Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Status and Trends in International Trade and Local Utilization of Wildlife in Central America
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Transactions of the ... North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Includes another issue of 1936 ed. without illus.
International Wildlife Trade
Author: Sarah FitzgeraldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Journal of Interpretation
Author: Vital but vulnerable: climate change vulnerability and human use of wildlife in Africa’s Albertine Rift
Author: Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
Author: UN EnvironmentPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108707661
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment's sixth Global Environment Outlook calls on decision makers to take bold and urgent action to address pressing environmental issues in order to protect the planet and human health. By bringing together hundreds of scientists, peer reviewers and collaborating institutions and partners, the GEO reports build on sound scientific knowledge to provide governments, local authorities, businesses and individual citizens with the information needed to guide societies to a truly sustainable world by 2050. GEO-6 outlines the current state of the environment, illustrates possible future environmental trends and analyses the effectiveness of policies. This flagship report shows how governments can put us on the path to a truly sustainable future - emphasising that urgent and inclusive action is needed to achieve a healthy planet with healthy people. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Latin America & the Caribbean
Author: Kevin HillstromPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576076911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean—from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands. Home to Earth's longest mountain range, largest river, and greatest rainforest, no region boasts greater geographic extremes, faces greater environmental dangers, and enjoys more economic potential from its biodiversity than Latin America and the Caribbean. What are the political and economic factors affecting the Amazon's rapidly disappearing rainforest? What is being done to harvest life-saving drugs from the plants of the Orinoco? And what lies behind the mysterious disappearance of Central America's frogs? The work includes essays, tables and figures, and an appendix titled International Environmental and Developmental Agencies, Organizations, and Programs on the World Wide Web. Latin America & the Caribbean examines a region waking up to its environmental problems and possibilities.
Status and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds
Author: Deborah M. FinchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bird populations
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Global Casino
Author: Nick MiddletonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134051034
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, the human actions which have made them issues, and the hopes for solutions. It is a book about the human impact on the environment and the ways in which the natural environment impacts human society. The fifth edition has been fully revised and updated throughout, with new case studies, figures, and online resources such as downloadable figures and tables from the text and multiple choice questions for students, accessible at: www.routledge.com/cw/middleton. New topics covered in extended boxed case studies include payment for environmental services, ocean acidification, biofuels in Brazil, waste reduction through industrial symbiosis, and the long-term impact of natural disasters on vulnerable groups. Other approaches and concepts covered for the first time in this new edition include traditional ecological knowledge, environmental justice, the ‘resource curse’, and urban biodiversity. Eighteen chapters on key issues follow three initial chapters which outline the background contexts of the physical and human environments and the concept of sustainable development. Each chapter provides historical context for key issues, outlines why they have arisen, and highlights areas of controversy and uncertainty to appraise how issues can be resolved both technically and in political and economic frameworks. Each chapter also contains an updated critical guide to further reading and websites, as well as discussion points and essay questions. The text can be read in its entirety or individual chapters adopted as standalone reading. The Global Casino is an essential resource for students of the environment, geography, earth sciences and development studies. It provides comprehensive and inspirational coverage of all the major global environmental issues of the day in a style that is clear and critical.