A l'Affut des Loutres

Stephane Raimond

Contains the author's colour photos of otters in the Millevaches plateau, part of the Limousin region of France. ....

Bats in Captivity, Volume 1

Biological and Medical Aspects

Edited by Susan M Barnard

A comprehensive book intended for anyone maintaining bats in captivity. It comprises 44 papers by 22 contributing authors. Bats in Captivity is the only book of its kind, ....

Bats in Captivity, Volume 2

Aspects of Rehabitation

Edited by Susan M Barnard

A comprehensive book intended for anyone maintaining bats in captivity. Bats in Captivity is the only book of its kind, detailing the captive care of bats worldwide. ....

DK Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

Mark Carwardine

From the Common Dolphin to the Killer Whale, discover the world's cetaceans. Over 900 incredible photos, annotations and detailed descriptions highlighting chief ....

The Last Stand of the Gorilla

Environmental Crime and Conflict in the Congo Basin

UNEP

Gorillas, the largest of the great apes, are under renewed threat across the Congo Basin from Nigeria to the Albertine Rift: poaching for bushmeat, loss of habitat due to ....

Mammals of Turkey and Cyprus, Volume 3, Rodentia II

Cricetinae, Muridae, Spalacidae, Calomyscidae, Capromyidae, Hystricidae, Castoridae

Boris Krystufek and Vladimir Vohralik

Covers taxonomy, distribution, habitat, variation and life history of 32 species of hamsters, mice, rats, spiny mice, gerbils, jirds and dipodils, mole rats, calomyscus, ....

Meerkat Manor - DVD: Series 4

The Next Generation

Animal Planet

Meerkat Manor's favourite family the Whiskers, are back, but this time they're no longer united. With original dominant matriarch Flower now gone, Rocket Dog has fought her way ....

Orangutan Island

A Story of Hope, Survival and Freedom

Animal Planet

Meet the class of Forest School 103, a ragtag crew of redheaded Little Orphan Annies of the bush who will learn to live wild - and hopefully form their own society - on a ....

Primates of West Africa

Pocket Identification Guide

John F Oates and S Nash

Laminated pocket guide with over 80 colour illustrations to aid identification and maps for locating them. In addition, each species description includes arboreality, the type ....

Threatened Mammals of India

Ecology and Management

Goutam K Saha and Mazumdar Suhendu

Synthesizes various aspects of the morphology, ecology and behaviour of threatened mammals in India that are relevant to their conservation. Their distribution, threats ....

L'Aigle Royal

Biologie, Histoire et Conservation Situation dans le Massif Central

Bernard Ricau and Vincent Decorde

This illustrated book covers 30 years of research on the eagle population of the Massif Central, France. ....

Areas Importantes para a Conservacao das Aves no Brasil: Parte II - Amazônia, Cerrado e Pantanal

A De Luca, PE Develey, GA Bencke and JM Goerck

Amongst Brazil's 163 IBAs, some are considered irreplaceable as they hold significant numbers of one or more species at risk of extinction. These areas are found in a ....

The Barley Bird

Notes on a Suffolk Nightingale

Richard Mabey and Derrick Greaves

Richard Mabey, described as "Britain's greatest living nature writer", explores the nightingale's links with Suffolk culture and landscape, and traces the bird's course ....

Birds of Gardens, Hedgerows and Woodlands

L Merrick

A laminated A2 identification poster showing 28 species of common birds of Gardens, Hedgerows and Woodland, suitable for all ages. All illustrations are original paintings. ....

The Birdwatcher's Garden

Hazel Johnson and Pamela Johnson

This title is ideal for people who wish to attract birds to their gardens, whether to aid the bird population or purely for pleasure. The reference tables ....

A Birdwatching Guide To South-East Brazil

Juha Honkala and Seppo Niiranen

The site descriptions include information on some 50 excellent birdwatching sites throughout South-East Brazil with accurate ....

Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand

And the Ross Dependency, Antarctica

Edited by EG Turbott

This substantially revised and expanded edition of the Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand is the official list of all the birds in the New Zealand region, including ....

Field Guide to the Birds of Macaronesia

Eduardo Garcia-del-Rey

This Field Guide describes and illustrates all the bird species and subspecies of Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira Islands, Savage Islands, Canary Islands and Cabo Verde). ....

Finding Birds in North Goa

Dave Gosney

Covers the northern half of Goa, north of the Zuari river, including the most popular birding areas such as Baga, Bondla and Backwoods. At last, there's a handy guide with ....

Finding Birds in North Goa - The DVD

Dave Gosney

This DVD introduces you to the best birdwatching sites in Goa and gives you a real 'feel' for what it's like to go there. ....

Finding Birds in North Goa - The DVD & The Book

Dave Gosney

This DVD introduces you to the best birdwatching sites in Goa and gives you a real 'feel' for what it's like to go there. ....

Finding Birds in North Spain

D Gosney

If you want to know exactly where to go to find the most exciting birds of north Spain, including Wallcreeper, Great Bustard, Lammergeier, Dupont's Lark and Black Woodpecker ....

Finding Birds in North Spain - The DVD

D Gosney

This DVD introduces you to the best birdwatching sites in north Spain from the mountains of the Picos de Europa to the plains around Lleida. The aim is to give you a real 'feel' ....

Finding Birds in North Spain - The DVD & The Book

Dave Gosney

This DVD introduces you to the best birdwatching sites in north Spain from the mountains of the Picos de Europa to the plains ....

Der Kormoran

Schutz fur einen Fischrauber?

The Cormorant: protection for a fish thief? ....

Ocells de Catalunya, Pais Valencià i Balears

Joan Estrada, Francesc Jutglar and Toni Llobet

The first guide covering exclusively the birds of this region. All species are illustrated, including recently established exotics. Completely new and updated texts ....

Oiseaux Nicheurs de Paris

Un Atlas Urbain

F Malher, G Lesaffre, M Zucca and J Coatmeur

Contains 60 accounts of the breeding species (with an English abstract for each) found in intra-muros Paris (excluding the woods of Vincennes and Boulogne), plus an overview ....

Peterson Reference Guide to Molt in North American Birds

Steve N G Howell

To most observers, molt seems an overwhelming subject. But birders use many aspects of molt more than they realize--to distinguish juvenile birds from adults, to pick out an ....

Popular Mechanics How to Charm a Bird

Create a Backyard Haven with Bird Houses, Baths, and Feeders

Edited by Popular Mechanics

This charming retro style book reveals practical tips and little-known tricks for tempting birds into gardens. It features information on attracting birds in the colder ....

Taschenlexikon der Vogel Deutschlands

Ein Kompetenter Begleiter durch die Heimische Vogelwelt

HJ Funfstuck, A Ebert and I Weiss

Pocket lexicon of birds of Germany. ....

Twelve Poems About Birds

Edited by Jill Perry and Jenny Swann

This illustrated pamphlet contains a selection of poems by historical and contemporary writers and will make a delightful alternative to a card for anyone interested in birds. ....

Vogelzug und Vogelbestande in Mitteleuropa

30 Jahre Beobachtung des Tagzugs am Randecker Maar

Wulf Gatter

Bird migration and status in Central Europe. 30 years of observation on the Randecker Maar in the Swabian Jura (Baden-Wurttemberg). ....

Atlas des Amphibiens et Reptiles de Seine-Saint Denis

Jean Lescure, Jean-Christophe de Massary and Francois Oger

DK Handbook: Reptiles and Amphibians

Mark O'Shea and Tim Halliday

600 incredible photos, annotations and detailed descriptions highlighting chief characteristics and distinguishing marks will help you to identify different species ....

Ecology, Conservation, and Status of Reptiles in Canada

Edited by CNL Seburn and CA Bishop

This volume contains 11 chapters and includes overviews of the ecology and conservation of the major reptile groups and discussions of issues and conservation tools. An ....

Urban Herpetology

Edited by JC Mitchell, RE Jung Brown and B Bartholomew

This volume includes 13 case studies across 40 chapters on the subject of amphibians and reptiles in urban systems. ....

Behavior of Marine Fishes

Capture Process and Conservation Challenges

Edited by Pingguo He

Understanding fish behavior in relation to potential commercial capture methods is of fundamental importance to reducing commercial bycatch and marine fisheries conservation ....

Biology of Lungfishes

Edited by Jorden Morup Jorgensen and Jean Joss

The Biology of Lungfishes presents an up-to-date collection of reviews on some of the most important aspects of the life of lungfishes. The book draws on contributions from ....

Bibliography of Sponges 1551-1913

Edited by GP Bidder, CS Vosmaer-Roell and GCJ Vosmaer

First published in 1928, this bibliography lists approximately 3,800 titles on the subject of sponges, spanning the period 1551-1913. ....

Britain's Dragonflies

A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland

Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash

Excellent and comprehensive photographic guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Ireland. This completely revised second edition covers in detail the ....

British Damselflies

Graham Sherwin

The DVD starts with an Introduction to both dragonflies and damselflies describing their anatomy, life cycle and behaviour. It also gives tips on how to use the DVD and where ....

Butterfly Behaviour

Beauties or Beasts

Rob de Jong

This film was shot in butterfly-rich Hungary and in the alpine region of Slovenia. The resulting footage has been acquired with much patience, taking two years to complete, by ....

DK Handbook: Insects, Spiders and Other Terrestrial Arthropods

George C McGavin

From wasps to beetles, discover over 550 insects, spiders and other terrestrial arthropods. Focusing on 300 of the main insect families and covering the incredible ....

Faune de France, Volume 92: Hémiptères Reduviidae d'Europe Occidentale

Pavel V Putshkov and Pierre Moulet

The Incomparable Honeybee

and the Economics of Pollination

Dr Reese Halter

This book is a concise account of the honeybees, the most important group of pollinators that have profoundly shaped the planet for the past 110 million years. It is rich with ....

Les Libellules et Ephemeres de la Reunion

Dominique Martire

Taschenlexikon der Kafer Europas

Ein Fuhrer zu den Haufigsten Arten

H Bellman

Pocket lexicon of beetles of Europe. ....

The Witt Catalogue: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Cuculliinae I

Noctuoidea

Gabor Ronkay and Laszlo Ronkay

This volumes includes the genera Cucullia and Calocucullia, comprising 150 taxa of 126 species. 57 colour and 150 black-and-white plates illustrate each taxa. ....

The Witt Catalogue: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Plusiinae I

Noctuoidea

Laszlo Ronkay, Gabor Ronkay and Gottfried Behounek

This volume covers the genera Erythroplusia, Macdunnoughia, Sclerogenia, Antoculeora, Diachrysia, Euchalcia, Desertoplusia, Platoplusia, Polychrysia, Panchrysia, Lamprotes, ....

The Witt Catalogue: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Apameini I

Noctuoidea

Alberto Zilli, Zoltan Varga, Gabor Ronkay and Laszlo Ronkay

This volume covers 16 genera of the Apamea complex over 57 colour and 156 black-and-white plates along with the latest taxonomic and synonomic information. ....

Dinosaur Discoveries

William Stout

This book features 61 new dinosaurs, found or described within the last twenty years, illustrated in their natural environment by the author and accompanied with descriptive ....

Dinosaur Eggs and Skeletons from Henan Province in China

Wang Deyou

Dinosaurs

A Field Guide

Gregory S Paul

This is a large-format field guide to the true dinosaurs - the Tetrapoda (excludes pterosaurs and marine reptiles). Dinosaur taxonomy is complex and contentious, and while ....

Les Coraux du Sud-Yemen

Michel Pichon, Francesca Benzoni, Claude-Henri Chaineau and Eric Dutrieux

Study of the corals of southern Yemen. ....

Field Guide to Corals and Coral Associates of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

DV Rao

This illustrated field guide also includes brief information on corals and coral formation and the biology and ecology of associated animal groups. ....

Life in the World's Oceans

Diversity, Distribution and Abundance

Edited by Alasdair McIntyre

This book comprises the synthesis and analysis of the results of the Census of Marine Life and brings together the work of around 2000 scientists from 80 nations around the ....

Plankton of Inland Waters

Edited by Gene E Likens

This book covers protists, bacteria, fungi, algae and zooplankton as well as the functional and system interactions of planktonic and attached forms in aquatic ....

Seaweeds and Their Role in Globally Changing Environments

Edited by Joseph Seckbach, Rachel Einav and Alvaro Israel

Marine plants play a vital role in maintaining the balance of marine environments, while serving as a source of food for humankind and important chemical compounds. Microalgae ....

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18

1870

Edited by Frederick H Burkhardt, James A Secord et al

This volume contains full texts of all known letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1870. ....

Deadly Kingdom

The Book of Dangerous Animals

Gordon Grice

How does a tiny box jellyfish, with no brain and little control over where it goes in the water, manage to kill a full-grown man? What harm have hippos been known to inflict ....

Exceptional Women Environmentalists

Frances Rooney

This book profiles ten amazing women who prove how ordinary people can do extraordianry things. ....

Wild Comfort

The Solace of Nature

Kathleen Dean Moore

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, the author turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ....

Brohmer Fauna von Deutschland

Ein Bestimmungsbuch unserer Heimischen Tierwelt

Edited by M Shaefer et al

Identification guide to German fauna. ....

Countryside

Discover the Best of Rural Britain

Time Out

Like the successful "Seaside", "Countryside" features the best of the British Isles, all beautifully photographed and evocatively brought to life. Thirty areas covering all ....

Entre Mar y Tierra / Between Sea and Land

Las Marismas del Sur / The Southern Marshes

Juan Varela

Between Sea and Land is an artistic venture completed in 2008 and 2009. During four prolonged visits to the Donyana Reserva Biologica, the Nature Reserve and the Odiel ....

Faune des Antilles

Jean-Francois Maillard

Kentucky's Natural Heritage

An Illustrated Guide to Biodiversity

Edited by Greg Abernathy, Deborah White, Ellis L Laudermilk and Marc Evans

Kentucky is celebrated for its racehorses and fields of bluegrass, but even the casual observer also notices the wide range of flora and fauna found across the commonwealth. ....

Limestone Hills and Caves of the Kinta Valley

SL Wong and CK Seng

A coffee table book of photos capturing the stunning karst landscape of the Kinta Valley which surrounds Ipoh in the state of Perak. The photos were taken over two decades, and ....

Natural History of Nihoa and Necker Islands

Neal L Evenhuis and Lucius G Eldredge

This is the first book of its type to combine cultural, geological, and biological knowledge to provide a rare glimpse into the natural history of these little-known ....

Pocket Pack: Identifying British Wildlife

L Merrick

A pack of 40 laminated double-sided A6 cards covering 80 species for identifying British common Land Invertebrates and common Freshwater invertebrates, Amphibians and Fish. ....

Sublime Beauty

Hawai'i's Trees

Jim Wageman

A celebration of the majestic beauty that trees have brought to the diverse habitats and landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands. Through stunning scenic shots and close-ups, author ....

Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest

Tracking and Identifying Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Invertebrates

David Moskowitz

Wild animals fascinate, yet are rarely seen. It is possible, though - if you know what to look for and where, and if you understand what you see - to increase your chances of ....

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 48

Edited by Michel Delseny and Jean-Claude Kader

Vascular development and differentiation ....

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 49

Edited by Michel Delseny and Jean-Claude Kader

Relationship between phototropism and gravitropism -John Z. Kiss ....

Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants and Polynesian-Introduced Plants

Noa Kekuewa Lincoln

Native Hawaiian plants make up a unique flora because of the extreme isolation of the Hawaiian Islands. When the Polynesian settlers arrived, they encountered many plants ....

Atlas of the Bryophytes of South Hampshire

Rod Stern

There was only limited systematic recording in Hampshire between 1960 and 2000. However, mainly as a result of site surveys, many new records were made during that period. The ....

Bananas and Plantains

JC Robinson

Bananas and plantains are major fruit crops in the tropics and subtropics and make a vital contribution to the economies of a number of countries. They are very important in ....

Boissiera Volume 62: Flora des Bergell

Mit Andeutung der Grenzgebiete

Remo Maurizio

Collins Complete Garden

Paul Sterry

An essential photographic guide to the rich variety of wildlife found in your garden. Gardens mean different things to different people. For some, they are merely another ....

DK Handbook: Mushrooms

Thomas Laessoe

From the False Oyster to the Green Stain, discover over 500 species of mushrooms in the wild. 2,300 incredible photos, precise annotations and detailed descriptions, including ....

Ferns and Fern Allies of Iran

R Khoshravesh, H Akhani, M Eskandari and W Greuter

Rostaniha Volume 10 (Supplement 1), 2009. ....

Flora Liquenologica Iberica: Cladoniaceae

Ana Rosa Burgaz and Tuevo Ahti

Flora Neotropica, Volume 105: Theophrastaceae

Bertil Stahl

The Theophrastaceae are a family of shrubs and small trees comprising 95 species in seven genera. The family is centered in the Caribbean and its distribution is strictly ....

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 13, Part 4: Xyridaceae, Eriocaulaceae, Typhaceae, Restionaceae, Flagellariaceae, Juncaceae, Musaceae, Strelitziaceae, Costaceae, Zingiberaceae, Cannaceae, Marantaceae

Edited by Jonathan Timberlake

Flora del Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta

Francesco Festi and F Prosser

The Adamello Brenta Natural Park is a wide protected area on the west side of the Trento Province in north-eastern Italy. It was recognized in 2008 as international "Geopark" ....

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Cyperaceae

Edited by HJ Beentje and SA Ghazanfar

Florescence

The World's Most Beautiful Flowers

Clive Nichols and Noel Kingsbury

In this collection of images, flowers are shown in all their glory, from the delicately flared petals of the crocus to the close-packed velvet whorls of a red rose. Concise ....

Flowers and Herbs of Early America

Lawrence D Griffith and Barbara Temple Lombardi

Hounds-tongue, Ragged robin, Costmary, and Pennyroyal all-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown ....

Flowers of Mongolia

Michael H Hauck and Zeerd-Aduuchid B Solongo

In this book about the flora of Mongolia more than 1000 colour photos of more than 400 species of vascular plants belonging to more than 70 families are presented. That is ....

Garden Farming

Hugh Lanham

This book offers advice for all those who want to engage in substantial domestic food production but who stop short of wishing to embrace the very demanding lifestyle choice ....

Garden Styles

An Essential Guide

Freda Cox

This book offers different and inspirational styles from around the world to encourage the gardner to try something new. Exploring garden designs from ancient to modern, it ....

Great Trees of London

Time Out Guides Ltd

This book brings together over 60 trees around London that have achieved Great Tree status - as determined by the popular tree-planting charity Trees for Cities. ....

Guide des Fougeres et Plantes Alliees Indigenes des Mascareignes

Edmond Grangaud

Guide to ferns and allied indigenous plants of the Mascareign Islands. ....

Guide des Plantes Protegées de Midi-Pyrenées

CBNPMP

This book covers more than 300 protected plant species found in the bio- and habitat-diverse region of the Midi-Pyrenees, France. ....

Guide to Floodplain Meadows

W Gowing

Produced in association with the Floodplain Meadows Partnership, this new fold-out chart features illustrations of 48 key floodplain plant species, and indicates what they can ....

Illustrated Flora of Nordic Liverworts and Hornworts

Kell Damsholt

Contains thorough morphological descriptions and full ecological details on almost 300 species, together with keys to their identification and a glossary. Fine illustrations ....

An Illustrated Guide to the Flora of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean Islands

AG Fakim

Introduces the colourful and commonly found plants of the islands. Botanical names, common names, descriptions, origin, habitat, etymology of names, and general ....

Key to Identifying Flowers of Chalk Grassland

Through Observable Features

L Merrick

Identification starts by Petal number and type. This side identifies flowers with six or more regular petals or irregular petals. The reverse side shows flowers with five petals ....

Oak Spring Herbaria

L Tongiorgi Tomasi

An Oak Spring Herbaria is the long awaited fourth volume in the series of catalogs describing the great illustrated plant books conserved at Rachel Lambert Mellon's Oak ....

The Organic Herb Gardener

Graham Clarke

Discover the wonderful diversity of herbs in this comprehensive guide for the organic grower. The amazing range of colours, size, textures and perfumes make growing herbs an ....

Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective

Edited by Frantiaek Baluaka and Velemir Ninkovic

This book shows the complexity of plant signaling and behavior in an ecological context and is intended to increase our understanding of it. It reflects the multifaceted ....

The Plants of Lebialem Highlands (Bechati-Fosimondi Besali), Cameroon

A Conservation Checklist

Yvette Harvey and Barthelemy Tchiengue

This book provides a flora of the Lebialem Highlands area, Cameroon. Introductory chapters cover the vegetation, geology, soil types, climate, threats, invasive and alien ....

Red Algae in the Genomic Age

Edited by Joseph Seckbach and David J Chapman

This volume covers the modern biology and the speciation of the red algae (Rhodophyta) from unicellular Cyanidia up to macrocellular sea weeds. A team of peer reviewers has ....

The Illustrated Flora of Golestan National Park, Iran. Vol.1

Hossein Akhani

In English, with 90 pages of introductory data in Farsi (General part, vegetation, plant geography,threats to species and ecosystems, Bryophyte flora, Fungi flora, Lichen flora ....

Towards a Better Understanding of Trees and Shrubs of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean Islands

AG Fakim

This book has been deisgned to help the amateur identify the plants of Mauritius and Indian Ocean Islands and appreciate their value. Each plant monograph gives the common ....

Toxic Plant Proteins

Edited by J Michael Lord and Martin R Hartley

Many plants produce enzymes collectively known as ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs). RIPs catalyze the removal of an adenine residue from a conserved loop in the large ....

Trace Elements in Soils and Plants

A Kabata-Pendias

This fourth edition of a bestseller reflects the explosion of research during the past decade regarding trace elements and the environment related to the soil-plant system. It ....

Trees UK CD-ROM

A program for easy identification of common British trees and shrubs that are likely to be found in the locality of schools, including school grounds, parks and waste spaces. ....

Trees and Shrubs of British Columbia

T Christopher Brayshaw

This guide covers all known species native or naturalized to British Columbia, and ....

Tropical African Flowering Plants: Ecology and Distribution, Volume 5

Buxaceae - Simaroubaceae

J-P Lebrun and AL Stork

The COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use

Refinement, Reduction, and Research

Edited by Bryan Robert Howard, Timo Nevalainen and Gemma Perretta

COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) is an intergovernmental initiative in science and research intended to promote the ....

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

3 volume set

Edited by Michael D Breed and Janice Moore

This comprehensive work covers not only the usual topics such as communication, learning, sexual selection, navigation and the history of the field, but also emerging ....

Encyclopedia of Animal Science

Edited by Duane E Ullrey, Charlotte K Baer and Wilson G Pond

Written and edited by a distinguished team of experts, this encyclopedia encompasses animal physiology; animal growth and development; animal behavior; animal reproduction ....

From Elephants to Mice

Animals Who Have Touched My Soul

James Mahoney

This is a heartfelt narrative on the many ways animals touch our lives. From wild Asian elephants to chimpanzees in a research laboratory to 'lowly' field mice, this ....

In Pursuit of the Blood-Red Slavemaker

Adventures in Neurobiology

David Wallis

This is a personal history of science as related to the author's own experiences in neurobiolgy, and examines such areas as food sharing and slave-making rituals in ants, ....

Molecular Biology of RNA

David Elliott and Michael Ladomery

For many years, RNA was thought to have something of a supplementary role in genome function - an intermediate in the flow of biological information from gene to protein. ....

Muscles of Vertebrates

Comparative Anatomy, Evolution, Homologies and Development

Rui Diogo and Virginia Abdala

This book provides a detailed account of the comparative anatomy, development, homologies, and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral, and forelimb muscles of ....

A Naturalist and Other Beasts

George B Schaller

Since the 1950s, eminent field biologist George Schaller has roamed through many lands observing wild animals and conducting landmark long-term studies that have deepened our ....

Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour

David Young and Peter J Simmons

An extensively revised third edition of this introduction to neuroethology - the neuronal basis of animal behaviour - for zoology, biology and psychology undergraduate ....

Principles and Practices of Plant Genomics, Volume 3

Advanced Genomics

Edited by Chittaranjan Kole and Albert G Abbott

This book presents the basic and applied aspects of sequencing of genes and genomes and their implication in the fine-scale elucidation of the plant genomes. The third volume ....

Evolution After Gene Duplication

Katharina Dittmar and David A Liberles

Gene duplication has long been believed to have played a major role in the rise of biological novelty through evolution of new function and gene expression patterns. This ....

Evolution of Island Mammals

Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands

Alexandra van der Geer, George Lyras, John de Vos and Michael Dermitzakis

Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs ....

Human Evolutionary Biology

Edited by Michael Muehlenbein

Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and ....

The Humans Who Went Extinct

Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

Clive Finlayson

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk ....

Modular Evolution

How Natural Selection Produces Biological Complexity

Lucio Vinicius

Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to ....

Global Ecology

Edited by Sven Erik Jorgensen

This book deals with the ecology of planet earth, focusing on its ecological components, the biosphere, and one of the most important environmental issues being faced today - ....

Restoring Disturbed Landscapes

Putting Principles into Practice

David J Tongway and John A Ludwig

"Restoring Disturbed Landscapes" is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes. Abundantly illustrated with photos and ....

Biodiversity Assessment of Tropical Island Ecosystems

PABITRA Manual for Interactive Ecology and Management

Edited by Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Kent W Bridges and Curtis C Daehler

Details methods for systematic sampling and monitoring of the biological diversity in terrestrial, aquatic, coastal, and marine ecosystems for tropical island environments. ....

Biogeochemistry of Inland Waters

Edited by Gene E Likens

This volume examines the transformation, flux and cycling of chemical compounds in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, combining aspects of biology, ecology, geology and ....

Biological Impact of a Large-Scale Desalination Plant at Key West

RH Chesher

Climate Change Biology

Lee Hannah

This book examines the emerging discipline of human-induced climate change and the resulting shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. ....

Coasts and Seas of the United Kingdom, Regions 1-17 Set

Edited by JH Barne, CF Robson, SS Kaznowska, NC Davidson and JP Doody

The Coastal Directories Project sets out to collect and collate summary information that will provide an overview of coastal and ....

Desalination

Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome and John McBrewster

Desalination. Soil salinity control, SaltMod, SahysMod, Multi-stage flash distillation, Vacuum distillation, Cogeneration, Groundwater, Submarine. ....

Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life

Making Ocean Life Count

Paul Snelgrove

Over the 10-year course of the recently completed Census of Marine Life, a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations has collaborated to improve our ....

Le Dune e gli Ambiente Umidi Costieri della Sicilia

tra passato, presente e futuro

F La Piana and I Sparacio

The dunes and saltmarshes of Sicily are described and fully illustrated. Botany, entomology, malacology, ornithology, mammals, landscape and ecology are extensively ....

Ecosystem Function in Savannas

Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales

Edited by Michael J Hill and Niall P Hanan

Spanning biophysics, biochemistry, land use change, and measurement and modeling, this book addresses the quantitative spatial and temporal dynamics of global savannas. It ....

Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests

Edited by Jurgen Bauhus, Peter Van der Meer and Markku Kanninen

Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, ....

Environmental Impact Assessment

K Horton

Gives an overview of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process and explains the concepts and the legislative process of an EIA. ....

Forest Wildlife Ecology and Habitat Management

David R Patton

Combining concepts of forest and wildlife management, this book provides resources and research, practical field experience, and planning and inventory methods for sustaining ....

Lake Ecosystem Ecology

A Global Perspective

Edited by Gene E Likens

This volume examines the workings of the lake and reservoir ecosystems of the planet. Information and perspectives crucial to the understanding and management of current ....

Land Degradation and Desertification

Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation

Edited by Pandi Zdruli, Marcello Pagliai, Selim Kapur and Angel Fax Cano

Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and ....

River Ecosystem Ecology

A Global Perspective

Edited by Gene E Likens

This volume reviews the function of rivers and streams as ecosystems as well as the varied activities and interactions that occur among their abiotic and biotic components. ....

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

Edited by Markus Stoffel, Bollschweiler Bollschweiler, David R Butler and B Luckman

The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and records of damage ....

Urban Green

Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities

Peter Harnik

This book explores new and innovative ways for built-out cities to add much-needed parkland. After first exploring the question of why urban parks are needed, the author ....

Vermiculture Technology

Earthworms, Organic Wastes, and Environmental Management

Edited by Clive A Edwards, Norman Q Arancon and Rhonda L Sherman

Exploring the dramatic growth and change in the field of vermicomposting since 1988, this comprehensive review assesses the advancements made in government-funded projects ....

Biodiversity in the New Forest

Edited by Adrian C Newton

The New Forest is one of the most important areas for wildlife in the UK, being home to large numbers of flowering plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, bats, birds, mammals, ....

Biological Diversity

Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment

Edited by Anne Magurran and Brian J McGill

This book provides an up to date, authoritative review of the methods of measuring and assessing biological diversity, together with their application. The emphasis is on ....

China's Biodiversity: A Country Study

State Environmental Protection Administration

Provides a preliminary summary of China's biodiversity, one of the richest in the world, and the work needed for its preservation. The book is a study of China's plants, animals ....

Illustrations of the Legally Protected British Species

A Supplement to the Checklist of Legally Protected British Species

CJ Betts

This illustrated supplement to the Checklist of Legally Protected British Species has been produced to give non-specialists an idea of what Britain's legally protected fauna ....

Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa

New Boundaries for Development

Edited by Steffan Bauer and Imme Scholz

This volume identifies the new socioeconomic and political boundaries to development that result from ongoing climate change in Southern Africa. The collected papers explore ....

Air Quality Management

R Barratt

This book gives an introduction to the nature and sources of air pollution, together with an outline of meteorological effects and biomonitoring. Air pollution prevention ....

Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society

Edited by John Dodson

The book covers state-of-the-art considerations on how climate change has and will deliver impacts on major globalised biophysical and societal themes that will affect the ....

Chernobyl

Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment

Edited by AV Yablokov, VB Nesterenko, AV Nesterenko and JD Sherman-Nevinger

This volume, written by leading authorities from Eastern Europe, outlines the history of the health and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and provides a ....

Climate Change in Europe

Joseph Alcamo and Jorgen E Olesen

Although there is wide public interest in climate change, most of the latest information is available only in technical reports. This ground-breaking text ....

Climate Refugees

Collectif Argos

According to the United Nations, some 150 million people will become climate refugees by 2050. The journalists and photographers of Collectif Argos have spent four years seeking ....

Climate of Extremes

Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

Patrick J Michaels and Robert C Balling

Is the weather truly getting worse? When it comes to global warming, dire predictions seem to be all we see or hear. Climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. ....

The Diatoms

Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences

Edited by Eugene F Stoermer and John P Smol

This much revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and detailed summary of the many uses of diatoms in a wide range of applications in the environmental and earth ....

The Economics of Climate Change in China

Towards a Low Carbon Economy

Edited by Karl Hallding, Lailai Li et al

China faces many modernisation challenges. But perhaps none is more pressing than that posed by climate change. China must find a new economic growth model that is ....

Ecotoxicology

Edited by Sven Erik Jorgensen

This compilation of articles also includes an alphabetical listing of toxic substances and chemicals to serve as a quick reference guide. ....

Environmental Engineering 3

Edited by Lucjan Pawlowski, Marzenna R Dudzinska and Artur Pawlowski

Environmental engineering has a leading role in the elimination of ecological threats, and can deal with a wide range of technical and technological problems due to its ....

Environmental Policies for Air Pollution and Climate Change in the New Europe

Caterina De Lucia

This book presents an integrated approach to recent regulations on air pollution with particular emphasis on transborder air pollution, climate change and energy policies in ....

Geographical Information and Climatology

Pierre Carrega

The first part of this book covers fundamental principles including geospatial climate data measurement, spatial analysis, mapping and climate, geographical information and ....

Global Commons, Domestic Decisions

The Comparative Politics of Climate Change

Edited by Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

This book explains international action on climate change from the perspective of countries' domestic politics. ....

Global Warming

Brian Black and Gary Weisel

"Global Warming" takes one of the hot issues of our time and surveys it in historical context, creating an intellectual portrait of multi-century shifts in thinking that have ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 10: Chlorinated Paraffins

Edited by Jacob de Boer

Chlorinated paraffins are one of the last classes of chlorinated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in high quantities in many applications. They ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 11: Polymers

Opportunities and Risks I

Edited by Peter Eyerer, Martin Weller and Christof Hubner

Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and ....

Landforms and Cycles

Mark A Sephton and S Smith

This book looks at two topics in environmental science: Landforms looks at the physical features of the Earth's land surface, where they occur, how they form and how they ....

The Power of the Sea

Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Tame the Oceans

Bruce Parker

This book reveals the amazing power of the oceans and explains for the first time how scientists have learned to predict the sea's destructive moments that can take the lives ....

The Real Global Warming Disaster

Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?

Christopher Booker

Booker is a celebrated controversialist with a particular interest in what he sees as an exaggerated environmental scare: global warming. He interweaves what he regards as the ....

Selected Topics in Environmental Science, Topics 1-4

Extreme Weather, Atmospheric Chemistry and Pollution, Wetlands and the Carbon Cycle, Cryosphere

R Reynolds, Kiki Warr, N Dise and R Hodgkins

This book looks at four topics in environmental science: Extreme Weather explores the extreme weather features of explosive frontal cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes. ....

Selected Topics in Environmental Science, Topics 5-8

Oceans and Climate, Water Quality, Eutrophication, Acid Rain

Mark Brandon, C Chapman, J Treweek, D Gowing, J Cosby and T Allott

This book looks at four topics in environmental science: Oceans and Climate considers the effect of the ocean on climate. It looks in detail at the shape of the oceans, the ....

Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities

Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities 2010

UN-Habitat

In the rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities. This book provides a fresh perspective and new data on ....

Toxic Chemicals

Risk Prevention Through Use Reduction

Thomas E Higgins, Jayanti A Sachdev and Stephen A Engleman

Written to help readers understand the relative toxic impacts of chemicals used in creating and maintaining consumer and industrial products, this reference proposes a ....

Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability

Edited by John Church, Philip L Woodworth, T Aarup and S Wilson

This book identifies the major impacts of sea-level rise, presents up-to-date assessments of past sea-level change, thoroughly explores all of the factors ....

Wastes Management

Samuel Burnley and S Crompton

This book examines the impacts on public health and the wider environment of all aspects of waste management in the UK. It also reviews the ways in which European legislation ....

Water Pollution Control

Suresh Nesaratnam

This book gives an overview of the characteristics of rivers and lakes and how they affect each other. It also provides an overview of water treatment, supply and demand ....

Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters

Leo H Holthuijsen

Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal ....

Weather of the Future

Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet

Heidi Cullen

This book offers detailed predictions of what the world will look like if nothing is done to curb CO2 emissions. Combining interviews with climate scientists from around the ....

Analytical Modeling of Solute Transport in Groundwater

Using Models to Understand the Effect of Natural Processes on Contaminant Fate

Mark Goltz and Junqi Huang

From research on the remediation of contaminant, this book emphasizes using and applying models to understand the impact of various processes of transport. ....

Biodegradation of Azo Dyes

Edited by Hatice Atacag Erkurt

Azo dyes play an important role as coloring agents in the textile, food, and pharmaceutical industry. Due to the toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of azo ....

DK Handbook: Stars and Planets

Ian Ridpath

A new edition of the clearest, most authoritative guide to stars and planets you will find ....

Earth Materials

Kevin Hefferan and John O'Brien

Today, as earth science curricula are evolving rapidly, many programs throughout the US are adopting new approaches to the study of earth materials. At many universities earth ....

Gemstones

Cally Hall

This is a new edition of the clearest, most authoritative guide to gemstones you will find. From Amber to Rubellite, discover over 130 varieties of cut and uncut stones, ....

Geological Field Techniques

Edited by Angela L Coe

This book examines the broad spectrum of tasks completed during geological field work and shows how to make field observations and collect primary geological data rather than ....

The Geology of Britain

Julian Ashbourn

The book discusses the geological and natural history of Britain through the early geological formation of the British Isles, the variety of ground rock and how it has ....

Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth

Edited by Carolus J Schrijver and George L Siscoe

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of ....

Heliophysics: Space Storms and Radiation: Causes and Effects

Edited by Carolus J Schrijver and George L Siscoe

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of ....

In Search of the Multiverse

John Gribbin

We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe itself might just be ....

The International Karakoram Project: Volume 1

Edited by KJ Miller

First published in 1984, this volume and its companion relate to the work of a group of 70 scientists from Britain, China, Pakistan, Switzerland and the USA who visited the ....

The International Karakoram Project: Volume 2

KJ Miller

First published in 1984, this volume and its companion relate to the work of a group of 70 scientists from Britain, China, Pakistan, Switzerland and the USA who visited the ....

Introducing Geology

A Guide to the World of Rocks

Graham Park

Our world is made of rock. Although much of the Earth's surface is covered by vegetation, concrete or water, if one digs down far enough solid rock will always be ....

An Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres

Agustin Sanchez-Lavega and Derek Raine

This book provides an introduction to the science of planetary atmospheres and includes recent research that relates theories to modern observational results. Each chapter ....

Reservoir Geomechanics

Mark D Zoback

This interdisciplinary book encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise ....

World Atlas of Oil and Gas Basins

Li Guoyu

The New Atlas of World Oil and Gas Basins is a culmination of author's research and studies on world oil and geology carried out over the past 57 years. The Atlas covers an ....

2030

Technology That Will Change the World

Rutger A Van Santen, Djan Khoe and Bram Vermeer

Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the ....

Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation

Stefan Andreasson

Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a ....

Agri-food Chain Relationships

Edited by Christian Fischer and Monika Hartmann

The integration into global and local agri-food value chains requires farmers, food processors and grocery retailers to develop and maintain close and sustainable business ....

The Agronomy and Economy of Important Tree Crops of the Developing World

K P Prabhakaran Nair

Major tree crops contribute substantially to the economy of many developing countries on the Asian, African and Latin American continents. This book provides a comprehensive ....

Animals as Biotechnology

Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies

Richard Twine

In this volume, the author, a sociologist, places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. ....

Beyond the Biophysical

Edited by Laura A German, Joshua J Ramisch and Ritu Verma

"Beyond the Biophysical" provides a broad overview of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) scholarship and practice that lies beyond the biophysical, emphasizing ....

Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Buildings

A Technical Guide for New Build

Carol Williams

The built environment has the potential to have a major impact on biodiversity, not least with the increasingly demanding requirements to design more energy efficient and ....

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Genetically Modified Organisms

Gabor L Lovei, Thomas Bohn and Angelika Hilbeck

This paper considers the potential environmental impact of genetically modified (GM) crops and links this to the concepts of biodiversity and ecosystem services. ....

Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis

Practical Design and Theory

Prabir Basu

Modernized biomass gasification for power generation has attracted increasing interests as an attempt to reduce the reliance on fossil fuel. In fact, over the past couple of ....

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics

A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being

Richard Evanoff

While a number of schools of environmental thought - including social ecology, ecofeminism, ecological Marxism, ecoanarchism, and bioregionalism - have attempted to ....

Build a Green Small Business

Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur

Scott Cooney

From organic groceries to fuel-efficient cars and toxicity-free dry cleaning, the opportunities to profit from a business that builds local communities, heals the ....

Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources

This Atlas brings to its readers a sense of the beauty and wealth in Central Asia, the issues its people face in using and conserving natural resources, and the efforts toward ....

Cents and Sustainability

Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures

Michael H Smith, Karlson Charlie Hargroves and Cheryl Desha

The authors investigate a range of new evidence and research in order to develop a deeper understanding of how, and under what conditions, forceful sustainable growth is ....

The Converging World

How One Community's Path to Zero Waste is Helping Save Our Planet

John Pontin

This book tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. ....

Dead Aid

Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

D Moyo

We all want to help. Over the past fifty years USD1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this ....

Desalination and Advanced Water Treatment

Economics and Financing

Corrado Sommariva

The rapid growth of this market is challenged by the increased fossil energy prices and the need to increase energy efficiency and to reduce environmental impact. ....

Disappearing Destinations

Climate Change and the Future Challenges for Coastal Tourism

AL Jones and M Philips

Providing a thorough examination of the threats posed to destinations by tourism, this comprehensive text discusses how popular and fragile destinations such as the Great ....

Ecological Intelligence: Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy

How Radical Transparency Transforms the Marketplace

D Goleman

Most of us want to make the right choices as consumers. But how can any one individual's choices make a difference? And, more importantly, what are the right choices? In this ....

Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory

The Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal

Mathew Humphrey

This volume examines the reasons why some despair at the prospects for an ecological form of democracy, and challenges the recent `deliberative turn' in environmental ....

The Ecological Revolution

Making Peace with the Planet

John Bellamy Foster

Since the atomic bomb made its first appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made ....

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

Edited by J Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman

The field of environmental ethics is a new but now well-established sub-discipline of philosophy. Emerging in the mid-1970s, the field coalesced with the inaugural volume of ....

Ending Aid Dependence

Yash Tandon

Developing countries reliant on aid want to escape this dependence, and yet they appear unable to do so. This book shows how they may liberate themselves from the aid that ....

The Environment, Risk and Public Health

R Barratt and JP Parfitt

An introduction to what we understand by the environment and concerns for its protection. ....

Environmental Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives

King-Tak Ip

This book shows that environmental protection is a global concern that must enlist all of humanity's cultural, religious, and moral resources. The nine essays in this volume ....

Environmental Justice in the New Millennium

Global Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights

Filomina Chioma Steady

Environmental Justice is one of the most important human rights challenges today, referring to inequitable environmental burdens born by groups such as racial minorities, ....

Environmental Law

John F McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney

This textbook explores all areas of the law relating to the environment. Legal principles and key cases are discussed alongside historical, social and economic ....

The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice

Edited by Michael F Maniates and John M Meyer

The idea of sacrifice is the unspoken issue of environmental politics. Politicians, the media, and many environmentalists assume that well-off populations won't make sacrifices ....

Estimating Groundwater Recharge

Richard J Healy and Bridget Scanlon

Understanding groundwater recharge is essential for successful management of water resources and modeling fluid and contaminant transport within the subsurface. This book ....

Fisheries Subsidies, Sustainable Development and the WTO

Edited by Anja Von Moltke

This book explains why and how the reform of fisheries subsidies has become one of the most concrete and potentially successful international efforts to achieve global ....

Food Security and Global Environmental Change

Edited by John Ingram, Polly Ericksen and Diana Liverman

Global environmental change represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale ....

From Water Scarcity to Sustainable Water Use in the West Bank, Palestine

Dima Wadi Nazer

Adequate management of water resources is important, specifically when resources are limited. A starting point for adequate management of water is ....

Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding of Soybean

Edited by Kristin Bilyeu, Milind B Ratnaparkhe and Chittaranjan Kole

In addition to human consumption, the soybean is a major protein source in animal feeds and is becoming a major crop for biodiesel production. For many decades, plant breeders ....

Global Environmental Politics

Concepts, Theories and Case Studies

Edited by Gabriela Kutting

This text combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts with a series of detailed case studies of the most pressing ....

Gorgeously Green

Sophie Uliano

In this day and age, adopting a "green" lifestyle is among the most positive, forward-thinking, and personally fulfilling choices that anyone can make. Yet many women ....

Green Entrepreneur Handbook

The Guide to Building and Growing a Green and Clean Business

Eric Koester

Although opportunities abound in the 'Green Sector', anyone planning on entering this sector cannot not leap first and look later. This book provides 'must-know' information ....

Green Gone Wrong

The Broken Promise of the Eco-Friendly Economy

Heather Rogers

Faced with the unprecedented threat of climate change, the contemporary world has turned to a solution that is all too prosaic-consumerism. The answer, we are told, is to go ....

Green Nanotechnology

Solutions for Sustainability and Energy in the Built Environment

Geoffrey B Smith and Claes-Goran S Granqvist

This text examines the role nanotechnology plays in meeting the challenges inherent in minimizing environmental impacts while maximizing energy resources. ....

Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops

Edited by NK Fageria, VC Baligar and CA Jones

Examines climate-soil-plant interrelationships governing the nutritional and growth aspects of cereal, legume, and pasture crops--providing basic and applied information to ....

Implementation of the CFP - An Evaluation of Progress Made Since 2002

I Lutchman, K Van den Bossche and F Zino

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) underwent two major reviews in both 1992 and 2002. The next official review will be held in 2012. The 2002 review was more comprehensive than ....

Issues of the Day

100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy

Edited by Ian WH Parry and Felicia Day

This title covers a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment, energy, transportation and public health. Each commentary gives a short assessment of a topic, ....

Knowledge and Environmental Policy

Re-imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics

William Ascher, Toddi Steelman and Robert Healy

As the authors of this book point out, the problems in connecting scientific discovery to science-based policy are systemic. The process - currently structured in a futile ....

The Little Green Data Book 2010

World Bank

A pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries that includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, ....

Living Terraces in Ethiopia

Konso Landscape, Culture and Development

Elizabeth E Watson

Terraced agricultural landscapes in Africa are remarkable feats of human engineering and social organization, enabling the conservation of soil and water and the cultivation of ....

Localist Movements in a Global Economy

Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States

David J Hess

The internationalization of economies and other changes that accompany globalization have brought about a paradoxical reemergence of the local. A significant but largely ....

Making Poverty

A History

Thomas Lines

As prices collapse and farming becomes commercialized, swallowed up by the global supply chains of giant food corporations and supermarkets, a desperate situation is emerging in ....

Mycorrhizal Biotechnology

Edited by Devarajan Thangadurai, Carlos Alberto Busso and Mohamed Hijri

Several studies have demonstrated that mycorrhizal associations play vital role in plant nutrition. They greatly increase the efficiency of nutrient and water uptake, enhance ....

Nature Writing Field Guide for Teachers

JD Wellik

Nature Writing Field Guide for Teachers offers educators a unique blend of literary and environmental science writing activities for grades 1-12. The nature writing curriculum ....

Nature and Culture

Rebuilding Lost Connections

Edited by Sarah Pilgrim and Jules N Pretty

There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But there remains a common disciplinary division between nature and ....

Nourishing the Earth, Nourishing the People

A Madagascan Success Story

Brett Shapiro, A Woldeyes, H Ramilison, A Rakotondratsima and B Thierry

As accelerated urbanization widens the gap between rich and poor and population growth becomes a global phenomenon, key strategies promoting rural economic development need to ....

Pest and Disease Management for Organic Farmers, Growers and Smallholders

Gareth Davies, Phil Sumption and Anton Rosenfeld

"Pest and Disease Management for Organic Farmers, Growers and Smallholders" is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of the subject in temperate areas. Incorporating ....

The Plundered Planet

How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature

Paul Collier

Paul Collier's "The Bottom Billion" had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with "The Plundered Planet", he has set himself an even more ambitious ....

The Power of Sustainable Thinking

How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life

Bob Doppelt

In this new book, renowned sustainability and business and organizational change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical ....

Power to Change the World

Alternative Energy and the Rise of the Solar City

S L Klein

This book, which is the result of a uniquely broad-based, three-year investigation, is built on the premise that the complex threat we face can be mitigated by addressing the ....

The Presence of Nature

A Study in Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy

Simon P James

What is 'nature'? In what sense are humans parts of it? And why, if at all, should we strive to conserve it? Environmental issues raise a host of fascinating philosophical ....

The Pursuit of Ecotopia

Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World

EN Anderson

Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. "The Pursuit of Ecotopia" argues that the root of our ....

Rationality and the Environment

Decision Making in Environmental Politics and Assessment

Bo Elling

Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision making processes. The result is that within these essentially ....

A Reenchanted World

The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature

James William Gibson

For more than two centuries, as Western cultures became ever more industrialized, the natural world was increasingly regarded as little more than a ....

Renewable Energy

A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets

Edited by Dirk Assmann, Ulrich Laumanns and Dieter Uh

This book presents a comprehensive review of renewable energy from world authorities in the field. It provides detailed, thematic coverage, including policy recommendations and ....

Renewable Energy

Four Volume Set

Edited by Bent Sorensen

This four-volume set brings together in one collection a series of papers that have been fundamental to the development of renewable energy as a defined discipline. ....

Renewable Energy and the Public

From NIMBY to Participation

Edited by Patrick Devine-Wright

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is ....

The Rough Guide to Food

G Miller

Attention food lovers - The Rough Guide to Food is here to show you that food can be good for you, good for the planet and taste great, all at the same time! Navigating ....

Running Out of Water

The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource

Peter Rogers and Susan Leal

While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is the availability of this essential element is delining. Global warming creates ....

Seed Conditioning, Volume 3

Crop Seed Conditioning

Bill R Gregg and Gary L Billups

Solar Home Design Manual for Cool Climates

Shawna Henderson and Don Roscoe

This book simply and clearly explains the principles of using solar energy to heat a home. ....

Spatial Planning and Climate Change

Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper

Spatial planning and climate change are closely intertwined - the effects of irresponsible planning can negatively impact the changing environment, but also ....

Speaking for Ourselves

Environmental Justice in Canada

Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-Delay and Pat O'Riley

The concept of environmental justice has offered a new direction for social movements and public policy in recent decades, and researchers worldwide now position social ....

The State of Resistance

Popular Struggles in the Global South

Francois Polet

This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different countries or ....

Sustainability Unpacked

Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies

Kristina A Vogt, Toral Patel-Weynand, Maura Shelton et al

This book examines and decodes some of the basic elements of sustainability; food, water and energy. Current resource uses and human development strategies are discussed that ....

Sustainable Energy

Edited by Klaus Dieter John and Dirk TG Rubbelke

Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term ....

Sustainable Tourism in Rural Europe

Approaches to Development

Edited by Donald VL MacLeod and Steven A Gillespie

Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry. That said, it remains highly ....

Sustainable Value

How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good

Chris Laszlo

Using management fable, case studies and toolkit, Chris Laszlo shows how business can action `Sustainable Value'. ....

Transboundary Water Management

Principles and Practice

Edited by Anton Earle, Anders Jagerskog and Joakim Ojendal

This book brings together in a concise and accessible way all of the main topics to be considered when managing transboundary waters. ....

Water

The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Steven Solomon

This book offers a narrative portrait of the personalities, innovations and power struggles over water that have transformed human history from the irrigating ....

Water Policy in Texas

Responding to the Rise of Scarcity

Edited by Ronald C Griffin

As a water-scarce state with deep cultural attachments to private property rights, Texas has taken a unique evolutionary path with regard to water management. This new resource ....

Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean

Edited by Sergi Sabater and Damia Barcelo

Water scarcity affects hydrologic resources, systems connectivity, biodiversity, water quality, and river ecosystem functioning. It has direct impacts on economic sectors that ....

Water Technology

An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers

NF Gray

This text introduces the reader to the key concepts of water technology by explaining the fundamentals of hydrobiology, aquatic ecosystems, water treatment and supply and ....

World in Motion

The Globalization and the Environment Reader

Edited by Gary M Kroll and Richard H Robbins

This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse ....

Advanced Geoinformation Science

Edited by Chaowei Yang, David Wong, Qianjun Miao and Ruixin Yang

GeoInformation Science today encompasses more than just traditional technologies such as remote sensing, GIS, and supporting disciplines. As the science continues to become more ....

Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis

An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians

Ronald Christensen, Wesley O Johnson, Adam J Branscum and Timothy E Hanson

This book presents a collaborative approach to data analysis involving both scientists and statisticians that can be used to model unknown parameters using scientific ....

Bayesian Networks and GIS Techniques for Modelling Land Degradation

The Causality, Intensity and Extent

Oumer Ahmed

Electron Microprobe Analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy in Geology

SJB Reed

Now fully updated to cover recent developments, this book covers the closely related techniques of electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) ....

Generalized, Linear and Mixed Models

Charles E McCulloch and Shayle R Searle

A modern perspective on mixed models presenting a unified and accessible treatment of the newest statistical methods for analyzing correlated, nonnormally distributed data. A ....

Statistical Methods

Rudolph J Freund, William J Wilson and Donna Mohr

This volume forms a working introduction to statistical methods offering a wide range of applications that emphasize the quantitative skills useful across many academic ....

Using R for Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics

Ken Kleinman and Nick Horton

Organized by analytic task, this compendium provides a concise yet thorough overview of the use of R for data management, statistical analysis, and graphics. ....

Using SAS for Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics

Ken Kleinman and Nicholas J Horton

This book provides an overview of the use of SAS for data management, statistical analysis, and graphics. ....