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Bee conservation
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild bees. The authors worked with an international group of bee experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild bees.
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Citizen science in biology
We can learn a lot from previous examples of citizen science and especially where data was collected just out of curiosity, only to be used many years later. Looking at citizen science projects can help us appreciate the public understanding of science in a broader context and encourage wider par...
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Ground beetles
This book introduces the natural history of ground beetles, paying particular attention to their feeding and the mechanical movements of their mouth parts and bodies in relation to diet and behaviour.
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Animals of sandy shores
This book introduces the natural history of sandy shore communities and provides keys that will enable readers to name the animals they find. It provides practical approaches for behavioural and ecological studies, including the survey and monitoring of populations.
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Purposeful birdwatching
This book explains how to make your birdwatching more enjoyable, fulfilling and worthwhile. Illustrated throughout with the author’s sketches and fieldnotes, this is a call to appreciate birds for themselves.
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Grassland restoration and management
Providing a thorough overview of recent research on grassland restoration and its implications for practical restoration and management, this book introduces grassland communities and the wildlife they support and considers the management of semi-natural grassland habitats with particular emphasi...
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Wild mull
With superb illustrations and illuminating text, we are led to the wild side of Mull. Every facet of the Scottish island's natural history is considered, its diverse species and many stories. Along the way we are reminded that wildness is not somehow separate from the human world but influenced, ...
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European deserts
This is the first book to identify, investigate and celebrate Europe’s little-known sandy lowland deserts. Arid and infertile, they present landscapes profoundly different from their surroundings and offer refuge for scarce flora and fauna with nowhere else to go, yet the continued existence of m...
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Wild alps
Wild Alps explores the stunning biodiversity of the Alps, telling the story of its remarkable flora and fauna, the ecosystems they form and the conservation efforts to protect them. This unique guide to Alpine ecology will fascinate nature lovers and mountain professionals alike.
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Shrewdunnit
Brings together the best of the author's newpaper and magazine dispatches, alongside unpublished essays, in a poetic and evocative journal that inspires and delights. Jameson’s prose is fresh and in places irreverent, with a hint of mischief and a dash of wit.
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Amphibian survey and monitoring handbook
Amphibians are among the most globally endangered groups of vertebrates with more than one-third of species being assessed as declining or threatened. This book is designed to help those carrying out amphibian surveying and monitoring so that the results of their surveys can be used effectively.
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Where to watch birds in france
The ultimate birding site guide to France – the 312 sites covered by the authors enable the reader to see the widest possible species diversity and largest range of local specialities in a reasonable time.
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Aphid predators
Aphids and their colonies are excellent arenas in which to observe predators in action. A range of insects come to eat or parasitise the aphids or to drink their honeydew.
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Where to watch birds in sardinia
This guide provides detailed information on the 43 key birding sites in Sardinia. For each site the target species are highlighted, along with information on habitat, when to visit, other wildlife, facilities, access, how long you'll need, the photographic opportunities and recommendations for yo...
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A wildlife guide to georgia
The first guidebook of its kind for the Caucasus, not only giving information on where to go birding, but also covering mammals, dragonflies, flora and much more.
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The biological recording handbook
Comprehensive information for anyone making wildlife records, whether amateur recorder, ecological consultant or conservation biology academic. Covers every aspect of recording, from how to make a robust record, to planning – including relevant legislation and monitoring – the wider context, anal...
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Farmland conservation
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. The list of interventions was organized into categories based on the IUCN classifications of direct threats ...
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Solitary bees
In Britain and Ireland there are about ten times more species of solitary bee than bumblebee and honeybee combined. They are a fascinating, attractive and diverse group that can be found easily in a wide range of habitats, both urban and rural, and they are important as pollinators.
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Human, nature
What does it mean to be a part of—rather than apart from—nature? This book is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can make our lives richer and more fulfilling. But it also explores the conflicts and contradictions inevitable in a world that is now so completely dominat...
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Grasshoppers
This book offers an introduction that will enable the reader to undertake investigations of their own on grasshoppers. Since much remains to be discovered about their life history, the field is open to amateurs.
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Reflections
This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too.
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Reconnection
This book tells the story of how our relationship with nature got broken, why it matters and how to fix it. There is growing recognition that the root cause of wildlife loss and the warming climate is people’s disconnection from nature, yet solutions focus on technical fixes. Reconnection conside...
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Rewilding glen affric
Rewilding Glen Affric takes us on a long journey of wildlife restoration one of the finest remnants of Scotland’s mighty Caledonian Forest. Packed with evocative words and stunning photographs of the trees and the great diversity of other wildlife that makes the forest its home.
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Rhythms of nature
After a career in conservation, Ian Carter moves to a secluded farmhouse tucked away in the low hills of mid-Devon between Exmoor and Dartmoor. Here he tries new approaches to connecting with the local countryside – from following streams wherever they may lead, to night-time rambles or simply re...
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Behind the binoculars
Mark Avery and Keith Betton, passionate birdwatchers and conservationists, interview members of the birdwatching community about the lives of famous birdwatchers. They take you behind the scenes, and behind the binoculars, of a diverse range of birding and wildlife personalities.
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Ladybirds
This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context.
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Perspectives on wildlife sound recording
This book provides an overview of current approaches to species-based sound capture. Via a diverse series of interviews with leading practitioners from around the world, the book teases apart the methods and fieldcraft techniques underpinning wildlife sound recording, weaving text, sound and image.
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Amphibian conservation
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of amphibians. Approximately 32% of species are threatened with extinction and at least 43% of species are declining. Work is now being carried out to conserve many species, but it is often not ade...
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Call of nature
Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature’s ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against the clock as a multitude of dung-feeders and scavengers consume ...
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Climate change and the future of boston
An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.
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Wildlife documentaries in southern africa
This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
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Environmental problem-solving: balancing science and politics using consensus building tools
'Environmental Problem-Solving' offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems.
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Environmental problem-solving – a video-enhanced self-instructional e-book from mit
Environmental Problem-Solving - A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT’ offers an online, self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve p...
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Artists activating sustainability
Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story examines the way in which the artists within specific communities, against the background of landscape and history, reveal concepts of sustainability that help us broaden our knowledge of what is needed to create a sustainable world.
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Instant insights: regenerative techniques to enhance biodiversity
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of regenerative techniques used to enhance biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, focussing on field margins, hedgerows, alley cropping and multispecies swards.
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Instant insights: rewilding in agriculture
This book provides a comprehensive overview of rewilding in agriculture, focussing on the diversity of best practices used to rewild grasslands and rangelands, as well as the benefits and trade-offs related to animal rewilding.
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Man and nature
After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that these societies were victims of self-destructio...
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Searching for habitable worlds
What does it take to consider a planet potentially habitable? If a planet is suitable for life, could life be present? Is life on other planets inevitable? Searching for Habitable Worlds answers these questions and provides both the general public and astronomy enthusiasts with a richly illustrat...
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Visual astronomy
This book introduces the basics of observational astronomy. It explains the essentials of time and coordinate systems, and their use in basic observations of the night sky. The fundamental concepts and terminology are introduced in simple language making very little use of equations and math. Ex...
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Elementary cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it is based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in Western tradition is...
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Protecting natural capital and biodiversity in the agri-food sector
This collection considers the importance of accounting for and protecting natural capital and biodiversity in the agri-food sector. The book reviews recent advances in natural capital, biodiversity and extinction accounting and how these methods are being applied in different sectors and regions ...
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Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
This collection reviews the wealth of research on ways to promote biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, focussing on the range of conservation, restoration and rewilding practices farmers and landowners can adopt.
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Lessons from reforestation of agricultural landscapes in south-eastern australia
Extensive areas spanning billions of hectares within the world’s arable landscapes are heavily degraded, have suffered losses of biodiversity, and require major restoration efforts. Indeed, the United Nations declared 2021-2030 to be the decade of restoration. The restoration challenges facing so...
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Soil health and ecological restoration
Soil health is central for provisioning and supporting ecosystem services for both agriculture and restored natural lands. Agricultural systems create different challenges for soil health that can degrade land and require implementation of restoration strategies. It is important that restoration ...
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Engaging local voices: farmers, rural communities, and ecological restoration
This chapter outlines engagement frameworks and strategies for understanding and improving the involvement of farmers and their communities in ecological restoration initiatives. It considers approaches for bringing together participants with differing perspectives and interests to address enviro...
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Developments in agri-environment schemes (aes): australia
This chapter explores the developments in agri-environment schemes in Australia. Agri-environment schemes have been a part of Australia’s environmental policy for more than two decades. During this time, schemes have evolved from community-based initiatives addressing land degradation issues, suc...
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Animal rewilding in theory and practice: australia and new zealand
Rewilding is the deliberate (re)introduction of animal species into local or regional areas with the joint aims to assist the conservation of those species and promote the re-establishment of lost or degraded ecological processes. In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand rewilding is particularly im...
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Stick your wellies on: messy development and co-design processes with england’s new environmental land management (elm) policy
Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, new Agricultural and Environmental Acts were passed providing legal frameworks for new policy actions in these areas. This chapter focuses specifically on the ongoing development of England’s new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. Th...
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The future of animal rewilding in agricultural landscapes
Ecosystem services obtained by returning wild animals to agricultural landscapes can outweigh the disservices (e.g., livestock predation) of those same animals. We foresee three key management trends that will facilitate a balancing of economic and environmental gains in animal rewilding: (1) cap...
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Implementing sustainable land use change programmes
This chapter covers implementing sustainable land use change programmes. It explores how these schemes have evolved alongside the principles of sustainable land management, how they are shaped by the culture of the UK nations within which they develop, and how the role and importance of the lando...
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The impact and design of field margins in promoting biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
Heterogeneous agroecosystems with diverse natural areas are more resilient than homogeneous landscapes. One way of achieving this is by creating field margins in order to establish a network of semi-natural vegetation across the landscape. Field margins support biodiversity within agricultural sy...
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Developments in agri-environment schemes (aes): north america
This chapter presents an economic perspective on significant agri-environmental policies that affect U.S. agriculture and assesses some of the environmental outcomes of these policies. The authors first present a conceptual framework for designing and assessing environmental intervention in agric...
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Protecting natural capital and biodiversity in agricultural supply chains: introduction
This chapter provides an introduction to protecting natural capital and biodiversity in agricultural supply chains. After a brief overview, the chapter goes on to summarise what the volume is about by focusing on the areas that are covered in the rest of the chapters, such as ways to address biod...
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Advances in corporate natural capital accounting
Several attempts have been made to classify business accounting approaches with respect to environmental issues. This chapter provides a short overview of such approaches, underlining their diversity in framing, methods and applications, and highlights recent attempts to standardise corporate nat...
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Life
Explores nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries, examining how information and communication are instrumental in and for living systems. Integrates a fuller and richer account through the physical, life, cognitive, social sciences and the arts. 51 b...
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Biodiversity considerations in the marine aquaculture and fisheries industries
The marine aquaculture and fisheries industries play an important role in global food security and nutrition. However, the natural (aquatic) resources are subjected to over-exploitation. The marine ecosystem also faces significant biodiversity threats that impact the long-term viability and susta...
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Territories, commodities and knowledges
Examines emerging methodologies and conceptual debates within the environmental history of Latin America. Issues addressed include the territorial expansion of the state and its impact on environmental resources and indigenous populations; environmental transformation; and landscape ""improvement...
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The empire of nature
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. In it, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters.
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The economics of the yasuní initiative
Climate change lends itself to both political economy and humor. Through the lens of thermodynamics, the payment Ecuador seeks for not drilling in the Yasuní is equitable and efficient.
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La economía de la iniciativa yasuní-itt
El cambio climático se presta a la economía política. Vogel ha construido un argumento a favor de llevar a los países ricos en carbono, pero pobres económicamente, a través del cuello de botella de la economía de vaquero y hacia el “comercio en el derecho de emisiones” de los países Anexo I del P...
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Instant insights: land use change and management
This book provides a detailed overview of the contribution of land use change to climate change, as well as the strategies and methods implemented to mitigate this impact and reverse global biodiversity decline, such as the development of agri-environment schemes.
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Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
This collection reviews the wealth of research on ways to promote biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, focussing on the range of conservation, restoration and rewilding practices farmers and landowners can adopt.
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Avocado cultivation and biodiversity challenges
Avocados, also referred to as alligator pears, butter fruits and ‘green gold’ are a blessing and a curse. The fruits are a high-value crop which can be used by farmers in emerging economies to generate much-needed income. Avocados are high in calories, vitamins and minerals and, as a result, can ...
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Developing and implementing plans to conserve insect biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
Insects are abundant and mobile biotic organisms that perform essential functions beneficial to humans. While insects are a vital component to agricultural landscapes, the agricultural systems that require their inputs create stressors to populations through farming practices affecting habitat re...
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Natural capital and biodiversity accounting in the swedish agri-food sector
This chapter describes how Swedish agri-food companies account for their impact on natural capital/ecosystem services and biodiversity. Sustainability reports or annual reports from 36 of the largest companies in the agri-food sector have been studied. Although most companies in the study have a ...
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Natural capital and biodiversity accounting in the dairy industry: the case of valio group
This chapter addresses the enhancement of and reporting on natural capital and biodiversity within the dairy industry as part of one company's broader sustainable development strategy. The chapter focuses on the dairy industry, as it is heavily dependent on natural and animal resources and also u...
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Factoring biodiversity into the agri-food sector: international best practices and experiences from south africa
The importance of sustainable agriculture cannot be understated. Responsible farming practices which address the growing demand for food with social and environmental imperatives are essential for the long-term viability of organisations in the agri-sector and, at the national and international l...
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Natural capital and biodiversity accounting in palm-oil production
This chapter reviews natural capital and biodiversity accounting in Malaysian palm-oil production. It outlines the palm-oil industry’s impact on biodiversity and natural capital. It then assesses the transparency of sustainability information in the Malaysian palm-oil industry. Five initiatives f...
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Natural capital accounting and biodiversity in the italian winemaking industry
Biodiversity is a key resource for our planet’s natural systems. This chapter analyses the Italian context by exploring the relationship between biodiversity and the winemaking sector. This chapter first introduces the Italian winemaking sector. It then discusses how biodiversity is defined in th...
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The circular economy and sustainable soybean farming in brazil: an integrated approach
This chapter provides an overview of a circular economy system combined with principles from the International Integrated Reporting Council’s integrated reporting framework. The model proposes that the circular economy and the principles of integrated thinking must be considered at the national l...
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Using data to assess the impact of agriculture on pollinators and pollinator services
Nature and agriculture are dependent on pollinators and the ecosystem services they provide. Using land for the production of food, feed and energy inevitably has an impact on other organisms. Without good data about production methods as well as abundance, diversity and health status of pollinat...
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Exploring corporate weather accounting by the uk food retail industry
This chapter explores the extent to which companies in the UK food retail and production industries are disclosing information on weather-related risk, especially in relation to climate change-induced weather risk, in their annual/integrated reports, their sustainability (or equivalent) reports a...
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Assessing the impact of pesticides on natural capital and biodiversity
Pesticides used prophylactically in intensive farming negatively affect non-target organisms, contributing to the acceleration of species extinction. This chapter considers key issues of pesticide toxicity that harm biodiversity and the natural world, including the adjuvant problem and the cockta...
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The role of global investors in protecting natural capital and delivering ecosystem services within agriculture, food and other land use value chains
This chapter summarises key sector developments and challenges, outlines the ‘five pillars of a sustainable food system’ and points to the role of financial markets products and investor engagement initiatives as potential enablers for medium- to longer-term transformative solutions in the sector.
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Biodiversity reporting in the fast-food industry
The fast-food industry has a significant impact on global biodiversity. The industry members are well placed to address these impacts through initiatives encouraging no-net-loss/net-gain biodiversity policies. A review of prior academic research identifies the key challenges faced by the fast-foo...
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Non-violence and ecological imperatives
In this era, when climate change is the biggest global challenge to humanity, it is crucial to investigate the relationship between humans and the environment. The book will unfold the relevance of non-violence that is not only limited to the peaceful co-existence of humankind but also signifies ...
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Modern melbourne
An analysis of the city of Melbourne using a wide range of historical, literary and artistic sources, including writers on modernity and the modern city. This environmental humanities and eco-cultural study of the history and culture of Melbourne and its site places it within the international co...
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The beef behind all possible pasts
This Tandem Festschrift pays tribute to Elaine Turner and Martin Street, to celebrate all they have both contributed to the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, Germany.
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The pleistocene of untermassfeld near meiningen (thüringen, germany)
Part 4 of the monograph series on the Early Pleistocene site at Untermassfeld details the research history of the site from 1997 to 2015. New results on the geological evolution of the Werra valley around the fossil deposit are discussed along with the absolute age of the finds. All contributions...
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Material culture and identity between the mediterranean world and central europe
Based on the research project the project "Metal finds as testimony to the interaction between Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily between the 8th and 5th centuries BC", the nineteen contributions to this volume deal with the interactions between archaeological legacies and identities
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