Type of content: Books
Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Today's natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Global Integrity Project has brought together leading scientists and thinkers from around the world to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal human well-being, degradation of the ecosphere, and unsustainable economies.
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Amid the policy gridlock that characterizes most environmental debates, a new conservation movement has emerged.
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Book Category: Water
The quality and availability of fresh water are of critical importance to human and ecosystem health.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Landscape Architecture
Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that...
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Evidence is mounting that top carnivores and other large mammals play a pivotal role in regulating ecosystem health and function, yet those are the species that are most likely to have been eliminated by past human activities.
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Communities across the country are working to convert unused railway and canal corridors into trails for pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders, and others, serving the needs of both recreationists and commuters alike.
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Book Category: Sustainable Development
A great deal of reactionary political fire in the Mountain West has been aimed at environmental protection measures that are perceived to have destroyed or diminished the livelihoods of long-time residents.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S.
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Book Category: Policy & Law
While many of the roads on public lands provide a great service with relatively little harm, others create significant problems -- from habitat fragmentation to noise pollution to increased animal mortality -- with little or no benefit.In No Place...