Nature : Environmental Conservation & Protection

With contributions from distinguished authors and covering everything you need to know about global warming and its financial implications, this readable book will appeal across the political and scientific spectrum. more...

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This fully updated and comprehensively revised edition of a classic text concentrates on the economics of conserving the living environment. It begins by covering the ethical foundations and basic economic paradigms’ essential for understanding and assessing ecological economics. General strategies for global environmental conservation, policies for government intervention, developing countries, preserving wildlife and biodiversity, open-access to and common property in natural resources, conservation of natural areas, forestry, agriculture and the environment, tourism, sustainable development and demographic change are also all covered. more...

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This volume examines the deep sea ecosystem from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapters examine the deep-sea floor, the deep pelagic environment and the more specialised chemosynthetic environments of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. These environments are examined from the perspective of the relationship of deep-sea animals to their physico-chemical environment. Later chapters examine the biogeography of the main deep oceans (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian) with particular attention to the downward flux of surface-derived organic matter and how this drives the processes within the deep-sea ecosystem. The peripheral deep seas including the polar seas and the marginal deep seas (inter alia the Mediterranean, Red, Caribbean and Okhotsk seas) are explored in the same context. The final chapters examine the processes occurring in the deep sea and include an analysis of why the deep sea has high species diversity, how the fauna respond to organic input and how species have adapted reproductive activity in the deep sea. The volume concludes with an analysis of the anthropogenic impact on the deep sea. more...

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Using several case studies, regional overviews and thematic analyses, this book evaluates the pros and cons of ecotourism for communities and ecosystems. Focusing on the Americas, it draws perspectives from private tour operators, non-governmental conservation and development organizations, local and indigenous communities and tourism researchers. more...

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Las pesquerías contribuyen de manera significativa a la oferta alimentaria mundial, sobre todo de las comunidades rurales pobres de los países en desarrollo, que dependen del pescado y sus derivados como principal fuente de proteína animal. Sin embargo, numerosos stocks y especies pesqueras se están disminuyendo dramáticamente, en muchos casos debido a la sobrepesca a la que se les somete, con la consiguiente pérdida de la biodiversidad acuática y de la seguridad alimentaria de millares de comunidades pobres. La sobreexplotación de las pesquerías a nivel mundial ha generado gran preocupación. Pero la discusión sobre la actual crisis pesquera se ha centrado casi exclusivamente en los recursos y biodiversidad marinos, mientras que las pesquerías de aguas continentales han recibido sólo una ligera atención. Este volumen se propone contribuir a un mayor conocimiento y difusión de las pesquerías continentales, los problemas que amenazan su sostenibilidad y las posibilidades para su manejo y conservación en los países de la cuenca amazónica. more...

Price: $40.00