Authors:Peter Friederici, Ecological Restoration Institute,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: ecological, restoration, practice, series, science, pine, southwestern, ponderosa, forests
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2003-05-16
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 155963653X
ISBN-13: 9781559636537

Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests brings together practitioners and thinkers from a variety of fields?including forestry, biology, philosophy, ecology, political science, archaeology, botany, and geography?to synthesize what is known about ecological restoration in ponderosa pine forests and to consider the factors involved in developing and implementing a successful restoration effort. The book examines:? the overall context for restoration?ecological, social, economic, political, and philosophical? how ecosystem processes such as fire, hydrology, and nutrient cycl

Author: Society for Ecological Restoration InternationalJ
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: science, practice, ecological, restoration, series, business, natural, capital, restoring
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-06-08
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1597260770
ISBN-13: 9781597260770

How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in supply through environmental restoration. Restoring Natural Capital brings together economists and ecologists, theoreticians, practitioners, policy makers, and scientists from the developed and developing worlds to consider the costs and benefits of repairing ecosystem goods and services in natural

Author: Committee on Restoration Public Policy
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: public, policy, technology, science, aquatic, ecosystems, restoration
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1992-05-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309045347
ISBN-13: 9780309045346

This comprehensive volume examines the prospects for repairing the damage society has done to the nation’s aquatic resources: lakes, rivers and streams, and wetlands. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems outlines a national strategy for aquatic restoration, and practical recommendations, and features case studies of aquatic restoration activities around the country. 6 x 9. Index.

Author: Committee on the National Ecological Observatory N
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: challenges, environmental, nation, addressing, neon
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2003-12-15
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0309090784
ISBN-13: 9780309090780

The book endorses the National Science Foundation’s concept of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for providing a nationwide network of facilities and infrastructure for ecological and environmental research that is impossible with existing infrastructure. The committee identified six grand challenges in environmental biology - biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, invasive species and land and habitat use - that deserves high priority for research and needs to be addressed on a regional or continental scale. Ho

Author: Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road DensityNa
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: paved, roads, impacts, ecological, managing, assessing
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2005-12-22
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0309100887
ISBN-13: 9780309100885

All phases of road development - from construction and use by vehicles to maintenance - affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past tw

Author: The Landscape Institute and the Institute of Envir
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: impact, assessment, visual, amp, landscape, guidelines
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 041523185X
ISBN-13: 9780415231855

This second edition continues to provide guidelines on the best practice using an iterative, assessment-based approach to design developing for all types and scales of development, with comprehensive advice on the practice and monitoring of landscape and visual impact assessment. This edition updates and extends the existing Guidelines introducing new techniques, tool methodologies and applications.

Author: Institute of Medicine (U. S.)Institute of Medicin
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keywords: practice, protocols, transplantation, organ, heart, beating, non
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0309066417
ISBN-13: 9780309066419

Discusses the findings and recommendations of a workshop held in Washington, D.C., on May 24-25, 1999. Provides information on non-heart-beating organ donation among hospitals and procurement organizations (OPOs) involved in these donations and those with concerns about whether and how to proceed. For policymakers and administrators. Softcover.