Blue Planet: Seas of Life, Vol. 1 & 2
Extraordinary footage and eloquent narration by David Attenborough highlight the BBC’s remarkable wildlife series, The Blue Planet: Seas of Life.
Winged Migration
For earthbound humans, Winged Migration is as close as any of us will get to sharing the sky with our fine feathered friends. It’s as if French director Jacques Perrin and his international crew of dedicated filmmakers had been given a full-access pass by Mother Nature herself, with the complete “cooperation” of countless species of migrating birds, all answering to eons of migratory instinct.
Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches
Though it is not widely recognized, modern industrial agriculture plays a major role in the rampant decline in biodiversity in the United States. Habitat destruction and fragmentation, displacement of native species and the introduction of exotic species, persecution of predators, and pollution of all kinds are just a few of its damaging ecological consequences.
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management
The book presents methods and operational examples of forest change detection, forest defoliation monitoring, forest classification, and forest growth modeling.
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Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada?s record, focusing on laws and policies intended to protect water, air, land, and biodiversity.
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Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology
Complete with a glossary and suggestions for further reading, this outstanding collection of recently published and brand new articles serves as a comprehensive introduction and a very useful reference work to an important technology with worldwide social consequences.
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Confronting Consumption
Confronting Consumption places consumption at the center of debate by conceptualizing “”the consumption problem”” and documenting diverse efforts to confront it.
Thinking Ecologically: Environmental Thought, Values and Policy
Thinking Ecologically has two aims. The first is to describe the metaphysical, epistemological and valuational directions taken toward the environment in the history of Western thought. The second is to develop an approach to environmental thought based on the idea of attunement.
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Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities
A powerful and challenging book, Taking Stands provides a crucial understanding of community change in resource-dependent regions, and helps us to better tackle the complexities of gender and activism as they relate to rural sustainability. Social and environmental geographers, feminist scholars, and those engaged in rural studies, environmental sustainability, community planning, and policy making will find it invaluable.
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Forest Ecology: A Foundation for Sustainable Forest Management and Environmental Ethics in Forestry
This comprehensive textbook on ecosystem ecology is the only one on the market that covers the entire field, linking conventional ecosystem-level forest ecology to forest management.
Trees in Canada
Ten years in preparation, this is the most comprehensive book on the trees of Canada and the northern United States ever published. Trees In Canada is an essential tool for the amateur naturalist and forest science professional, landscape architect, student, or teacher, and a collectible for all those fascinated by trees and forests.
Inland Fisheries Management in North America
This revised edition updates a major college text and professional reference book. Authored by 42 eminent educators and fisheries managers, it reflects the rapid changes in managing inland fisheries since the first edition, especially in applying ecosystem approaches and adopting larger spatial scales for management.
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