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This compilation of essays examines the challenges that Yellowstone National Park's ecology faces in the 20th and 21st centuries. The essays identify and discuss ways to confront three main challenges to the park: invasive species, private-sector development of unprotected lands…
"Serengeti IV explores the role of our species as a source of both discord and balance in Serengeti ecosystem dynamics. Through chapters charting the complexities of infectious disease transmission across populations, agricultural expansion, and the many challenges of managing t…
"Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic approaches to sustainability education. Too often, students graduate with exploitative, consumer-driven orientations toward ecosystems…
"The conservation of biodiversity is one of the most important issues facing the world today. In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new coauthor James Gibbs offer a thorough introducing to the fascinating and important field of conservation biolog…
This text aims to engage students in active problem-solving using the detailed landscape scenarios that face the modern resource manager and scientist. It emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions.
The ecosystem approach embodies a concept of the environment which emphasizes the integrated components of nature as complex adaptive systems. This book examines the relationship between the architecture and design of environmental law and the implementation of the ecosystem app…
"As part of the Environmental and Ecological Modeling Handbooks series, the Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management provides a comprehensive overview of ecosystem theory and the tools - ecological engineering, ecological modeling, ecotoxicology and ecological economics -to…
Prologue: Past as precursor of future -- Part One. Natural phase: The Himalayan memoir -- Tectonic serendipity -- International biological highway -- The flux of life -- Part Two. Cultural phase: The first axe -- The Chipko saga -- Part Three. Mechanical phase: The first train t…
Life in the Himalaya explores the interconnectedness between geophysical and biological components of the mountain and its relation to the sustainability of human activities in the region. At the end of glacial age, the Himalayan landscape was significantly transformed by humans…