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A Fishery Manager's Guidebook
Wiley 2009; US$ 239.95Co-published with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Fisheries management is the process that has evolved to try to ensure that fisheries operate in a manner that provides the immediate benefits in a sustainable manner. The widely accepted goal is that the full range of benefits should not only be available for this generation... more...
America's Natural Places: Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 91.00America's Natural Places: Rocky Mountains and Great Plains examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume,... more...
America's Natural Places: South and Southeast
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 91.00America's Natural Places: South and Southeast examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume, this book informs... more...
America's Natural Places: Pacific and West
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 91.00America's Natural Places: Pacific and West examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume, this work informs... more...
Agricultural Drainage and Water Quality
GeneTech Books 2007; US$ 50.00Agricultural drainage is the removal of excess water from the soil surface and/or soil profile of cropland, by either gravity or artificial means. The two main reasons for improving the drainage on agricultural land are for soil conservation and enhancing crop production. The management goal of agricultural drainage is to maintain a salt balance in... more...
The Science of Sustainable Development
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 52.00Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book investigates these challenges and calls for a restructuring of our present arrangements to achieve truly integrated natural resource management that embraces a range of scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types. more...
Biological Diversity
CRC Press 2001; US$ 119.95This text addresses the problem of how to balance local, national, and global interests in preserving the earth's biological diversity with competing interests in the use and exploitation of these natural resources. more...
Conflicts over Natural Resources
ABC-CLIO 2007; US$ 55.00Conflicts over natural resources are not new. But they are now worldwide, enduring, increasingly contentious, and in some cases, intractable. In this new book, political scientist Jacqueline Vaughn explores conflicts over natural resourcesÑboth renewable and nonrenewableÑin the United States and from a worldwide perspective.||Conflicts over Natural... more...
Celebrity and the Environment
Zed Books 2009; US$ 26.95The battle to save the world is being joined by a powerful new group of warriors. Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this timely and essential book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity... more...
America's Natural Places
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 85.00America's Natural Places: The Midwest examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume, this work informs readers... more...









