Tag: Conservation

Free Download Frances Lennard, "Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032415819 | 2024 | 622 pages | PDF | 233 MB
This second edition of Textile Conservation offers an up-to-date perspective on the role and practice of textile conservators, capturing the diversity of textile conservation work across the globe.

Free Download Plant Biodiversity Conservation in Ethiopia: A Shift to Small Conservation Reserves
by Kflay Gebrehiwot Yaynemsa
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031202244 | 175 Pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB

Free Download Marine Otter Conservation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031539303 | 170 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 30 MB
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to conservation issues related to the marine otter (Lontra felina). The main goal is the systematization of different research efforts on this species, to contribute with conservation policy design and implementation. The authors contribute their achievements in conservation, ecology, status in freshwater habitats, habitat fragmentation effects, interaction with human activities and recommendations for an effective conservation of the species. The book is directed first and foremost towards researchers and authorities and people involved in conservation tasks of otters.

Free Download Forests in revolutionary France : conservation, community, and conflict 1669-1848 By Matteson, Kieko
2015 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 1107043344 | PDF | 6 MB
This book investigates the economic, strategic, and political importance of forests in early modern and modern Europe and shows how struggles over this vital natural resource both shaped and reflected the ideologies and outcomes of France’s long revolutionary period. Until the mid-nineteenth century, wood was the principal fuel for cooking and heating and the primary material for manufacturing worldwide and comprised every imaginable element of industrial, domestic, military, and maritime activity. Forests also provided essential pasturage. These multifaceted values made forests the subject of ongoing battles for control between the crown, landowning elites, and peasantry, for whom liberty meant preserving their rights to woodland commons. Focusing on Franche-Comté, France’s easternmost province, the book explores the fiercely contested development of state-centered conservation and management from 1669 to 1848. In emphasizing the environmental underpinnings of France’s seismic sociopolitical upheavals, it appeals to readers interested in revolution, rural life, and common-pool-resource governance

Free Download Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling, 3rd Edition
by Yaşar Demirel
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030561631 | 664 Pages | True PDF | 13.4 MB

Free Download Renzo Perissinotto, "Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems: Lake St Lucia as a Global Model"
English | ISBN: 1107019753 | 2013 | 511 pages | PDF | 37 MB
St Lucia is the world’s oldest protected estuary and Africa’s largest estuarine system. It is also the centerpiece of South Africa’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and has been a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since 1986. Knowledge of its biodiversity, geological origins, hydrology, hydrodynamics and the long history of management is unique in the world. However, the impact of global change has culminated in unprecedented challenges for the conservation and management of the St Lucia system, leading to the recent initiation of a project in support of its rehabilitation and long-term sustainability. This timely volume provides a unique source of information on the functioning and management of the estuary for researchers, students and environmental managers. The insights and experiences described build on over 60 years of study and management at the site and will serve as a valuable model for similar estuaries around the world.

Free Download Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation by Hugh Warwick
English | March 28, 2024 | ISBN: 1399403745 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 0.6 MB
Investigating the ethical and practical challenges of one of the greatest threats to biodiversity: invasive species.

Free Download David W. Macdonald (Author, Narrator), "Biodiversity Conservation: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ASIN: B0CSPSSZBN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:37:00 | 210 MB
Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right now but all the evidence suggests that current extinction rates are between a hundred and a thousand times greater than the background rate. To put this in to context, a quarter of all known mammalian species is at risk. The current extinction crisis is unique, because it is caused by the impact of one species, humans, on all others. This acceleration of species loss, and the much more widespread reductions in the populations of many species, is not merely a tragedy in aesthetics, it is also a threat to the quality of human life, indeed to the entire human enterprise.
Biodiversity, the diversity of life, is not only fascinating and beautiful, it is the engine of all the world’s natural cycles, and the source of many of the resources on which humanity depends. Concern about biodiversity conservation is, therefore, not merely the preoccupation of a few enthusiastic naturalists-it is the lifeline business of everybody.
David Macdonald introduces the concept of biodiversity and the basic biological processes that it involves-evolutionary, ecological, and behavioral. He considers the various threats to biodiversity, their impacts, and some of the solutions to the problems.

Free Download Amazonian Mammals: Current Knowledge and Conservation Priorities by Wilson R. Spironello, Adrian A. Barnett, Jessica W. Lynch, Paulo E. D. Bobrowiec, Sarah A. Boyle
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 483 Pages | ISBN : 3031430700 | 97.2 MB
The mammal fauna of the Brazilian Amazon is one of the most diverse on Earth with over 450 known species. Bringing together more than 70 of the world’s top experts on Amazonian mammals, this book unites, for the first time, up-to-date data on the current state of knowledge on the ecology of all groups of non-rodent mammals in the Brazilian Amazon, analyses the effectiveness of current conservation programmes and identifies research and conservation priorities for the future.

Free Download Stephen Blackmore, "Plant Conservation Science and Practice: The Role of Botanic Gardens "
English | ISBN: 1107148146 | 2017 | 272 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global change, nature is on the retreat. Like the communities they form, many plant species are becoming rarer, threatened even to the point of extinction. The worldwide community of almost three thousand botanic gardens are holders of the most diverse living collections of plants and have the unique potential to conserve plant diversity. Conservation biology is a fast moving and often controversial field, and, as the contributions within these pages from experts in the field demonstrate, plant conservation is multifaceted, mirroring the complexity of the biodiversity it aims to protect, and striving not just to protect threatened plants but to preserve ecosystem services and secure the integrity of the biosphere.