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  • Ecology of Tropical Cities, Volume II

    Biodiversity, People & Places

    Edited by Fabio Angeoletto, Piotr Tryjanowski, Mark D. E. Fellowes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Ecology of Tropical Cities, Volume I

    Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity

    Edited by Fabio Angeoletto, Piotr Tryjanowski, Mark D. E. Fellowes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in ... Read more

    $318.99 CAD

  • Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands

    Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems

    Edited by Federico Morelli, Piotr Tryjanowski ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate ecosystems assessment, geographical information systems (GIS) and strategies for conservation of local ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

    by Robin L. Chazdon ...
    For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Rewilding European Landscapes

    Edited by Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly traditional agriculture in remote areas. This book proposes that this land abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to restore natural ecosystems via rewilding. We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long-term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes. ... Read more

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  • Conservation in Chilean Patagonia

    Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportunities, and Challenges

    Edited by Juan Carlos Castilla, Juan J. Armesto Zamudio, María José Martínez-Harms, David Tecklin ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world´s most extensive marine-terrestrial interfaces. Local place-based and Indigenous cultures and management practices are a vital presence ... Read more

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  • Foraging in the Past

    Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity

    by Lemke ...
    The label “hunter-gatherer” covers an extremely diverse range of societies and behaviors, yet most of what is known is provided by ethnographic and historical data that cannot be used to interpret prehistory. Foraging in the Past takes an explicitly archaeological approach to the potential of the archaeological record to document the variability and time depth of hunter-gatherers.Well-established ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD

  • The Maya and Climate Change

    Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands

    by Kenneth E. Seligson ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Approaches to Premodern Societies and Environments
    The Classic Maya civilization, which thrived between 200-950 CE in eastern Mesoamerica, faced many environmental challenges, including those wrought by climate change. The ability of Maya communities to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as they did. Researchers today understand that the breakdown of Classic Maya society was ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

    New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

    Edited by Tom D. Dillehay ...
    Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

    Edited by Jordi Catalan, Josep M Ninot, M. Mercè Aniz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides case studies and general views of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains and analyses the implications for nature conservation. Case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, with a comprehensive set of mountain ranges surrounded by highly populated lowland areas also being considered.The introductory and closing chapters will ... Read more

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  • Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas

    A Perspective from Historical Ecology

    Edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Guillaume Odonne ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
    This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years, Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced ... Read more

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  • River Conservation and Management

    Edited by Philip Boon, Paul Raven ...
    This book is intended for those with an academic, scientific and practical interest in river conservation and management. It provides an overview of how changes in legislation, policies, institutional responsibilities, science, technology, practical techniques and public perception have influenced how rivers have been managed over the past 20 years and the challenges that lie ahead during the next ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD