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"This work is the first textbook on population biology grounded in conservation of wildlife, giving students an approachable and motivational context for equation-heavy fundamentals"--
This volume brings together various perspectives to re-conceptualise IP protection beyond borders within a broader public international law framework.
In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse analysis, it explores that country's post-Soviet responses to European assistance and political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. These responses were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity articulated as contrasting visions of the "ideal" rural landscape.The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and professionals...
Intended for conservationists dealing with wildlife of European agricultural systems, this book contains papers and posters presented at this international conference. The topics include conservation of dehesa systems, ecology of breeding birds in flood meadows, corncrake ecology and conservation, and pastoralism in the New Forest.
Presented in English, French or Spanish, with summaries in the same languages, this title contains the proceedings of the Fourth European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism, held in 1994. This major meeting of scientists, conservationists and land-users discussed nature conservation and extensive agriculture throughout Europe.
Dry grasslands support some specialised bird species, in particular bustards, stone-curlews and sandgrouse. However, they are disappearing in Europe, causing a decline in these birds' populations. This text presents the seminar which discussed the rate of decline / habitat loss, and recommendations for halting it, within a European context.