Environmental Studies (15)

• Environmental Studies

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

• William J. Sutherland

There are severe problems with the decision-making processes currently widely used, leading to ineffective use of evidence, faulty decisions, wasting of resources and the erosion of public and political support. In this book an international team of experts provide solutions.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Environmental Studies

Ecocene Politics

• Mihnea Tănăsescu

Anchored in the diverse ecological practices of communities in southern Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand, this book devises a unique and considered theoretical response to the shortcomings of global politics in the Ecocene—a new temporal epoch characterised by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Environmental Studies

Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

• Steffen Böhm
• Sian Sullivan

Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action.

• Environmental Studies

What Works in Conservation: 2021

• William J. Sutherland
• Lynn V. Dicks
• Silviu O. Petrovan
• Rebecca K. Smith

This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 2526 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Environmental Studies
• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

• Eszter Krasznai Kovacs

This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe.

• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Environmental Studies

Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene

• Chelsea Miya
• Oliver Rossier
• Geoffrey Rockwell

The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment.

• Environmental Studies

Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates

• Nick A. Littlewood
• Ricardo Rocha
• Rebecca K. Smith
• Philip A. Martin
• Sarah L. Lockhart
• Rebecca F. Schoonover

Terrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation actions for wild terrestrial mammals across the world (excluding bats and primates, which are covered in separate synopses).

• Environmental Studies
• Media Studies and Journalism

Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change

• Michael Brüggemann
• Simone Rödder

Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.

• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Environmental Studies

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

• Sam Mickey
• Mary Evelyn Tucker
• John Grim

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of Indigenous communities, to the scientific knowledge of a biologist and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling.

• Environmental Studies

Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet

• Philippe D. Tortell

Written by world-leading thinkers on the front-lines of global change research and policy, this multi-disciplinary collection maintains a dual focus: some essays investigate specific facets of the physical Earth system, while others explore the social, legal and political dimensions shaping the human environmental footprint.

• Environmental Studies
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

• John W. Wilson
• Richard B. Primack

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict.

• Environmental Studies
• Media Studies and Journalism

The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape

• Heike Graf

The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of "the environment".

• Environmental Studies

Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes

• Bhaskar Vira
• Christoph Wildburger
• Stephanie Mansourian

This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits. Forests and Food is essential reading for researchers, students, NGOs and government departments responsible for agriculture, forestry, food security and poverty alleviation around the globe.

• Environmental Studies
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition

• John W. Wilson
• Richard B. Primack

FORTHCOMING

• Environmental Studies
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2ème édition

• John W. Wilson
• Richard B. Primack

FORTHCOMING

Ce livre, publié par Open Book Publishers, est disponible gratuitement au format PDF. La décision des auteurs de rendre ce livre en libre accès est remarquable, d’autant plus que cela permet d’attribuer à l’ouvrage une importance majeure dans le domaine de la conservation et de la biodiversité en Afrique et par les africains. Je recommande ce manuel aux étudiants africains, au personnel chargé de la conservation, aux responsables politiques et à toute personne intéressée par la conservation de la nature. La distribution gratuite assure un large lectorat parmi les universitaires, chercheurs et autres professionnels africains de l'environnement. Ce volume offre une rare opportunité d'accès à la recherche sur la biodiversité en Afrique, et les informations fournies peuvent être utilisées non seulement pour améliorer la collaboration intra-africaine en matière de recherche mais également pour renforcer les capacités locales et régionales en matière de recherche sur le continent. Cet ouvrage est actuellement la publication la plus complète sur la conservation en Afrique. Il constitue un point de référence pour les spécialistes de l'environnement, les biologistes de la faune et vie sauvage, les conservateurs et les responsables politiques qui travaillent sur l'environnement ainsi que sur la faune et vie sauvage en Afrique ; il est appelé à devenir un classique.