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“lisa ringhofer”

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  • Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon

    On a Local Society in Transition

    by Lisa Ringhofer ...
    Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane’, a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Following a common methodological framework, the material and energy flow (MEFA) approach, it gives a detailed account of the biophysical exchange relations the community entertains with its natural environment: the socio-economic use of energy, materials, ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

    by Mark R Tercek, Jonathan S Adams ...
    What is nature worth? The answer to this question -- which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms -- is revolutionizing the way we do business.In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Guide to Australian Moths

    Edited by Paul Zborowski, Ted Edwards ...
    Moths are often thought of as the ugly cousins of butterflies, yet their colours can be just as remarkable and, with over 20,000 species in Australia, their biology and lifestyles are far more diverse. With striking colour photographs of live moths in their natural habitat, this guide illustrates all the major moth families in Australia, including some rarely seen species. It provides many curious ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    by Anouk de Koning ...
    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Career Planning for Research Bioscientists

    by Sarah Blackford ...
    Career Planning for Research Bioscientists is an essential careers guide for bioscience doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. It contains a wealth of information and resources specifically targeted at research bioscientists, with practical strategies to enhance career success in an increasingly competitive job market. Advice on how to write a winning CV together with examples adapted for ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Whale-watching

    Sustainable Tourism and Ecological Management

    Edited by James Higham, Lars Bejder, Rob Williams ...
    Within little more than a generation, whale-watching has been subject to global industrial development. It has been portrayed by destinations and business operators, and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and an alternative to whaling. However, in recent years the sustainability of these activities has increasingly been questioned, as research shows that repeated ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Demography and Infrastructure

    National and Regional Aspects of Demographic Change

    Edited by Tobias Kronenberg, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon. The population of Germany, as in many other countries, has passed a plateau and is currently shrinking. Demographic change is a challenge for infrastructure planning due to the longevity of infrastructure capital and the need to match supply and demand in order to ensure cost-efficiency. This ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Is the Planet Full?

    Edited by Ian Goldin ...
    What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Scaling

    Why is Animal Size so Important?

    by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen ...
    This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget, however, that physical laws are equally important, for they determine rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Land Use Dynamics in a Developing Economy

    Regional Perspectives from India

    by Shahab Fazal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story. There are evidences that urban growth is dispersed and urban sprawl promotes the spread of urban land use into the rural-urban fringe.Here the attempt is to investigate the land transformation and the driving forces which were influencing ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Ecotourism’s Promise and Peril

    A Biological Evaluation

    Edited by Benjamin Geffroy, Diogo S. M. Samia, Eduardo Bessa, Daniel T. Blumstein ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife. The introductory chapters focus on four key responses to human visitation—behavioral, physiological, ecological, and evolutionary. Readers will discover ecotourism’s effects on biodiversity in connection with ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Sustainable Travel

    Edited by Tommy Gärling, Dick Ettema, Margareta Friman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services research; environmental sociology and well-being research. The underlying dilemma is that neither ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD