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| 1. |  | Title: Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world Author: Tucker, Richard P 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Ecology Publisher's Description: In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The Hawaiian spinner dolphin Author: Norris, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Stafford) Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Biology | Ecology | Science Publisher's Description: Twenty years in the making by a distinguished dolphin expert and his associates, The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin is the first comprehensive scientific natural history of a dolphin species ever written. From their research camp at Kealakeakua Bay in Hawaii, these scientists followed a population of wild . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior, and physiology  Author: Le Boeuf, Burney J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Natural History | Biology | Ecology Publisher's Description: The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Called by the wild: the autobiography of a conservationist Author: Dasmann, Raymond Fredric 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Autobiography Publisher's Description: A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing. This delightful memoir tells the st . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outback Author: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Anthropology | Ethics | Ecology Publisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Ecology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Natural History | Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretation Author: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | Ecology | Biology Publisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: A bat man in the tropics: chasing El Duende Author: Fleming, Theodore H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Mammalogy | Autobiography | Ecology Publisher's Description: The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, wonderfully conve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Tropical forests and the human spirit: journeys to the brink of hope Author: Stone, Roger D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Ecology | Conservation | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Families of the forest: the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon Author: Johnson, Allen W Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Making environmental policy Author: Fiorino, Daniel J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Public Policy | Ecology Publisher's Description: Who speaks for the trees, the water, the soil, and the air in American government today? Which agencies confront environmental problems, and how do they set priorities? How are the opposing claims of interest groups evaluated? Why do certain issues capture the public's attention?In Making Environmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Geography | Ecology | Botany Publisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 Author: Walker, Brett L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Japan | Ethnic Studies | Ecology Publisher's Description: This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. I . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica: learning the lessons in a seasonal dry forest Author: Frankie, G. W Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Ecology | Conservation | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The beautiful tropical dry forest of northwest Costa Rica, with its highly seasonal rainfall and diversely vegetated landscape, is disappearing even more rapidly than Costa Rica's better-known rain forest, primarily because it has been easier to convert to agriculture. This book, based on more than . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Ecology | African Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination Author: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The forgiving air: understanding environmental change Author: Somerville, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | Science Publisher's Description: The Forgiving Air is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change. Written by a scientist for nonscientists, this primer humanizes the great environmental issues of our time - the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollution - and explains everything in acce . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Rich forests, poor people: resource control and resistance in Java Author: Peluso, Nancy Lee Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Southeast Asia | Environmental Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Peluso untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries. Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Changing fortunes: biodiversity and peasant livelihood in the Peruvian Andes Author: Zimmerer, Karl S Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Geography | Ecology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Two of the world's most pressing needs - biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World - are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in th . . . [more] Similar Items |