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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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Illegal logging : law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade
    Tacconi, Luca

This book, written by the world's foremost experts, examines key issues, including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation. It includes key case studies from forest-rich hotspots in North, South and Central America, equatorial Africa and Indonesia. While there are clearly no easy answers, this book sorts fact from fiction and explores the many dimensions of the causes, impacts and implications for forests, people, livelihoods and forest policy.
Biological globalisation : bio-invasions and their impacts on nature, the economy and public health
    Weijden, Wouter van der | Leewis, R. J. | Bol, Pieter

This book integrates biological, agricultural, medical, historical and economic knowledge on biological globalisation. It treats invading micro-organisms, plants and animals alike in their multiple impacts on nature and biodiversity, the economy and human health.
Climate risk management in Africa : learning from practice
A guide to bycatch reduction in tropical shrimp-trawl fisheries
    Eayrs, Steve

This publication is designed for fishermen, net makers, fishing technologiests and others interested in a practical guide to the design, use and operation of effective bycatch reduction devices. Fishery managers, policy-makers and legislators will find this guide useful to help develop specifications governing the design and application of these devices in a shrimp-trawl fishery.
The Wild Places
    Macfarlane, Robert

The Wild Places is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of Dorset, the storm-beaches of Norfolk, the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex, and the moors of Rannoch and the Pennines, his journeys become the conductors of people and cultures, past and present, who have had intense relationships with these places. Certain birds, animals, trees and objects snow-hares, falcons, beeches, crows, suns, white stones recur, and as it progresses this densely patterned book begins to bind tighter and tighter. At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story, an exercise in visionary cartography, and a work of natural history, it is written in a style and a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned. It also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.
Case studies on climate change and World Heritage
   

This publication presents several case studies of selected natural and cultural World Heritage sites in order to illustrate the impacts of climate change that have already been observed and those which can be anticipated in the future. For each of the featured sites, some adaptation measures are also reviewed. It is hoped that these examples would not only be of interest to World Heritage professionals and practitioners but also to the public at large.
The thin green line
    Willmore, Sean | Hogarth, Jeremy

In 2004, Sean Willmore traveled across six continents and nineteen countries, interviewing and filming the lives and stories of park rangers, in an attempt to explore the social and environmental pressures on the front line of conservation.
Marker-assisted selection : current status and future perspectives in crops, livestock, forestry and fish
    Guimarães, Elcio P. | Ruane, John | Scherf, Beate D. | Sonnino, Andrea | Dargie, James D.

This book provides a comprehensive description and assessment of the use of marker-assisted selection for increasing the rate of genetic gain in crops, livestock, forestry and farmed fish, including the related policy, organizational and resource considerations. It continues FAO's tradition of dealing with issues of importance to agricultural and economic development in a multarget_idisciplinary and cross-sectoral manner. As such it is hoped that the information and options presented and the suggestions made will provide valuable guidance to scientists and breeders in both the public and private sectors, as well as to government and institutional policy- and decision-makers.
The business of the conservation nonprofit
    Dombeck, Michael P. | Pandolfi, Francis P.

The book contains 10 chapters on useful strategies and information to help small and/or large conservation organizations succeed in business. Topics include information on creating a strategic plan, a business plan and budget, performance measures and a Board of Directors, as well as the role of marketing, and internal procedures and guidelines.
Parks and carrying capacity : commons without tragedy
    Manning, Robert E.

Parks and Carrying Capacity is an important new work for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers in outdoor recreation, park planning and management, and natural resource conservation and management, as well as for professional planners and managers involved with park and outdoor recreation related agencies and nongovernmental organizations.
World natural heritage Jeju
Biotechnology : Eastern African perspectives on sustainable development and trade policy
   

This collection of papers is aimed at providing those making and influencing policies at the intersection of biotechnology, trade and sustainability with a comprehensive overview of key policy areas - in Eastern Africa and beyond - to enable the formulation of coherent policies. Moreover, it offers a platform for leading thinkers from Eastern Africa to share their concerns and aspirations with policy stakeholders around the world in an effort to help raise awareness and support the insertion of their perspectives in global debates and policy-making.
Conservation de la nature et aires protégées en Côte d'Ivoire
    Lauginie, Francis

Cette revue de la conservation de la nature et des aires protégées en Côte d'Ivoire, où les habitats naturels se sont trouvés bouleversés en seulement deux ou trois décennies, constitue une contribution à un état des lieux biogéographique du continent à la charnière de deux siècles.
National strategy of sustainable development of Montenegro
A long walk in Tallinn botanic garden
Communicating global change science to society : an assessment and case studies
Inventory of Bulgarian wetlands and their biodiversity, part 1 : non-lotic wetlands
Saving nature's legacy : origins of the idea of biological diversity
Protected areas and international environmental law
Biodiversity economics : principles, methods and applications
Biodiversity, ecology and conservation of littoral ecosystems in Southeastern Madagascar, Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin)
Australia : OECD environmental performance reviews
Powering China's development : the role of renewable energy
Oceans in peril : protecting marine biodiversity
Beyond disasters : creating opportunities for peace
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