Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Ecosystems & Habitats - General

ENG:The project of repairing and healing a damaged earth has a long and fascinating past. Natural resource managers today call this pursuit restoration, renaturing or perhaps rewilding, but its main activities have taken many forms over the last century. The reader joins the great environmental thinker, George Perkins Marsh, to travel between North America and Europe for discovering many ways of undoing environmental wrongs. Russian readers will appreciate that Marsh’s greatest insight— that “man is everywhere a disturbing agent” — appeared in his Человек и природа...

Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive book that would raise awareness of coral reefs and their plight. Tunnell and coeditors Ernesto A. Chavez and Kim Withers present an integrated and broad-ranging synthesis, while Mexican and U.S. experts assess the current state of these fragile systems and offer a framework for their restoration.
Beginning with a history of the research done in this region, Coral Reefs of the Southern...