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Invasive Alien Plants: An Ecological Appraisal for the Indian Subcontinent
ISBN: 9781845939076 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems throughout the world. In India, a country with three of the world's most important -biodiversity hotspots-, the invasion of alien plants means risking a national ecological disaster with major social and economic consequences. Currently there is insufficient information about invasive alien plants; their distribution, rate of spread and adaptability to new environments. This book reveals existing and potential invaders, evaluates the level of risk they pose to native species and suggests steps to manage spread and limit...
Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems throughout the world. In India, a country with three of the world's most impo...
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Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth
ISBN: 9780292708068 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to maintain the ecological health of the earth. At the same time, however, the pressure to develop wildlife habitat for human settlement and economic gain also grows, causing frequent clashes between the forces of development and of conservation. This pioneering study focuses on a new tool for resolving the land-use conflict--the creation of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Timothy Beatley explores the development and early results of this... As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to ... |
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The Amateur Naturalist (and Exotic Petkeeper) #9
ISBN: 9781905723638 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 100 years, from the mid-19th Century, natural history was the premier British hobby. Over the last 50 years it has declined in popularity for a number of reasons, most notably that killing living creatures for a hobby is quite rightly no longer seen as ethical. With the technological advances of the 21st Century, however, everything has changed. With a digital camera one can have a butterfly collection for example, and with the advent of cheap air travel, places once only accessible by the Gerald Durrells of this world, can be visited by everybody. Suddenly, the amateur naturalist can...
For 100 years, from the mid-19th Century, natural history was the premier British hobby. Over the last 50 years it has declined in popularity for a nu...
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47,85 |
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Elephants & Whales: Resources for Whom?
ISBN: 9782884490108 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines issues surrounding the management and conservation of a particular category of animal, namely the mediagenic megafauna, or the largest of the land and sea mammals. The value accorded to different biotic resources varies significantly depending upon the interests and goals of the parties undertaking the valuation, and these different perceptions often come to influence management of these species. Discussion and programmes directed toward saving elephants and whales are particularly instructive in this regard, as these species appeal to diverse groups for markedly different...
This text examines issues surrounding the management and conservation of a particular category of animal, namely the mediagenic megafauna, or the larg...
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286,57 |
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Ecosystem Planning in Florida: Solving Regional Problems through Local Decision-making
ISBN: 9780754672494 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While ecosystem management requires looking beyond specific jurisdiction and focusing on broad spatial scales, most planning decisions particularly in the USA, are made at local level. By looking at land-use planning in Florida, this volume recognizes the need for planners and resource managers to address ecosystem problems at local and community levels. The factors causing ecosystem decline, such as rapid urban development and habitat fragmentation occur at the local level and are generated by local land use policies. This book argues that understanding how local jurisdictions can capture...
While ecosystem management requires looking beyond specific jurisdiction and focusing on broad spatial scales, most planning decisions particularly in...
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Governing Agrobiodiversity: Plant Genetics and Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780754647416 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Plant genetic diversity is crucial to the breeding of food crops and is therefore a central precondition for food security. Diverse genetic resources provide the genetic traits required to deal with crop pests and diseases, as well as changing climate conditions. Plant genetic diversity is also essential for traditional small-scale farming, and is therefore an indispensable factor in the fight against poverty. However, the diversity of domesticated plant varieties is disappearing at an alarming rate while interest in the commercial use of genetic resources has increased in line with...
Plant genetic diversity is crucial to the breeding of food crops and is therefore a central precondition for food security. Diverse genetic resources ...
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704,38 |
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The International Politics of Bird Conservation
ISBN: 9781845424039 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boardman assesses international cooperation on migratory and endangered birds in different regions of the world. He illustrates that although birds are protected in international treaties, by national legislation and through the projects of non-governmental organisation - the threats to many species have mounted.
Boardman assesses international cooperation on migratory and endangered birds in different regions of the world. He illustrates that although birds ar...
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557,37 |
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The Economics of Conserving Wildlife and Natural Areas
ISBN: 9781840648119 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of papers applying general economic principles to the conservation of wildlife and natural areas, and outlining consequential policy issues. Particular consideration is given to open-access situations, property rights in wildlife areas and to the total evaluation of species.
A collection of papers applying general economic principles to the conservation of wildlife and natural areas, and outlining consequential policy issu...
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598,28 |
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Ecosystems and Nature: Economics, Science and Policy
ISBN: 9781858987934 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text aims to provide a perspective on the major issues in biodiversity, including economics, natural science, management and ethics. As well examining basic science and economics, it also focuses on the difficult ethical issues which surround the utilization and conservation of biodiversity.
This text aims to provide a perspective on the major issues in biodiversity, including economics, natural science, management and ethics. As well exam...
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Governing Global Biodiversity: The Evolution and Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
ISBN: 9780754617440 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Predictions about the success of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are pessimistic. It has now become commonplace to bemoan the scope, ambition, and deeply political nature of a convention that addresses issues ranging from ecosystems protection to the exploitation of genetic resources, from conservation to justice, and from commerce to scientific knowledge. Ten years after its adoption, how can we assess the difference that the CBD has made? Is it in danger of collapsing under its own weight or is it building the foundations of new patterns of relations between societies and...
Predictions about the success of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are pessimistic. It has now become commonplace to bemoan the scope, ambi...
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Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainable Development: Principles and Practices with Asian Examples
ISBN: 9781858987354 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particular emphasis on biological diversity and examines possible policies for resolving conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of conserving the natural environment and economic growth.
This text highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particu...
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Institutional Economics and Fisheries Management: The Case of Pacific Tuna
ISBN: 9781843767824 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Petersen argues that economists and other social scientists are increasingly focusing their attention towards institutions (defined as humanly-devised rules) as critical determinants of economic, social and political growth and development. Institutions responsible for the governance of fishery resources have experienced dramatic reforms over the last few decades, stimulated by increased competition for access and exploitation of resources, leading to emerging scarcity of these very resources. This book aims to contribute to the biological and economic sustainability of fish...
Elizabeth Petersen argues that economists and other social scientists are increasingly focusing their attention towards institutions (defined as human...
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496,01 |
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Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan
ISBN: 9781843768104 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China and Taiwan have roughly one-eighth of the world's known species. Their approaches to biodiversity issues thus have global as well as national repercussions. Gerald McBeath and Tse-Kang Leng explore the ongoing conflicts between economic development, typically pursued by businesses and governments, and communities seeking to preserve and protect local human and ecosystem values.
China and Taiwan have roughly one-eighth of the world's known species. Their approaches to biodiversity issues thus have global as well as national re...
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521,58 |
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Unveiling the Whale: Discourses on Whales and Whaling
ISBN: 9780857451583 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kalland's direct approach is to be commended as well as the accessibility of the book (blessedly free of jargonized language), and for creating new avenues for further research into the attribution of values and anti-values to highly contentious environmental discourses. Durham Anthropology Journal
Kalland's deconstruction of the 'Superwhale' as an environmentalist symbol and magnet for New Age belief systems is a very accessible and engaging example of discourse analysis. Many readers will find it a bit unsettling to recognize their own unexamined pro-whale, anti-whaling... Kalland's direct approach is to be commended as well as the accessibility of the book (blessedly free of jargonized language), and for creating new...
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The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity: Methods and Policy Applications
ISBN: 9781843762706 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The loss of biodiversity has put increasing pressure on the stability and continuity of ecosystems, and their ability to provide goods and services to mankind. This book addresses this issue and presents an integrated ecological-economic perspective on the analysis of biodiversity loss and conservation. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach and attempts both to provide a definition of biodiversity benefits as well as investigate alternative perspectives on biodiversity. The book also presents a classification of biodiversity values and effectively illustrates which economic valuation methods...
The loss of biodiversity has put increasing pressure on the stability and continuity of ecosystems, and their ability to provide goods and services to...
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496,01 |
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Bird Conservation: No. 2
ISBN: 9780299102241 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Battling the Hydra: Encounter with (mostly) wild animals
ISBN: 9781468120103 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book stories about nature and encounters with (mostly) wild animals. There are stories about bears, badgers, bats, and burros. Included are tales about tarantulas, tortoises, turkeys, and tigers of the saber toothed variety. Described with prose, poetry and photgraphy Battling the Hydra has adventures involving wrestling snakes, mountain lion sunrises, eagles over Puget Sound, a den of baby snakes hatching in Nevada, and orcas in Alaska. There is the hilarous but hard to believe story about the cross eyed sheep of Montana. Listen to the author describe his attempt at becoming a...
This is a book stories about nature and encounters with (mostly) wild animals. There are stories about bears, badgers, bats, and burros. Included are ...
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Biofuel Use in the U.S.: Impact & Challenges
ISBN: 9781621004417 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achieving greater energy security by reducing dependence on foreign petroleum is a goal of U.S. energy policy. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) calls for a Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS-2), which mandates that the United States increase the volume of biofuel that is blended into transportation fuel from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion gallons by 2022. Long-term technological advances are needed to meet this mandate. This book examines how meeting the RFS-2 would affect various key components of the U.S. economy. If biofuel production advances with cost-reducing...
Achieving greater energy security by reducing dependence on foreign petroleum is a goal of U.S. energy policy. The Energy Independence and Security Ac...
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Harvesting the Seas: Excess Capacity in U.S. Fisheries
ISBN: 9781613247310 / Angielski / Twarda / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted an assessment in response to national and international concerns that overcapacity, overfishing and other often co-occurring undesirable outcomes of a common management problem prevent the attainment of the goal of productive and sustainable marine ecosystems. Other undesirable outcomes include high levels of bycatch, adverse impacts on habitat, less safe working conditions on fishing vessels, lower product quality, poor economic performance, less viable fishing communities, non-compliance with regulations and a...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted an assessment in response to national and international concerns that overcap...
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Wildlife the South African Way
ISBN: 9781483682662 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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167,58 |
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