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  • Baffin Island

    Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67

    de Jack D. Ives ...
    Series Libro 18 - Northern Lights
    A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada’s Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Reconciling Development and Conservation

    de Jack D. Ives, Bruno Messerli ...
    `This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses.' - Journal of Environmental ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Substance Misuse

    The Implications of Research, Policy and Practice

    de Anne Bryce, Maurizio Coletti, Donald Forrester, James Egan, Jo Neale, Harry Sumnall, Margaret Black, Sally Haw, Gerard Vaughn, Richard Ives, Neil Hunter, Bernadette Monaghan, Jane Fountain, Joyce Nicholson, Linda McKie, Lisa Jones, Peter Kemp, Brian Kidd, Neil McKeganey, Charlie Llyod, Megan Larken, Jack Law, Viv Evans, Toby Seddon ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today. With heightened political and policy emphasis on all aspects of substance misuse, it is paramount that professionals remain up-to-date on current issues and their responsibilities. Based on research and evidence, this book provides a sound basis for grounded and innovative ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Himalayan Perceptions

    Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain Peoples

    de Jack Ives ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment
    In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Arctic and Alpine Environments

    Edición de Jack D. Ives, Roger G. Barry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ecology
    Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • The Arctic

    Environment, People, Policy

    Edición de Jack D. Ives, Roger G. Barry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ecology
    Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demonstrates the importance of communication between natural scientists, social scientists, and local stakeholders in response to the tremendous challenges and opportunities facing the Arctic. It is an essential resource for all Arctic researchers, ... Leer más

    $305.99 USD

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  • Ecology and Equity

    The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

    de Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha ...
    Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edición de Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Protected Areas and Indigeneous Communities

    Anthropogenic Dependence & Impact on Biodiversity

    de Azra Musavi ...
    This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Conservation and Development in India

    Reimagining Wilderness

    Edición de Shonil Bhagwat ...
    Series series Earthscan Conservation and Development
    Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples’ place in the country’s natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty alleviation in India. It opens up discussion of the conservation–development nexus in a country that stands at a major crossroads, where forces of ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World

    de Michael Sill ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, ranging from the great mountains to the north through the trans-Himalaya, a high barren plateau, through ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Sacred Forests of Asia

    Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation

    Edición de Chris Coggins, Bixia Chen ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD