Biodiversity & Conservation Books

New and Published Books

1. Only One Earth

   The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

   By Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, Maurice F. Strong

   Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change

   Renewing Damaged Ecosystems

   By Stuart K. Allison

   What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored from its damaged state, what is the appropriate outcome? With climate change now threatening...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Conservation and Sustainable Development

   Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa

   Edited by Jonathan Davies

   Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development

   The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Zeronauts

   Breaking the Sustainability Barrier

   By John Elkington

   A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Local and Regional Policy and Management

   Edited by Heidi Wittmer, Haripriya Gundimeda

   Series: TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

   In this volume of the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) publication series, the key concepts of the project are applied to local and regional policy and public management. The aim is to show that by taking nature's benefits into account, decision makers can promote local...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations

   Edited by Pushpam Kumar

   Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination and flood control, all of which are dependent on biodiversity. They are predominantly public goods with limited or no...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land

   The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa

   Edited by Fred Nelson

   Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes,...

   Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

   Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

   Edited by Helen Suich, Brian Child

   The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the traditional '...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Wild Product Governance

   Finding Policies that Work for Non-Timber Forest Products

   Edited by Sarah A. Laird, Rebecca J. McLain, Rachel P. Wynberg

   Products from the wild, also known as non-timber forest products (NTFPs), are used as medicines, foods, spices, and a multitude of other purposes. They contribute substantially to rural livelihoods, generate revenue for companies and governments, and have a range of impacts on biodiversity...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. Monitoring Forest Biodiversity

    Improving Conservation through Ecologically-Responsible Management

    By Toby Gardner

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity depends upon our ability to improve the management of forest ecosystems that have already been substantially modified by humans. Monitoring is an essential ingredient in meeting this challenge, allowing us to measure the impact of different...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge