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Wild Hope On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
ISBN: PB: 9780226036014, ISBN: HB: 9780226035970, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any goo...
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£13,50
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Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past
ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables
The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...
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£34,00
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Stitching the West Back Together Conservation of Working Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780226165714, ISBN: HB: 9780226165684, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 5 tables
News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranche...
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£28,00
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Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation
ISBN: PB: 9783593500287, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
272 pp., 22x14 cm
Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. T...
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£37,00
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Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation
ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...
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£36,00
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Large Carnivore Conservation Integrating Science and Policy in the North American West
ISBN: HB: 9780226107400, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 line drawings, 3 tables
Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, "Large Carnivore Conservation" argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of peo...
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Peru: Ere-Campuya-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 25
ISBN: PB: 9780982841938, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2014
380 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates
In October 2012, an international and multidisciplinary team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Ere, Campuya, and Algodon watersheds of northern Amazonian Peru. Team members working on the social inventory studied the...
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Consumed Food for a Finite Planet
ISBN: HB: 9780226093628, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same tim...
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Zookeeping An Introduction to the Science and Technology
ISBN: HB: 9780226925318, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
688 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 85 halftones, 55 line drawings, 48 tables
As species extinction, environmental protection, animal rights, and workplace safety issues come to the fore, zoos and aquariums need keepers who have the technical expertise and scientific knowledge to keep animals healthy, educate the public, and c...
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Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics
ISBN: PB: 9780226253411, ISBN: HB: 9780226253404, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 98 colour plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables
The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As "The Ornaments of Life" reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants – toucans, monkeys, leaf-...
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