Biodiversity books

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Redeeming REDD: Policies, Incentives and Social Feasibility for Avoided Deforestation

Redeeming REDD: Policies, Incentives and Social Feasibility...

Author: Michael I. Brown (Satya Development International LLC, Washington, USA)
ISBN: 9780415517874
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been...  Read More >>

Realising Farmers' Rights to Crop Genetic Resources: Success Stories and Best Practices

Realising Farmers' Rights to Crop Genetic Resources:...

Author: Regine Andersen (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway) ,  Tone Winge (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway)
ISBN: 9780415643849
Format: Hardback
$52.99

Farmers' Rights are essential for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agricultural...  Read More >>

Groundwater and Ecosystems

Groundwater and Ecosystems

Author: Luis Ribeiro ,  Tibor Y. Stigter
ISBN: 9781138000339
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Groundwater resources are facing increasing pressure from consuming and contaminating activities. There is a growing...  Read More >>

Agricultural Statistical Data Analysis Using Stata

Agricultural Statistical Data Analysis Using Stata

Author: George Boyhan (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
ISBN: 9781466585850
Format: Paperback
$168.00

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved...  Read More >>

Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa

Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa...

Author: Adrian Wood (Huddersfield University, UK) ,  Alan Dixon (University of Worcester, UK)
ISBN: 9781849714129
Format: Paperback
$92.99

In this book the authors argue for a paradigm shift in the way African wetlands are considered. Current policies...  Read More >>

Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawai'i

Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature...

Author: Robert J. Cabin
ISBN: 9780824836931
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Three quarters of the U.S.’s bird and plant extinctions have occurred in Hawai‘i, and one third of the country’s...  Read More >>

Insects and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services

Insects and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services

Author: Timothy D. Schowalter
ISBN: 9781466553903
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Although some effects of various insects will continue to be viewed as undesirable, the idea that insects should,...  Read More >>

The Key to Understanding Origins: The Underlying Assumptions

The Key to Understanding Origins: The Underlying Assumptions...

Author: David Herbert
ISBN: 9781894400534
Format: Paperback
$20.67

"The issue of origins is one of timeless inquiry-and the importance of understanding the underlying assumptions...  Read More >>

Perú: Cerros de Kampankis – Rapid Biological and Social Inventories: 24

Perú: Cerros de Kampankis – Rapid Biological and Social...

Author: Nigel Pitman ,  et al.
ISBN: 9780982841921
Format: Paperback
$62.10

The Kampankis Mountains are a knife-thin ridge in northern Peru that rises 1,435 meters above the surrounding Amazon...  Read More >>

Marine Genetic Resources, Access and Benefit Sharing: Legal and Biological Perspectives

Marine Genetic Resources, Access and Benefit Sharing:...

Author: Bevis Fedder
ISBN: 9780415830553
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity,...  Read More >>

Conservation Planning: Shaping the Future

Conservation Planning: Shaping the Future

Author: F. Lance Craighead ,  Charls Convis
ISBN: 9781589482630
Format: Paperback
$316.67

Conservation Planning: Shaping the Future is a collection of contributed chapters that show how working scientists...  Read More >>

EAF Toolbox: The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

EAF Toolbox: The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,  Food and Agriculture Organization
ISBN: 9789251072677
Format: Spiral bound
$81.40

The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) has been adopted by the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) as the appropriate...  Read More >>

Barcoding Nature: Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss

Barcoding Nature: Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an...

Author: Claire Waterton (University of Lancaster, UK) ,  Rebecca Ellis (University of Lancaster, UK)
ISBN: 9780415554794
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Informed both by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the anthropology of science, Barcoding Nature analyses...  Read More >>

Human Population: Its Influences on Biological Diversity

Human Population: Its Influences on Biological Diversity...

Author: Richard P. Cincotta ,  Larry J. Gorenflo
ISBN: 9783642267116
Format: Paperback
$284.60

In this volume the dynamic patterns of human density and distribution are examined in relation to the viability...  Read More >>

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the...

Author: Ben Collen (Zoological Society of London) ,  Nathalie Pettorelli (Zoological Society of London)
ISBN: 9781444332926
Format: Paperback
$113.95

As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing...  Read More >>

Biofuels in the United States: Developments & Trends

Biofuels in the United States: Developments & Trends...

Author: John M Cucinotta
ISBN: 9781624176302
Format: Paperback
$185.46

Biofuels is a collective term for liquid fuels derived from renewable sources, including ethanol, biodiesel, and...  Read More >>

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the...

Author: Ben Collen (Zoological Society of London) ,  Nathalie Pettorelli (Zoological Society of London)
ISBN: 9781444332919
Format: Hardback
$244.95

As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Food Security

Reclaiming Food Security

Author: Michael S. Carolan
ISBN: 9780415816960
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the...  Read More >>

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture...

Author: Bojie Fu ,  Bruce Jones K
ISBN: 9789400765290
Format: Hardback
$465.72

Climate change and escalating human demands on the environment have had increasing impacts on landscapes across...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Food Security

Reclaiming Food Security

Author: Michael S. Carolan
ISBN: 9780415816953
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the...  Read More >>

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development:...

Author: Peter Westoby ,  Gerard Dowling
ISBN: 9780415537889
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless,...  Read More >>

Pedodiversity

Pedodiversity

Author: Juan José Ibáñez ,  James G. Bockheim
ISBN: 9781466582774
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Soil diversity (pedodiversity) is part of our natural and cultural heritage. The preservation of the pedosphere...  Read More >>

Diversifying Food and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health

Diversifying Food and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity...

Author: Jessica Fanzo (John Hopkins University, USA) ,  Danny Hunter (Bioversity International, Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781849714563
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book aims to explore what the current state of knowledge is on the role of agricultural biodiversity in improving...  Read More >>

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