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  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    by Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
    This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • A Wildlife Guide to Chile

    Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernández Archipelago

    by Sharon Chester ...
    This is the first comprehensive English-language field guide to the wildlife of Chile and its territories--Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernández, and San Félix y San Ambrosio. From bats to butterflies, lizards to llamas, and ferns to flamingos, A Wildlife Guide to Chile covers the country's common plants and animals. The color plates depict species in their natural environments with ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Wolf's Tooth

    Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity

    by Cristina Eisenberg ...
    Animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate influence on their environment; dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from—or returned to—an ecosystem.In The Wolf's Tooth, scientist and author Cristina Eisenberg explores the concept of "trophic cascades" and the role of top predators in regulating ecosystems. Her fascinating and wide-ranging work ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Monkey's Voyage

    How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life

    by Alan de Queiroz ...
    Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth?Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ireland

    A Smithsonian Natural History

    by Michael Viney ...
    Ireland conjures up images of nature's majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the famous bone caves that hold unique clues about animals from long ago, and experience the dramatic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From Populations to Ecosystems

    Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis

    by Michel Loreau ...
    Series Book 46 - Monographs in Population Biology
    The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From Populations to Ecosystems proposes an innovative theoretical synthesis ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Toward Further Development of Monitoring

    Edited by Shin-ichi Nakano, Tetsukazu Yahara, Tohru Nakashizuka ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Biological diversity is important for ecosystem function and services, which in turn is essential for human well-being. Under the Convention on Biological Diversity, international efforts have been made to achieve a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss. The loss continues, however. The Asia-Pacific region includes both developing countries with high biodiversity and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

    Meeting the challenge of biodiversity conservation and governance

    Edited by Marie Hrabanski, Denis Pesche ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Biodiversity Politics and Management
    Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda. With contributions from more than a dozen well-renowned researchers in political science, law and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Over-Exploitation of Forests

    A Case Study from North East India

    by Anup Saikia ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    North east India is a global biodiversity hotspot but a quite understudied area. Forest loss has always been problematic in the area. Using Landsat satellite data from three periods (70s, 80s/90s and 2010s), forest loss is assessed in sample protected areas and other sites in the study area, processing is undertaken using image processing and standard GIS tools. The landscape metrics of selected ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Biodiversity Offsets

    European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Edited by Wolfgang Wende, Graham - M. Tucker, Fabien Quétier, Matt Rayment, Marianne Darbi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets. The aim of offsetting schemes is to achieve no let loss or even net gain of biodiversity. Offsets obey a mitigation hierarchy and reflect the precautionary and polluter-pays principle in regard to project impacts.Readers gain insights into current debates on biodiversity policies, with top experts outlining theoretical principles and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Biological Diversity

    Exploiters and Exploited

    by Nick Battey, Paul E. Hatcher ...
    Biological Diversity takes a fresh, innovative approach to the teaching of biodiversity. Rather than detailing and cataloguing the major taxa and their evolutionary relationships, the authors have selected 18 groups of organisms and used these as a framework in which to discuss the species and their interactions with man and each other. There is a strong narrative theme throughout – the exploited ... Read more

    $154.00 USD

  • Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene

    The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story

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

    $57.39 USD