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Environmental Studies (25)

Environmental Studies

Coral Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Actions

Ann Thornton
William H. Morgan
Eleanor K. Bladon
Rebecca K. Smith
William J. Sutherland

Coral Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of actions provides an essential resource for anyone dedicated to conserving or restoring corals. This comprehensive synthesis of global scientific evidence examines the effectiveness of conservation and restoration actions targeting stony, soft and cold-water coral species inhabiting a diverse range of marine habitats in tropical, temperate and arctic waters from shallow coasts to the deep sea.

Anthropology
Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology
Science: Applied Science

The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research

Rebecca Lave
Stuart Lane

Despite ongoing debates about its origins, the Anthropocene—a new epoch characterized by significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems—is widely acknowledged. Our environment is increasingly a product of interacting biophysical and social forces, shaped by climate change, colonial legacies, gender norms, hydrological processes, and more. Understanding these intricate interactions requires a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative and quantitative, biophysical and social research.

Environmental Studies

Navigating Our Way to Solutions in Marine Conservation

Larry B. Crowder

Navigating Our Way reflects the broader insights and diverse voices revolutionizing marine conservation. This volume brings together an array of scholars, practitioners, and experts from multiple fields, creating a network of trans-disciplinary and multi-cultural perspectives to address the complex problems in marine conservation.

Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology

An Anthology of Global Risk

SJ Beard
Tom Hobson

This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by providing open access to original research and insights in this rapidly evolving field. At its heart, this book highlights the ongoing development of new academic paradigms and theories of change that have emerged from a community of researchers in and around the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The chapters in this book challenge received notions of human extinction and civilization collapse and seek to chart new paths towards existential security and hope.

African Studies
Environmental Studies

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast: Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia

Sian Sullivan
Ute Dieckmann
Selma Lendelvo

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation?

Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology

Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies

Philippe D. Tortell

Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world.

Environmental Studies
European Studies
Politics and Sociology

A Country of Shepherds: Cultural Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape

Kathleen Ann Myers

This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to sketch out the landscapes, actions, and challenges of people who work in pastoralism. Their narratives highlight how local practices interact with regional and European communities and policies, and they help us see a broader role for extensive grazing practices and sustainability.

Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology

The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies

SJ Beard
Martin Rees
Catherine Richards
Clarissa Rios Rojas

This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human extinction and civilization collapse. Bringing together experts from many disciplines, it provides an accessible survey of what we know about these threats, how we can understand them better, and most importantly what can be done to manage them effectively.

Environmental Studies

Seabirds in the North-East Atlantic: Climate Change Vulnerability and Potential Conservation Actions

Henry Häkkinen
Silviu O. Petrovan
Nigel G. Taylor
William J. Sutherland
Nathalie Pettorelli

This book was produced by the Zoological Society of London and the University of Cambridge with two aims: to assess seabirds’ vulnerability to climate change in the North-East Atlantic, and to identify potential conservation actions that could reduce this vulnerability.

American and Latin American Studies
Environmental Studies
Visual Arts

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art

Joanna Page

In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.

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.

Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology

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.

Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology

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.

Environmental Studies
European Studies
European Studies: Eastern European Studies
Politics and Sociology

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
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
Environmental Studies
Politics and Sociology

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.

African Studies
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

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa is the definitive open-access textbook on essential conservation issues in the region. Now in its updated Second Edition, this prizewinning volume, which can be downloaded for free, is an invaluable resource for university courses, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to halt the increasing loss of biodiversity.

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.