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  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Modifié par Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... En savoir plus

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  • Restoration Ecology

    The New Frontier

    Modifié par Jelte van Andel, James Aronson ...
    Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr. Steven Whisnant of Texas A&M University and Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration.Since 2006, when the first edition of this book appeared, major advances have taken place in restoration science and in the practice of ecological restoration. Both are now ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • Rangeland Systems

    Processes, Management and Challenges

    Modifié par David D. Briske ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the ... En savoir plus

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  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Modifié par A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

    Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City

    Modifié par Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... En savoir plus

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  • Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

    Modifié par Marion Potschin, Roy Haines-Young, Robert Fish, R. Kerry Turner ...
    Collections series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental ... En savoir plus

    $126.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration

    Modifié par Stuart K. Allison, Stephen D. Murphy ...
    Collections series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread of non-native species to new habitats has forced restoration ecologists to re-evaluate their goals ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD

  • People and Nature

    An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations

    par Emilio F. Moran ...
    Collections series Primers in Anthropology
    Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studiesAddresses new issues of importance, ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Modifié par Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Collections series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas

    Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice

    Modifié par Nadja Kabisch, Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler, Aletta Bonn ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas. Emphasis is given to the potential of nature-based approaches to create multiple-benefits for society.The expert contributions present recommendations for creating synergies between ... En savoir plus

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  • Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (OPEN ACCESS)

    Trade-offs and Governance

    Modifié par Kate Schreckenberg, Georgina Mace, Mahesh Poudyal ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
    Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key findings of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, which has funded over 120 ... En savoir plus

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  • Ecological Sustainability for Non-timber Forest Products

    Dynamics and Case Studies of Harvesting

    Modifié par Charlie M. Shackleton, Ashok K. Pandey, Tamara Ticktin ...
    Collections series People and Plants International Conservation
    There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries. However, there is also an assumption on the part of policy-makers that any harvesting of wild animal or plant products from the forests and other natural and modified ecosystems must be detrimental to ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD