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Mountains and Plains The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300185928, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 168 colour images, 77 black&white illus.
Many changes – some discouraging, others hopeful – have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce,...
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£35,00
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Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification
ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...
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£30,00
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Banned A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
ISBN: HB: 9780300205176, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Rachel Carson's seminal book Silent Spring, published in 1962, stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Powerful and eloquent, the book exposed the dangers of indiscriminate chemical pesticide use. It also inspired importan...
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£30,00
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Question of Balance Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
ISBN: PB: 9780300209396, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.
As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken centre stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues...
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£19,99
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Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River
ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...
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£19,99
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£25,00
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Invasive Species in a Globalized World Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226166186, ISBN: HB: 9780226166049, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 34 halftones, 15 line drawings, 13 tables
Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separate...
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£36,00
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£94,00
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Wild Hope On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
ISBN: PB: 9780226036014, ISBN: HB: 9780226035970, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any goo...
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£13,50
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£21,00
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Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past
ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables
The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...
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£34,00
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Stitching the West Back Together Conservation of Working Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780226165714, ISBN: HB: 9780226165684, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 5 tables
News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranche...
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£28,00
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£80,00
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Irreplaceable Woodlands Some Practical Steps to Restoring Our Wildlife Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781906506537, GMC Group, Papadakis, September 2014
240 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.
This book is not only a beautiful record of the ancient woodlands that, thanks to good management, have continued to thrive, it also constitutes a practical manual and provides inspiration for those working to preserve our existing ancient woodlands,...
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£25,00
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