Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts
ISBN: 9780520247048 / Angielski / Twarda / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (18971948) has reached legendary status in the California mythos. A true polymath and a thinker ahead of his time, Ricketts was a scientist who worked in passionate collaboration with many of his friendsartists, writers, and influential intellectual figuresincluding, perhaps most famously, John Steinbeck, who once said that Ricketts's mind had no horizons. This unprecedented collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the first time in their original...
Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (18971948) has reached legendary status in the ...
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378,71 zł |
Antarctica: The Next Decade: Report of a Group Study Chaired by Sir Anthony Parsons
ISBN: 9780521331814 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Antarctic Treaty, set up in 1961 to provide a means for managing international relations in Antarctica, will be reviewed in 1991. The book considers the question of the region's future with the ever growing international interest in the area as a source of important mineral resources. In this timely survey, a study group, brought together by the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, looks at the political and environmental questions raised by the potentially conflicting interests in the Antarctic. What are the stresses, internal and external, on the Antarctic Treaty...
The Antarctic Treaty, set up in 1961 to provide a means for managing international relations in Antarctica, will be reviewed in 1991. The book conside...
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506,73 zł |
Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions
ISBN: 9780521360401 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mediterranean basin, California, Chile, the western Cape of South Africa, and southern Australia share a Mediterranean climate characterized by cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers. These five regions have differing patterns of human settlement, but similarities in natural vegetation and some faunal assemblages. These likenesses are enhanced with time by an increasing level of biotic exchange among the regions. An initiative of a subcommittee of SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), which realized that the integrity of many natural ecosystems is being threatened...
The Mediterranean basin, California, Chile, the western Cape of South Africa, and southern Australia share a Mediterranean climate characterized by co...
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613,15 zł |
Chemical Ecology of Vertebrates
ISBN: 9780521363778 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing exclusively on the chemically mediated interactions between vertebrates, including humans and other animals and plants, this monograph combines information from widely scattered technical literature in different disciplines. It will be an indispensable reference for undergraduates, graduate students and researchers interested in how chemical signals are used for inter- and intra-specific communication in vertebrates.
Focusing exclusively on the chemically mediated interactions between vertebrates, including humans and other animals and plants, this monograph combin...
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673,95 zł |
Water Science Reviews 4: Volume 4: Hydration Phenomena in Colloidal Systems
ISBN: 9780521365789 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fourth volume of Water Science Reviews presents three fascinating accounts of hydration phenomena in colloidal systems. O.F. Evans and David Miller provide a reappraisal of the role of water in promoting amphiphilic assembly and structure. Donald England's review of water-soluble polymers highlights those areas that show unique solution properties or where there is contention as to the explanation for the behavior. The final review by Kenneth Newman addresses the hydration of surfaces, a topic of profound scientific and technological importance. Post-graduate researchers interested in...
The fourth volume of Water Science Reviews presents three fascinating accounts of hydration phenomena in colloidal systems. O.F. Evans and David Mille...
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506,73 zł |
Ecological Versatility and Community Ecology
ISBN: 9780521405539 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are mounting concerns that the management of our natural global heritage is failing to arrest the rapid extinction of enormous numbers of "specialized" species, especially in the tropics. This book is about specialization and generalization in the use of resources and habitats. The author employs a broad ecological perspective to address three main questions: how ecologists study variation in resource and habitat use and what we learn from these studies; how well existing theory accounts for observations and what the common threads among disciplines are; and finally, what the...
There are mounting concerns that the management of our natural global heritage is failing to arrest the rapid extinction of enormous numbers of "speci...
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724,63 zł |
Dealing in Diversity: America's Market for Nature Conservation
ISBN: 9780521465670 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With sixty percent of the land in the United States under private ownership, the role of the private sector in the conservation of habitat and species diversity is increasingly important. This book examines the "market" for conservation of natural areas in the U.S., considering the efforts of both profit- and nonprofit-making ventures. It discusses the costs and benefits of protecting natural areas and uses specific examples of landowners and agencies involved in private sector conservation. The book concludes by discussing the potential and limitations of the private conservation market, and...
With sixty percent of the land in the United States under private ownership, the role of the private sector in the conservation of habitat and species...
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506,73 zł |
Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects
ISBN: 9780521696197 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years climate change has become recognized as the foremost environmental problem of the twenty-first century. Not only will climate change potentially affect the multi-billion dollar energy strategies of countries worldwide, but it also could seriously affect many species, including our own. A fascinating introduction to the subject, this textbook provides a broad review of past, present and likely future climate change from the viewpoints of biology, ecology and human ecology. It will be of interest to a wide range of people, from students in the life sciences who need a brief...
In recent years climate change has become recognized as the foremost environmental problem of the twenty-first century. Not only will climate change p...
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293,85 zł |
Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters
ISBN: 9780521771573 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect, and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. The procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic, and the statistical models needed to analyse complex data are given. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols which can be applied in any region of the world, a wide range of human impacts, and any ecosystem. In addition, real examples are used to show how the theory can be put into practice.
Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect, and allow management of human...
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613,15 zł |
Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780521774376 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are there geographic clusters of disease cases, or hotspots of crime? Can the geography of air quality be matched to where people hospitalized for respiratory complaints actually live? Spatial data is data about the world where the attribute of interest and its location on the earth's surface are recorded. This comprehensive overview of the subject shows how the above questions can be tackled. It is written for students and researchers in geography, economics, social science, the environmental sciences and statistics.
Are there geographic clusters of disease cases, or hotspots of crime? Can the geography of air quality be matched to where people hospitalized for res...
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369,86 zł |
Ecology of Arctic Environments: 13th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society
ISBN: 9780521839983 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book ends with four chapters concentrating on man's impacts on the Arctic environment.
The book ends with four chapters concentrating on man's impacts on the Arctic environment.
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390,18 zł |
Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management: Understanding System Complexity
ISBN: 9780521858830 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was first published in 2006. Despite many well-intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources continue to decline. The roles and interplay between science and policy in the regional broadacre agriculture landscape are examined here, offering readers a thorough understanding of the complex interactions that occur across spatial scales to produce the regional-scale impacts. The fundamental causes of resource degradation, social decline and environmental pollution are addressed, examining the cross-scale drivers from the individual farm level to...
This book was first published in 2006. Despite many well-intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources conti...
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445,92 zł |
Systematic Conservation Planning
ISBN: 9780521878753 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Systematic Conservation Planning provides a clear, comprehensive guide to the process of deriving a conservation area network for regions, which will best represent the biodiversity of regions in the most cost-effective way. The measurement of biodiversity, design of field sampling strategies, alongside different data treatment methods are detailed helping to provide a conceptual framework for identifying conservation area networks, underpinned by the concept of complementarity. Setting conservation targets and then multi-criteria analyses, using complementarity but bringing in other criteria...
Systematic Conservation Planning provides a clear, comprehensive guide to the process of deriving a conservation area network for regions, which will ...
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476,32 zł |
Rumors of Spring
ISBN: 9780553343694 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An astonishing odyssey is about to begin. Gone are the wild grasses and rolling meadows. Gone too are the towering trees--except in one last forest in a forgotten corner of the world. Until something totally unexpected, remarkable, and frightening happens: The forest begins to grow. And grow. And grow. Mother Nature is back with a vengeance and mankind's very survival is at stake. Now a crusade of unlikely allies is venturing boldly into the heart of this dark and majestic world to learn its awesome secret--only to make the most breathtaking discovery of all. A shimmering...
An astonishing odyssey is about to begin. Gone are the wild grasses and rolling meadows. Gone too are the towering trees--except in one la...
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107,36 zł |
Hispaniola: A Photographic Journey Through Island Biodiversity, Biodiversidad a Través de Un Recorrido Fotográfico
ISBN: 9780674026285 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First, there is a soft rustle in the underbrush, then a low-slung, utterly bizarre-looking insectivore dashes in front of Eladio Fernandez. With a reflexive click of digital shutter, he's captured the reclusive ("Solenodon paradoxus"--a living fossil. A Dominican-based conservationist and photographer, Fernandez is documenting the efforts of a distinguished team of international scientists as they unravel the workings of evolution being played out on the island of Hispaniola. A short flight from the Florida coast, Hispaniola offers unique opportunities, not just to photographers like... First, there is a soft rustle in the underbrush, then a low-slung, utterly bizarre-looking insectivore dashes in front of Eladio Fernandez. With a... |
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271,77 zł |
Thieves Deceivers and Killers: Tales of Chemistry in Nature
ISBN: 9780691092737 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tobacco plant synthesizes nicotine to protect itself from herbivores. The female moth broadcasts sex pheromones to attract a mate, while a soldier ant deploys an alarm pheromone to call for help. The carbon dioxide on a mammal's breath beckons hungry ticks and mosquitoes, while a flower's fragrance speaks to the honey bee. Indeed, much of the communication that occurs within and between various species of organisms is done not by sight, sound, or touch, but with chemicals. From mating to parenting, foraging to self-defense, plant and animal activities are accomplished largely by the... The tobacco plant synthesizes nicotine to protect itself from herbivores. The female moth broadcasts sex pheromones to attract a mate, while a sold... |
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186,69 zł |
Hold Your Water: 68 Things You Need to Know to Keep Our Planet Blue
ISBN: 9780740756825 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hold Your Water offers insight into the water and world around us. Taking a conversational approach to conservation, it dives into simple ways that even little old you can make a difference--all with a witty, and at times whimsical, slant on the world in which we live.
The Wyland Foundation is widely lauded by politicians and scientists alike for its practical insight and positive impact on our planet. Former Vice President Al Gore praised the group, saying, -Your organization makes an invaluable contribution to the effort to promote environmental awareness.- Hold Your... Hold Your Water offers insight into the water and world around us. Taking a conversational approach to conservation, it dives into simple ways ...
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60,08 zł |
Environmental Risks: Perception, Evaluation and Management
ISBN: 9780762308064 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental risks are among the most serious challenges of today's societies. Virtually all environmental risks are anthropogenic. The consequences of past decisions made by individuals, business, and governments have already devastated many of the earth's ecological systems and there is an ongoing discussion about the potential effects of environmental change and whether the earth will still provide a livable environment for future generations. environmental issues. However, this literature has been dominated by the natural sciences and research focuses on obtaining more accurate...
Environmental risks are among the most serious challenges of today's societies. Virtually all environmental risks are anthropogenic. The consequences ...
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554,68 zł |
Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World
ISBN: 9780762737482 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than two years, a team of Newsday reporters and photographers explored the woods and waters of a world most visitors to Long Island never see. As they waded through bogs, kayaked on the island's four rivers, hiked through pathless forests, and ventured into the Atlantic in shark cages, they made surprising discoveries: insect-eating plants, tropical fish, exotic lizards, birds of prey nesting along golf courses, and much more. Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World is the result--a colorful and authoritative guide to the natural environment of Long Island. Taking full...
For more than two years, a team of Newsday reporters and photographers explored the woods and waters of a world most visitors to Long Island never see...
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72,80 zł |
Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780765605122 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving beyond traditional cultural and disciplinary boundaries, social scientists, humanists, natural scientists, and public servants examine the different ways in which people understand and inhabit their environments in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and throughout Asia. Utilizing ethnographic and historical case studies; textual, cartographic, and narrative analysis; and critical examinations of discourse and methods, these essays broaden our understanding of human/environmental interactions, and prompt more realistic assessments and effective action.
Moving beyond traditional cultural and disciplinary boundaries, social scientists, humanists, natural scientists, and public servants examine the diff...
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187,44 zł |