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  • From the Past to the Future: 300 Years of Sámi Reindeer Herding Knowledge

    Perceptions of the Sámi from 1725 by Knud Leem

    by Inger Marie G. Eira, Anders Oskal, Svein Disch Mathiesen, Marina Tonkopeeva ...
    This open access book provides a unique way of documenting traditional Sámi knowledge that has survived almost 300 years followed by today’s analysis of the modern state of Sámi reindeer husbandry. Reindeer herders’ knowledge, their language and ways of managing the herds have hardly changed over the past centuries. It is the same ancient knowledge that now forms the basis for how reindeer herders ... Read more

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  • Reindeer Husbandry

    Adaptation to the Changing Arctic, Volume 1

    Edited by Svein Disch Mathiesen, Inger Marie Gaup Eira, Ellen Inga Turi, Anders Oskal, Mikhail Pogodaev, Marina Tonkopeeva ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on climate change, Indigenous reindeer husbandry, and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of Indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the world’s leading academics.The Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, climate, and biodiversity are changing in ways unprecedented in the long histories of the north, ... Read more

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  • Reindeer Husbandry

    Resilience in the Changing Arctic, Volume 2

    Edited by Svein Disch Mathiesen, Inger Marie Gaup Eira, Ellen Inga Turi, Anders Oskal, Mikhail Pogodaev, Marina Tonkopeeva ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book focuses on climate change, indigenous reindeer husbandry and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the world’s leading academics.The Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, climate and biodiversity are changing in ways unprecedented in the long histories of the north, ... Read more

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  • Urban Ecology

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    by Richard T. T. Forman ...
    How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration

    Edited by Stuart K. Allison, Stephen D. Murphy ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread of non-native species to new habitats has forced restoration ecologists to re-evaluate their goals ... Read more

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  • Urban Biodiversity

    From Research to Practice

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  • Living in a Warmer World

    How a changing climate will affect our lives

    Edited by Jim Salinger ...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology

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  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... Read more

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  • Building the Climate Change Resilience of Mongolia’s Blue Pearl

    A Case Study of Khuvsgul Lake National Park

    by Mark R. Bezuijen, Michael Russell, Robert J. Zomer, D. Enkhtaivan ...
    Climate change threatens to undermine the conservation values of protected areas, such as Khuvsgul Lake National Park (KLNP), one of Mongolia’s largest and most visited parks. Khuvsgul Lake is sacred to Mongolians and is known locally as the Blue Pearl. This publication presents the first quantitative assessment of the potential impacts of climate change to a protected area in Mongolia in relation ... Read more

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    Edited by Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Martin Evans, Hans Joosten, Rob Stoneman ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    Peatlands provide globally important ecosystem services through climate and water regulation or biodiversity conservation. While covering only 3% of the earth's surface, degrading peatlands are responsible for nearly a quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Bringing together world-class experts from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of peatlands ... Read more

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