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 places consumption at the center of debate by conceptualizing “”the consumption problem”” and documenting diverse efforts to confront it.
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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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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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.
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.
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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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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