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Cranes, a flagship species of waterbirds, have great cultural significance - especially the Siberian Crane. Yet, even after decades of conservation efforts, cranes remain threatened with 11 species at risk.

This book emerged from a conference sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies with the ambitious title, “Toward a New Consciousness: Creating a Society in Harmony with Nature” (held in Aspen, late 2007).

This publication provides a glimpse into the often intricate knowledge systems that pastoralists and smallholder farmers have developed for the management of their breeds in specific production systems.

A book about the threatened animals of Greece, with notes on distribution, population status, ecology, threats, protection measures and bibliographic references for each species. The book contains also a complete list of all the vertebrates of Greece.

This Book comes as a watershed of the work in IBSAR on the indigenous plants of Lebanon, where teams of IBSAR researchers have deployed their efforts in learning about local plants and their traditional use as a basis for valorizing them.

This report inventories and analyses the range of international laws that protect the environment during armed conflict.

"After nearly a decade on the defensive, the world of science is about to be restored to its rightful place. But is the American public really ready for science? And is the world of science ready for the American public?

This nonfiction narrative set in the Kalahari dramatizes the timeless struggle over water, the fulcrum of political power. Facing drought, scarcity and climate change the besieged indigenous Bushmen use voluntary survival strategies while Botswana's government enforces regulatory rule.

A practical desk reference for Geneva-based organizations involved in environmental and sustainable development issues. It includes practical information for each organization and distills the nature of each organization's work into one- or two-paragraph summaries.

This book aims to give more specific and more easily accessible information about Dokdo's ecological, geological, and meteorological conditions, and marine ecosystem.

Current trends in fossil-fuel use and inefficient land use will lead to large global environmental problems with respect to climate change and biodiversity loss. Technical and economically feasible options are available to meet the challenge to avoid these problems.

This book provides a year-by-year summary of the highlights of the four decades of the World Economic Forum. For the most part, it tells the Forum's story through the eyes of its members, the participants in its activities, and its leadership, as well as through media reports

To help shape a research programme proposed by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), this report seeks to highlight some of the critical issues facing water ecosystem services in Africa, South Asia and Latin America and makes recommendations on the research that is needed to fil

This report takes another look at the costs of adapting to climate change. The estimates for 2030 used by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are likely to be substantial under-estimates. Professor Martin Parry and his co-authors look at the estimates from a range of perspectives.

Denkmalschutz und Naturschutz sind zwei Disziplinen, die sich dem Schutz und der Pflege kulturhistorisch bedeutsamer Einzelobjekte, aber auch Ensembles und ganzen Landschaften annehmen.