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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $5.99
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Connie Barlow
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.178362
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Publication Date: 1997-09-26
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Reading Level: 329
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Description: In a provocative book that is sure to be controversial, Connie Barlow puts forth a compelling case for breaching the barrier between science and religion-in effect, for a reunification of knowledge and meaning. Evolutionary biology, rendered as an Epic of Evolution, provides a powerful origin story appropriate for our times. Conservation biology, ecology, and Gaia theory all reveal how we fit in with the natural world; Barlow argues that they can not only inform our ethics but also expand our sense of meaning. In dozens of unusually candid conversations with leading scientists and philosophers, she presents an emerging view of a new meaning for science in our lives-and why this new meaning is crucial for our times. "Green Space, Green Time could well mark a turning point in humanity's troubled relationship with nature." -John Davis Editor, Wild Earth Magazine
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $9.13
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen R. Kellert
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 1995-10-01
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Reading Level: 282
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Description: "The Value of Life" is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based, inherent human tendencies that are greatly influenced and moderated by culture, learning, and experience. Drawing on 20 years of original research, he considers: the universal basis for how humans value nature differences in those values by gender, age, ethnicity, occupation, and geographic location how environment-related activities affect values variation in values relating to different species how vlaues vary across cultures policy and management implications Throughout the book, Kellert argues that the preservation of biodiversity is fundamentally linked to human well-being in the largest sense as he illustrates the importance of biological diversity to the human sociocultural and psychological condition.
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Price: $130.00
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Sale: $120.54
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1998-03-13
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Reading Level: 476
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Description: While scientists usually examine either ecological systems or social systems, the need exists for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable development. Developed under the auspices of the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, this volume analyzes social and ecological linkages in selected ecosystems using an international and interdisciplinary case study approach. The chapters provide detailed information on a variety of management practices for dealing with environmental change. Taken as a whole, the book contributes to the greater understanding of essential social responses to changes in ecosystems. A key feature is a set of new, or rediscovered, principles for sustainable ecosystem management.
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Price: $33.95
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Sale: $9.85
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arnold Berleant
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 111
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Publication Date: 1995-01-24
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Reading Level: 315
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Description: Environmental aesthetics is an emerging discipline that explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is not merely a setting for people, but fully integrated and continuous with us, Arnold Berleant explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations. Insisting on the need to reconceptualize environment and recognize its aesthetic implications, he pursues a variety of topics and approaches to environmental aesthetics. Aesthetic experience, maintains Berleant, is always contextual. Recognizing that humans, along with all other things, inhabit a single intraconnected realm, he names the quality of engagement as the foremost characteristic of environmental perception. Berleant moves from natural to nonnatural environments, suggesting that the aesthetic aspect of any human habitat is an essential part of its desirability. From outer space to the museum, from architecture to landscape, from city to wilderness, this book discovers in the aesthetic perception of environment the reciprocity that constitutes both person and place. Arnold Berleant is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Long Island University, and the author of "The Aesthetic Field and Art and Engagement" (Temple).
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Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7009792
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Publication Date: 1999-01
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Three diverse authors have compiled essays written by distinguished LDS writers who have documented a wealth of information and experience on environmental situations affecting Utah and surrounding environs today. This material encompasses the sweep and majesty of a land of astonishing beauty that cries for understanding and respect from its inhabitants and visitors alike. Your outlook on this area of "God's Country" will never be the same.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Purdue University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan M Beck
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Publisher: Purdue University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.78
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Publication Date: 2002-01-01
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Reading Level: 116
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Description: This study of dog ecology (and behaviour) and of human ecology (and behaviour) discusses the facets of the phenomenon of the urban free-roaming dog. It provides information for students who wish to embark on studies of wild canines.
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Price: $37.00
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Sale: $36.97
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 578.62
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Publication Date: 2005-06-20
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Ecological economics addresses one of the fundamental flaws in conventional economics--its failure to consider biophysical and social reality in its analyses and equations. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications is an introductory-level textbook that offers a pedagogically complete examination of this dynamic new field. As a workbook accompanying the text, this volume breaks new ground in applying the principles of ecological economics in a problem- or service-based learning setting. Both the textbook and this workbook are situated within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity in an effort to guide policy in a way that respects fundamental human values. The workbook takes the approach a step further in placing ecological economic analysis within a systems perspective, in order to help students identify leverage points by which they can help to affect change. The workbook helps students to develop a practical, operational understanding of the principles and concepts explored in the text through real-world activities, and describes numerous case studies in which students have successfully completed projects. Ecological Economics: A Workbook for Problem-Based Learning represents an important new resource for undergraduate and graduate environmental studies courses focusing on economics, environmental policy, and environmental problem-solving.
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Price: $85.00
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Sale: $62.80
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Caryl L. Elzinga::Daniel W. Salzer::John W. Willoughby::James P. Gibbs
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.880287
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Publication Date: 2001-02-15
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program.
- User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format.
- The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address the current, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmental fields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife management.
- Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management.
- Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities. Covers the applicable principles of sampling and shows how to design a monitoring project.
- Provides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process, illustrated by flow charts and references. The authors also offer guidelines for analyzing and interpreting monitoring data.
- Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development.
- Describes common field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations.
- Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in the field, managing the data, and communicating data to policy makers.
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $12.97
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.897073
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Publication Date: 1996-10
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Reading Level: 205
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $4.99
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Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 1998-01
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: Ecology and Empire examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. For the first time it moves the debate beyond the North American frontier by comparing the experience of settler societies in Australia, South Africa and Latin America. From Australian water management and the crisis of deforestation in Latin America, to beef farming in the Transvaal, this topical book provides a broad comparative historical approach to the impact of humanity on the ecological systems on which settler societies base their livelihood.
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