Ecology - Environment Studies

Principles of Sustainable Development..

This book introduces the fundamentals of environmental monitoring, based on electronic sensors, instruments, and systems that allow real-time and long-term data acquisition, data-logging, and telemetry. This is an emerging area that is very important to some aspects of environmental assessment and c..

Research from a uniquely humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. This book addresses the ongoing community concerns about invasive species and the ecological changes that we will together face in a climate changing world. I..

The link between economics and ecology and the immense potential of that connection to influence the process of change within communities is the focus of this book. The authors theorize that in a healthy, future-oriented community there is a dominant role for sustainability. Economics, ecology, comm..

This comprehensive handbook brings together an internationally respected group of established and rising experts in the field. Good ecological restoration depends upon a combination of good science, policy, planning and outreach – all issues that are addressed in this unrivalled volume...

This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Collectively the chapters, written by the world's leading authorities, demonstrate the importance of biodiversity for people, policy and practice...

This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Collectively the chapters, written by the world's leading authorities, demonstrate the importance of biodiversity for people, policy and practice...

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique resource and essential reference text covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective, with contributions from leading authorities covering both natural and managed forests from all regions and climates of the world...

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique resource and essential reference text covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective, with contributions from leading authorities covering both natural and managed forests from all regions and climates of the world...

Originally published in 1979, Wildlife Management in Savannah Woodland provides a multidisciplinary approach to the environment. Developed by local scientists with a deep knowledge and understanding of the local situation, the book provides a pragmatic and realistic approach to West African conditio..

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and pol..

This book provides a review of the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme research study, based on the ecosystem approach...