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Making Parks Work

• Paperback | Engels
• Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biod... Lees meer

Triumph of the Mundane

Hal M Kane

• Hardcover | Engels
• The desire for greater creature comforts and material success has come to dominate the goals and values of most Americans - in the pithy language of t... Lees meer

Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration

• Hardcover | Engels | Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration
• Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration presents case studies of five of the most noteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapea... Lees meer

Metrogreen

Donna Erickson

• Hardcover | Engels
• In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city res... Lees meer

The Cougar Conundrum

Mark Elbroch

• Paperback | Engels
• The relationship between humans and mountain lions has always been uneasy. A century ago, mountain lions were vilified as a threat to livestock and hu... Lees meer

Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles, Volume 61

• Hardcover | Engels | Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (Scope) | nr. 61
• A scientific assessment of element interactions in the biosphere providing an up-to-date review of biogeochemistry and its effects on Earth's systems.... Lees meer

Old Growth in a New World

• Paperback | Engels
• Old-growth forests represent a lofty ideal as much as an ecosystem--an icon of unspoiled nature, ecological stability, and pristine habitat. These ico... Lees meer

The Grand Food Bargain

Kevin D Walker

• Hardcover | Engels
• When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products.... Lees meer

Farming with Nature

• Hardcover | Engels
• A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ec... Lees meer

Chasing the Red Queen

Andy Dyer

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the race to feed the world's seven billion people, we are at a standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly potent and sophist... Lees meer

A Survey of Ecological Economics, Volume 1

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontier Issues in Economic Thought | nr. 1
• The emergent discipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world's economies are a function of the Earth's ecosystems - an idea tha... Lees meer

Safe Passages

• Hardcover | Engels
• Safe Passages brings together in a single volume the latest information on the emerging science of road ecology as it relates to mitigating interactio... Lees meer

Cities for Life

Jason Corburn

• Paperback | Engels
• Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Place Book Award Winner (2022) What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health ... Lees meer

The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration
• The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook is a hands-on manual that provides a detailed account of what has been learned about the art and science of prairie... Lees meer

Planning for a New Century

• Paperback | Engels
• Across the United States, issues such as sustainability, smart growth, and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings... Lees meer

Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities

Patrick M Condon

• Paperback | Engels
• How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosph... Lees meer

Floodplain Management

Bob Freitag, Susan Bolton, Frank Westerlund, Julie Clark

• Paperback | Engels
• A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans h... Lees meer

Better Environmental Policy Studies

Lawrence Susskind, Ravi K Jain, Andrew O Martyniuk

• Hardcover | Engels
• Environmental policy studies commissioned by government agencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they pro... Lees meer

Shaping National Responses to Climate Change

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Shaping National Responses to Climate Change" explores methods of designing, implementing, and gaining political support -- both domestically and int... Lees meer

The Agile City

James S Russell

• Hardcover | Engels
• In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental que... Lees meer

Transportation & Sustainable Campus Communities

Will Toor, Spenser Havlick

• Hardcover | Engels
• Colleges and universities across North America are facing difficult questions about automobile use and transportation. Lack of land for new parking lo... Lees meer

Thicker Than Water

Erica Cirino

• Hardcover | Engels
• Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made u... Lees meer

Holistic Management Handbook, Third Edition

Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

• Paperback | Engels
• Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach developed by biologist Allan Savory to restore the world's grassland soils and minimize the damagin... Lees meer

The 1991-1992 Green Index

Bob Hall, Mary Lee Kerr

• Paperback | Engels
• The 1991-1992 Green Index presents a complete report card on the environment of all 50 states. Lees meer