"The human condition is composed of culturally mediated biology, and this inherently dual nature is key to our understanding of human/environment interaction. Human Ecology provides a fresh view on the interrelationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes. …
Provides extensive information on natural disturbance ecology, spatial patterns in forested landscapes, connectivity, riparian areas and wetlands, interior habitat, biodiversity and old growth forests, the dead wood cycle, and edge effects for land management practitioners.
This book describes the ecological principles, policies, and practices required to create a sustainable future. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives.
During the last decade, the market environmentalist policy model of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) has become a widely promoted and implemented conservation and development tool, around the world as well as in the Andean countries Colombia and Ecuador. For upstream pea…
During the last decade, the market environmentalist policy model of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) has become a widely promoted and implemented conservation and development tool, around the world as well as in the Andean countries Colombia and Ecuador. For upstream pea…
The purpose of this study is to determine the elements and preconditions necessary for a viable, adaptive water compact particularly with climate change. Legal and scientific scholars generally agree interstate water compacts are the solution to transboundary water resource gove…
This book elaborates a perspective that can be used to democratize, decentralize, and privatize irrigation organizations. It uses case examples to illustrate the interrelationships between project performance, irrigation organization, and farmer participation.
While landscaping has the potential to be part of the solution to certain environmental problems, the quest for beauty can also produce effects that are harmful to the environment. 'Sustainable Landscaping: Principles and Practices' examines landscape practices that adversely a…
"Cork oak has historically been an important species in the western Mediterranean-ecologically as a canopy or "framework" tree in natural woodlands, and culturally as an economically valuable resource that underpins local economies. Both the natural woodlands and the derived cul…
