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Author : Harry F. Recher,Daniel Lunney,Irina Dunn
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000012704620
Author : Timothy J. Farnham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300120052
Biological diversity is considered one of today’s most urgent environmental concerns, yet the term was first coined only twenty-five years ago. Why did the concept of biological diversity so quickly capture public attention and emerge as a banner issue for the environmental movement? In this book, Timothy J. Farnham explores for the first time the historical roots of biological diversity, tracing the evolution of the term as well as the history of the conservation traditions that contributed to its rapid acceptance and popularity. Biological diversity is understood today as consisting of three components--species diversity, genetic diversity, and ecosystem diversity. Farnham finds that these three tiers coincided with three earlier, disparate conservation traditions that converged when the cause of preserving biological diversity was articulated. He tells the stories of these different historical foundations, recounts how the term came into the environmental lexicon, and shows how the evolution of the idea of biological diversity reflects an evolution of American attitudes toward the natural world.
Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781553655701
"Based on the lecture that David Suzuki gave in December 2009 and that forms the core of the 2010 film Force of nature"--Jacket.
Author : John B. Theberge
Publisher : McClelland and Stewart
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : CORNELL:31924052093105
Author : Peggy L. Fiedler,Susan Gee Rumsey,Kathleen Wong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520953642
The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the UC NRS has grown to encompass more than 750,000 wildland acres. This book tells the story of how a few forward-thinking UC faculty, who’d had their research plots and teaching spots destroyed by development and habitat degradation, devised a way to save representative examples of many of California’s major ecosystems. Working together with conservation-minded donors and landowners, with state and federal agencies, and with land trusts and private conservation organizations, they founded what would become the world’s largest university-administered natural reserve system—a legacy of lasting significance and utility. This lavishly illustrated volume, which includes images by famed photographers Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell, describes the natural and human histories of the system’s many reserves. Located throughout California, these wildland habitats range from coastal tide pools to inland deserts, from lush wetlands to ancient forests, and from vernal pools to oak savannas. By supporting teaching, research, and public service within such protected landscapes, the UC NRS contributes to the understanding and wise stewardship of the Earth.
Author : Peter Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135979775
This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can’t engage in useful discussion about the present concept of religion without a knowledge of the philosophical history that has shaped that concept. This is discussed with reference to the notion of natural religion to illustrate certain aspects of deism and its legacy. Originally published in 1989.
Author : Ian L. McHarg
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0613923332
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Author : Suzanne Methot
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773052960
Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others’ stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.
Author : Marisa O. Ensor
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527849
Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch abruptly and brutally altered the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath of the disaster a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root causes of the heightened vulnerability that characterized pre-Mitch Honduras, the impact of the catastrophe on the local society, and the subsequent recovery efforts. Edited by Marisa O. Ensor, this volume presents the findings of their investigation. The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch offers a comprehensive analysis of the immediate and long-term consequences of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork and environmental assessments, this volume illustrates the importance of adopting an approach to disaster research and practice that places ÒnaturalÓ trigger events within their political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts. The contributors make a compelling case against post-disaster recovery efforts that limit themselves to alleviating the symptoms, rather than confronting the root causes of the vulnerability that prefigured the disaster.
Author : Charles C. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D008652684
Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141994000
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.
Author : Nina Shoroplova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1772033030
An engaging, informative, and visually stunning tour of the numerous native, introduced, and ornamental tree species found in Vancouver's Stanley Park, combining a wealth of botanical knowledge with a fascinating social history of the city's most celebrated landmark. Measuring 405 hectares (1,001 acres) in the heart of downtown Vancouver, Stanley Park is home to more than 180,000 trees. Ranging from centuries-old Douglas firs to ornamental Japanese cherry trees, the trees of Stanley Park have come to symbolize the ancient roots and diverse nature of the city itself. For years, Nina Shoroplova has wandered through Vancouver's urban forest and marvelled at the multitude of tree species that flourish there. In Legacy of Trees, Shoroplova tours Stanley Park's seawall and beaches, wetlands and trails, pathways and lawns in every season and every type of weather, revealing the history and botanical properties of each tree species. Unlike many urban parks, which are entirely cultivated, the area now called Stanley Park was an ancient forest before Canada's third-largest city grew around it. Tracing the park's Indigenous roots through its colonial history to its present incarnation as the jewel of Vancouver, visited by eight million locals and tourists annually, Legacy of Treesis a beautiful tribute to the trees that shape Stanley Park's evolving narrative.
Author : Reed F. Noss,Allen Cooperrider,Rodger Defenders of Wildlife
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1559632488
Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land management and conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United States, with the authors succinctly translating principles, techniques, and findings of the ecological sciences into an accessible and practical plan for action. After laying the groundwork for biodiversity conservation -- what biodiversity is, why it is important, its status in North America -- Noss and Cooperrider consider the strengths and limitations of past and current approaches to land management. They then present the framework for a bold new strategy, with explicit guidelines on: inventorying biodiversity selecting areas for protection designing regional and continental reserve networks establishing monitoring programs setting priorities for getting the job done Throughout the volume, the authors provide in-depth assessments of what must be done to protect and restore the full spectrum of native biodiversity to the North American continent.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : PSU:000043064809
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843690624
