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Environmental Intelligence Unit eBook Series

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  • Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Conservation

    by Tundi S. Agardy ...
    Series series Environmental Intelligence Unit
    This book reviews the need for marine conservation, summarizes general measures for ocean and coastal conservation, and explains the rationale for establishing marine protected areas. The second half of the book is essentially a guideline for designing and implementing protected areas in order to make them viable and long-lasting in their effectiveness. ... Read more

    $63.35 CAD

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  • Overfishing

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Ray Hilborn ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine conservation, as well as the sustainable and ethical consumption of fish. But are fisheries in danger of collapse? Will we soon need to find ways to ... Read more

    $8.63 CAD

  • Whale-watching

    Sustainable Tourism and Ecological Management

    Edited by James Higham, Lars Bejder, Rob Williams ...
    Within little more than a generation, whale-watching has been subject to global industrial development. It has been portrayed by destinations and business operators, and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and an alternative to whaling. However, in recent years the sustainability of these activities has increasingly been questioned, as research shows that repeated ... Read more

    $116.63 CAD

  • Ocean Zoning

    Making Marine Management More Effective

    by Tundi Agardy ...
    Series series Earthscan Oceans
    Our knowledge of the oceans is increasing rapidly, as more powerful tools for exploration and exploitation make it easier to locate valuable resources, such as fish stocks, oil and gas reserves, or sites for wind and hydropower schemes. At the same time competition for space has intensified, affecting marine life and people's livelihoods. Much has been written about marine management using marine ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries

    by Alan Longhurst ...
    Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it induces in the fish, and that this is sustainable. His novel analysis of the reproductive ecology of bony fish of cooler seas offers some support for this, but a review of fisheries past and present confirms that sustainability is rarely achieved. The ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • Tigers of the World

    The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris

    Edited by Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus ...
    Series series Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
    Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast ... Read more

    $84.95 CAD

  • Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part Two

    by Andrew J. Marshall, Bruce M. Beehler ...
    Series Book 2 - Ecology Of Indonesia Series
    The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea.Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical data, historical reference, and fresh insight on this complicated and marvelous region. We hope ... Read more

    $35.27 CAD

  • Managing Protected Areas

    A Global Guide

    Edited by Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari ...
    This handbook, produced by world renowned experts from the World Conservation Union (IUCN), spans the full terrain of protected area management and is the international benchmark for the field. The book employs dozens of detailed international cases studies, hundreds of concise topical snapshots, maps, tables, illustrations and a colour plate section, as well as evaluation tools, checklists and ... Read more

    $179.86 CAD

  • Conservation of Freshwater Fishes

    Edited by Gerard P. Closs, Martin Krkosek, Julian D. Olden ...
    Series Book 20 - Conservation Biology
    Freshwater fish are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, but are also amongst the most threatened. With contributions from leaders in the field, this is the first assessment of the global state of freshwater fish diversity, synthesising the opportunities, challenges and barriers facing the conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity. The book includes the first global assessment of the ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • Climate Savvy

    Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World

    by Jennifer Ruth Hoffman, Lara J. Hansen, Ph.D. ...
    Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we conceive of and conduct conservation and management.In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer ... Read more

    $44.36 CAD

  • On the Edge

    The State and Fate of the World's Tropical Rainforests

    by Claude Martin ...
    In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world’s rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global air and water cycles. Since that time, new research and technological advances have greatly increased our knowledge of how rainforests are being affected ... Read more

    $26.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Towards Principled Oceans Governance

    Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

    Edited by Donald R. Rothwell, David L. VanderZwaag ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations.This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and ... Read more

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