Maintaining earth's oceans

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Louise and Richard Spilsbury

Introduces some of the animals that call the ocean home, discussing how they find food, what kind of structures they build to live in, and the threats to their habitat.

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David M. Gates

This book is concerned with the ecological and environmental consequences of energy extraction, conversion, use and discharge. It contains accounts of world energy resources and reserves and of their rates of use and expected lifetimes. The utilization of any energy form, whether it be renewable or nonrenewable, has ecological and environmental consequences. -- from Preface (page xi).

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Fikret Berkes

Papers presented at the Conference on Conservation and Development : Implementing the World Conservation Strategy, held at Ottawa in June 1986 and Fourth International Congress of Ecology, held at Syracuse in August 1986.

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Emma Marris

"For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues ... that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management. In this ... book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems ..."--Jacket.