Designed for beginning-level students who have not yet completed more technical coursework in math and science, this text introduces the breadth of the fisheries conservation and management process?rather than the depths and details of specific fisheries conservation and management settings. It provides a broad background?including basic information on fish, their habitats, and people who fish for them.
Essentials of Conservation Biology combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental economics, ethics, law, and the social sciences. This new edition stresses the need for theory, research, and an interdisciplinary approach in solving conservation problems.
Consisting of an assortment of landmark essays and the best in contemporary scholarship, this anthology delves deeply into the most pressing environmental issues of our times.
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This new practical guide provides a “”hands-on”” approach to learning the essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The fundamental knowledge gained will enable students to usefully address landscape-level ecological and management issues.
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The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) undertook the Environment and Sustainable Development Indicators (ESDI) Initiative to find ways to track the impact of current economic practices on the natural and human assets that will be needed by future generations of Canadians.
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This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada?s response to environmental challenges. Canadians, despite their national penchant for environmental discussion, have fallen behind their G-8 peers in both domestic commitments and international actions.
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The book ties together existing research into the interaction of chemicals, hormones and electromagnetic fields and provides a method for creating a home environment that supports our protective mechanisms. Worksheets help the average reader to identify the dangers in their homes, and understand how toxins get into our bodies, what they do when they get there, how our bodies try to protect us and how we can optimize that protection.
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Storm Warning illustrates the dire consequences of delay and inaction on both the personal and political fronts. In the climate change game the stakes are disturbingly high — with the very future of life on our planet at risk.
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Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of forests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans–the threats to our environment are numerous, raising justifiable concern among most of us and genuine alarm in some. But as scientist Daniel Botkin argues in this provocative book, our ability to solve these problems is limited–not by our scientific knowledge–but by the age-old myths and metaphors that shape our perception of the natural world. Indeed, our beliefs about nature have fallen well behind our knowledge.
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Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning. This volume fills that need.
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Conserving Living Natural Resources is an introductory textbook for students of conservation biology and resource management.
This collection provides a timely look at park management and planning in Canada by bringing together scholars from the fields of geography and recreation studies as well as officials in Canada’s public service and non-governmental organizations.
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