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  • The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

    Meeting the challenge of biodiversity conservation and governance

    Edited by Marie Hrabanski, Denis Pesche ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Biodiversity Politics and Management
    Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda. With contributions from more than a dozen well-renowned researchers in political science, law and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • Diversity and Complexity

    by Scott E. Page ...
    Series series Primers in Complex Systems
    This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Hunt for the Golden Mole

    All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter

    by Richard Girling ...
    Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind's interest in hunting and collecting—what prompts us to do this? What good might come of our need to catalog all the living things of the natural world?Girling, named Environmental Journalist of the Years 2008 and 2009, has here chronicled – ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • From Populations to Ecosystems

    Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis

    by Michel Loreau ...
    Series Book 46 - Monographs in Population Biology
    The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From Populations to Ecosystems proposes an innovative theoretical synthesis ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Islands Beyond the Horizon

    The life of twenty of the world's most remote places

    by Roger Lovegrove ...
    Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world, and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept, wave-lashed ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Witness to Extinction

    How we Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin

    by Samuel Turvey ...
    The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many Chinese legends and folk tales. The Goddess of the Yangtze, as it was known, was also the lone representative of an entire and ancient branch of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

    Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future

    by Felix Dodds, Jorge Laguna-Celis, Liz Thompson ...
    Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.Written by practitioners ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Amphibians of Peninsular India

    by R J Ranjit Daniels ...
    Amphibians are considered to be the best indicators of environmental health. A decline in amphibian populations indicates ecosystem deterioration that might affect a wider spectrum of the earth's biological diversity. During the last 12 years there has been a great concern, worldwide, about the rapid decline in amphibian populations. Many reasons have been attributed to the loss of amphibians ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Intellectual Property Rights Trade and Biodiversity

    by Graham Dutfield ...
    This text examines the international agreements governing trade in genetic resources - crucial resources for world agriculture, food security and large industries such as pharmaceuticals. Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in these resources are critical for those involved in the trade, including industry and developing countries. The book analyzes the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Bioformulations: for Sustainable Agriculture

    Edited by Naveen Kumar Arora, Samina Mehnaz, Raffaella Balestrini ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    More than a century has passed since the first bioformulations were introduced to the market. But there is still much to be done, explored and developed. Though bioformulations offer green alternatives and are important for sustainable agriculture, they make up only a small fraction of the total additions used to enhance crop yields or protect them from pests. There is a great need to develop ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Humankind

    by Alexander H Harcourt ...
    Where did the human species originate, why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar latitudes, and why can only Japanese peoples digest seaweed? In Humankind, U. C. Davis professor Alexander Harcourt answers these questions and more, as he explains how the expansion of the human species around the globe and our interaction with our environment explains much about why humans ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • How Should We Read the Book of Genesis? Interviews With Dennis Gordon

    by Dennis Gordon ...
    Dennis Gordon, with a PhD in zoology and an ordained minister, comments on how we should read the book of Genesis. He offers a constructive way to think about issues of creation and evolution, as well as a Christian's responsibility toward the world God has created. ... Read more

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