwater components. It traces the flow of energy, water, carbon, and nutrients from their abiotic origins to their cycles ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest

    Edited by F. Stuart Chapin, Mark W. Oswood, Keith van Cleve, David L. Verbyla, Leslie A. Viereck ...
    Series series Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series
    The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to change. This volume synthesizes current understanding of the ecology of Alaska's boreal forests and ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation

    Edited by Ricardo Rozzi, Roy H. May Jr., F. Stuart Chapin III, Francisca Massardo, Michael C. Gavin, Irene J. Klaver, Aníbal Pauchard, Martin A. Nuñez, Daniel Simberloff ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planetary ecological and cultural heterogeneity, this book examines three interrelated themes: (1) ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship

    Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World

    Edited by Gary P. Kofinas, Carl Folke, F Stuart Chapin III ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its fundamental properties and their in- ence on society. These changes include climate; the chemical c- position of the atmosphere; the demands of a growing human population for food and ?ber; and the mobility of organisms, ind- trial products, cultural perspectives, and information ?ows. The magnitude and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Earth Stewardship

    Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Ricardo Rozzi, F. Stuart Chapin III, J. Baird Callicott, S.T.A. Pickett, Mary E. Power, Juan J. Armesto, Roy H. May Jr. ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural, and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment

    Scenarios for the 21st Century

    Edited by F.Stuart Chapin, Osvaldo E. Sala, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth. Climatologists and oceanographers have focused on the changes in our physical environment -- changes in the climate, the oceans, and the chemistry of the air we breathe. Environmental biologists, on the other hand, have addressed issues of conservation and the extinction of species. There is increasing evidence ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The People's Victory

    Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality

    by Jamila Tharp, Brian Maschka, Will Scott, Michael Farino, Ellen Pontac, Colleen Mewing, Robert Sullivan, Baltimore Gonzalez, Mike Goettemoeller, Sean Chapin, Leslie Stewart, Amos Lim, Anne Tischer, Laurie York, Kate Burns, Del Shores, Joe Capley-Alfano, Simon van Kempen, Sam Thoron, Zack Lyons, Jolene Mewing, Geoff Callan, Cheryle Lambert-Rudd, Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Michael Sabatino, Shelly Bailes, Jan Thompson, Kirsten Berzon, Tracy Hollister, Cathy Marino-Thomas, Matthew Baume, J. Scott Coatsworth, Gender Offenders, Mir Reyad, Brian Silva, Mark "Major" Jiminez, Stuart Gaffney, Alex McCord, Michael Boyajian, Jokie X Wilson, Mike Shaw, Stephanie Stolte, Carmen Goodyear, Scott Smith, Tim Garcia, Roland Stringfellow, Billy Bradford, Kitty Lambert-Rudd, Beau Chandler, Molly McKay, Christine Allen, Peter Mesh, Edie Windsor, Frank Capley-Alfano, John Lewis, David Thompson, David Cameron Strachan, Davina Kotulski, PhD, Marriage Equality USA, Fred Anguera, Joy O'Donnell, Marvin Burrows, Michael Markiewicz, Joseph Vitale, Robert Voorheis, Charlie Scatamacchia ...
    "" The People's Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world." – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage ... Read more

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  • Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World

    Values, Philosophy, and Action

    Edited by Ricardo Rozzi, S.T.A. Pickett, Clare Palmer, Juan J. Armesto, J. Baird Callicott ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science proposes an inclusive ecosystem concept that recognizes humans as components. Contemporary environmental ethics includes eco-social justice and the realization that ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Voices of Resistance and Renewal

    Indigenous Leadership in Education

    Edited by Dorothy Aguilera–Black Bear, John W. Tippeconnic III, Ph.D ...
    Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership ... Read more

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