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Att säkerställa djurens överlevnad är en av de viktigaste frågorna i modern tid. Björn Persson Afrikas vilda djur har funnits på planeten långt innan oss. Några av dem är mer än 50 miljoner år gamla, och den första människan tog sina första steg p...

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Det var med Stockholmskonferensen 1972 som världens uppmärksamhet för första gången på allvar riktades mot vår hotade livsmiljö. För den svenska allmänheten var problematiken dock ganska välkänd. I press och etermedier var miljöfrågorna ständigt n...

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Vi matas dagligen med nyheter och rapporter om planetens mörka framtid och det talas om klimatångest som vår tids folksjukdom. Men många gånger får den dystopiska bilden av utvecklingen för klimat och miljö motsatt verkan; i stället för att agera,...

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Arterna dör i en aldrig förr skådad takt. Detta är det sjätte massutdöendet och det pågår mitt framför våra ögon. Under de föregående 500 miljoner åren år har jorden drabbats av fem förödande massutrotningar. Denna gång är det värre än någonsin ti...

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This book offers a comprehensive review of current systems for fish protection and downstream migration. It offers the first systematic description of the currently available technologies for fish protection at hydropower intakes, including accura...

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A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The pollination of flowers by insects, birds and other animals is a fundamentally im...

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This book provides an overview of the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions. It describes each ecosystem type, the remarkable aquatic life that thrives in these extreme habitats, ...

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This textbook presents key theoretical approaches to understanding issues of sustainability and environmental management, perfectly bridging the gap between engineering and environmental science. It begins with the fundamentals of environmental mo...

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This book provides a concise and readable summary of the ecology and behaviour of bumblebees, with a particular focus on practical issues such as conservation strategies, management of bumblebees for crop pollination, and the possible impacts of b...

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The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, t...

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The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, t...

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This important new book seeks to address serious the decline in wild salmon stocks, providing a thorough review of the genetics of Atlantic Salmon.

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Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of research ...

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Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of research ...

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What does the Bible say about ecology? As people face huge ecological challenges-including growing hurricanes, floods, forest fires, and plastic pollution-the groundbreaking Eco Bible dives into this question. Drawing on 3,500 years of religious e...

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In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified i...

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As both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active and important research area. Reflecting the very latest research, this book provides a critical revi...

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This Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment revisits Professor Christopher D Stone's iconic 1972 article, and features an introduction by Professor Philippe Sands QC, a set of elegant and thought-provoking reflections on ...

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Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across several disciplines, and including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers)...

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Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic variation for population persistence. However, considerable debate now surrounds the role of genetic factors (as opposed to non-genetic factors such as habitat dest...

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Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied ...

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For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of...

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Denna vägledning vänder sig i första hand till handläggare på exempelvis länsstyrelser och kommuner som måste göra avvägningar och fatta beslut om dispenser och tillstånd som rör träd i offentliga miljöer. Vägledningen bör även kunna användas vid ...

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One of The Observer's 'Thirty books to help us understand the world' Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told we can save the planet. But are individuals really to blame for the climate crisis? Seventy-one ...

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Norsk succébok som sålts över hela världen! Insekter finns överallt - på de högsta bergen, men också i Londons tunnelbana där till och med en egen, unik art av myggor utvecklats. De finns inuti valrossars näsborrar och i datorer! De bär sina skele...

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Interest in trees, whether in our streets, parks or forests, has in- creasedconsiderablyin thelast 20 years or so.One reason for this has been the decline and dying of forests, which caused great concern about our environment during the 1980s. Bec...

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The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship. This compact overview integr...

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Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. Conservation and the Genetics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information c...

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This text provides an important new law and policy perspective to address conflicts and overlaps between social, environmental, and economic law. It is clearly structured with case studies and sources of further information for use in teaching sus...

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