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A management approach that aims to maintain healthy and resilient forest ecosystems by focusing on a reduction of differences between natural and managed landscapes to ensure long-term maintenance of ecosystem functions and thereby retain the ...
Editeur :
Presses de l'Université du Québec
Parution :
2009
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The perfect, fun-filled Christmas gift for birdwatching enthusiastsDid you know that a bird's visible 'knees' are actually its ankles?Have you ever noticed that owls don't have eyeballs - they have eye tubes instead?Did you know that millions of house martins disappear...
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Gaia
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2025-10-09
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Experiencing nature has positive effects on mental development, health, and well-being, and can be interpreted as an element of a “good life.” This book relates this connection to learning and educational settings. Educational processes in biology education...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-09
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Discover the wonders of the natural world with this beautiful collection of botanical paintings from around the globe.The opening of the 19th century ushered in an age of unprecedented scientific discovery and artistry. As the development of the microscope allowed...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2025-09-04
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From the soils that sustain our crops to the homes we've built, the technology we rely on, our biological makeup, and even the tea or coffee you drink, rocks have had a profound influence on human life for as long as we have existed.No wonder rock has inspired art,...
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The Bridge Street Press
Parution :
2025-09-04
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'My encounters with nature are very personal. I am inspired by watching jays gathering acorns and hearing owls hooting.''In the shady parts of my garden, ferns grow. In the springtime, the ferns unfurl their tight, rounded, bundled leaves into rich green fingers. By the...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2025-08-28
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When Adrian Potter retires from a life of teaching in West Yorkshire, his interests turn to a local badger group. He takes over the 'Badger Phone', which he comes to realise is something of a hot potato. He is inundated with calls: reports of sightings, requests for...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book presents a comprehensive framework for applying digital technologies to heritage conservation. It begins by developing a knowledge path of cultural heritage buildings through methods such as 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry, and Heritage Building Information...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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Take a trip into the world of hallucinogenic plants. From ancient ayahuasca rituals in the Amazon to substance-fuelled partying in the Summer of Love, psychoactive plants have been used for thousands of years for everything from shamanic ceremonies to staying awake. The...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-07-24
Collection :
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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In the vein of #1 New York Times bestseller Soul Surfer, this inspiring story of loss and resilience follows the Reeder family after a horrific shark attack. A two-week vacation to the Florida Keys meant Mary and Jameson Sr. could share the beauty of their favorite...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2025-07-22
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Hailed as a “worthy successor” to John McPhee (Kirkus Reviews), Ben Weissenbach —a digital native with little prior wilderness experience—embarks on a series of scientific adventures across the wilds of Alaska with some of the state's most...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2025-07-15
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Environmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating the effects of their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance. It...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2025-07-15
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Fifty years ago, a deadly pandemic raged across the world, destroying all in its path and outmanoeuvring scientists' desperate attempts to halt it. Dutch elm disease destroyed 25 million trees in the UK alone, altering our landscape forever. Few people now living have...
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2025-07-03
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A hilarious, informative, and vibrantly illustrated guide to 101 bird songs that sound surprisingly familiar. Have you ever gone for a walk in the woods and wondered what bird was making a sound like a siren going off, or somebody revving a chainsaw engine—or...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2025-06-24
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A Few years ago the scientific world was startled by the assertion that at no very remote period, geologically speaking, the climate of the northern hemisphere had been very much colder than at present; and that the arctic conditions which now prevail in Greenland—with...
Editeur :
EHS
Parution :
2025-07-09
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This book aims to quantify and discuss how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia; not only in terms of provisioning and cultural services, but also regulating and supporting services. Patagonia, a region that stretches...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-29
Collection :
Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia
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This volume builds on the momentum surrounding queer work within environmental education, while also encouraging new connections between environmental education research and the growing bodies of literature dedicated to queer deconstructions of categories such...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-09
Collection :
International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education
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This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series.This book contains the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-21
Collection :
ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction
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