Nature

A comprehensive illustrated field guide to the birds of Greater Southern Africa The vast region of Greater Southern Africa?which includes Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe?is home to a truly...

A color-coded guide to creating better horse-human interactions and reducing mental, emotional, and physical stress in the horse. Renowned wild horse ecologist Mary Ann Simonds provides a soup-to-nuts manual for stress-reduction in performance horses...

A powerful photographic journey that celebrates the healing power of birds. Melissa Hafting is an ethical, passionate, and respected birder, photographer, and mentor. Her love for birding has helped shape who she is and has helped with her mental health,...

This book will help the general reader understand sustainability and the role of culture in making our world sustainable. At the beginning, it distinguishes between sustainable development, which focuses on growth to meet human needs, and sustainability,...

Aligning discourses surrounding hegemonic colonial visions of the environment and disability, this volume illustrates the ways in which colonial understandings of disability were and continue to be defined by relationships with the environment,...

The anthropogenic impact on the environment has led to devastating consequences and irreversible damage to both humans and nonhumans. Environmentalists warn that the damage incurred so far threatens to intensify further due to the lack of adequate...

Natural resources are materials and components (something that can be used) that can be found within the environment. It occurs naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by humanity, in a natural form. It can be thought of as...

Many people in the Niger Delta may not have heard of the term ?environmental injustice? before, but it is just a new word for an old problem. Environmental justice is based on the principle that all people have a right to be protected from environmental...

From heat waves and wildfires to flooding and record droughts, the impacts of climate change are now obvious. While the primary cause is the rise in greenhouse gases mainly from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum, the complete story...

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.Author: Brian G HenningPublisher: State University of New York PressPublication Date: Jun 02, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.Author: Arianne Françoise ContyPublisher: State University of...

Green Production. Nachhaltigkeit und Medien : Ein theoretischer Blick auf die Nachhaltigkeit in der deutschen MedienbrancheAuthor: Gina-Marie MüllerPublisher: GRIN VerlagPublication Date: May 24, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: GermanBinding:...

By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an era of natural disasters. Between the late seventeenth and the...

¿Sabías que el 10 de octubre de 2024, el mundo celebra el papel de las etiquetas ecológicas en la construcción de una economía global verde? El libro presenta un proyecto para implementar una ecoetiqueta regional en la provincia de Córdoba como parte de...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press?s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This is the first book devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged...

The definitive comprehensive photographic field guide to the larger mammals of continental South America South America?s wide range of habitats support a tremendous diversity of plants and animals, including more than 400 species of larger mammals?those...

A searingly beautiful tribute to wild Mustang family groups that have been reunited after suffering roundup and separation in the American West. In 1971, the US Congress passed an act that declared wild horses and burros as "living symbols of the...

Comprehensive, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, this is an essential and timely guide to the world's key plant and fungus species. Written by specialists, Plants and Fungi is a botanical exploration of the world's most fascinating plant and fungus...

Folklore & Zoology accessibly reviews the science of DNA samples; film and photograph analysis; hair and footprint examination; and the statistics behind alleged animals as Sasquatch and the Yeti, Nessie and Champ, the Griffin and the Thunderbirds, and...

This wonderful book is more than a celebration of place; it is a tribute to the power of nature and art to help us process our grief. Carol Cox is the real deal. John Moran, author of Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer...

Did you know that the mosquito played an important role in the Louisiana Purchase? Or that dung beetles saved the cattle industry in Australia? That honeybees pollinate about one third of the food we eat? Or that the deadliest animal on earth is an...

Case Study from the year 2022 in the subject Environmental Sciences - Sustainability, language: English, abstract: Sustainable fishing in the Pacific Island nations is faced with a big problem because of illegal fishing and overfishing. The small island...

Urban wildlife management is a town planning subject. It is logical and important to relate the animal and human conflict seen all over the world, as a phenomenon which is applicable to all types of human settlements, despite the diversities and...

In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.Author: Donald R. ProtheroPublisher:...

Heavy Metal: Earth's Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world. Minerals and metals - for batteries,...

Mémoire (de fin d'études) de l'année 2023 dans le domaine Sciences de l'Environnement - Protection du climat et de l'environnement, note: Sociologue, University of Kisangani (Faculté de Sciences Sociales Administratives et Politiques), cours: Sociologie,...

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable...

Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the degree to which its scope of possibilities and its premise are characterized by global existential risks...

The pursuit of wilderness preservation is at odds with a commitment to animal welfare. Wilderness, Morality, and Value charts a way forward by clarifying the meaning of wilderness, investigating the fundamental value of wilderness itself, and exploring...

In this book, Carolyn K. Lesorogol examines community-based wildlife conservation in Kenya and its complex effects on local communities. Lesorogol argues that this approach to conservation creates new land use institutions, brings both benefits and costs...