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Nature is full of fascinating stories, stories that attract our attention at a young age and keep us amazed throughout our entire lives. The need to understand nature draws us back to its simple beauty again and again, yet underneath this simplicity lies a complex web...
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Oxford University Press
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2005-05-19
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Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate...
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Oxford University Press
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2005-04-14
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About this book This book develops a supporting structure for sustainable development, following a natural set of steps to reach an established goal. It provides the tools to......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book One of the major challenges facing humankind is to provide an equitable standard of living for this and future generations: adequate food, water and energy,......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book The interactions between Environmental-Plant sciencesal change and human societies have a long, complex history spanning many millennia, but these have......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book Soils would not exist without the complex and heterogeneous activities of microorganisms. For the third volume of Soil Biology, an international board of......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT is a volume on energy and environmental modeling that describes a broad variety of modeling methodologies, embodied in...
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the animal kingdom and affects the survival of both builders and other organisms associated with them. Animal Architecture provides a comprehensive overview of the biology of animal building. The book...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-12-23
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The aim of this book is to outline the main methods and techniques available to ornithologists. A general shortage of information about available techniques is greatly hindering progress in avian ecology and conservation. Currently this sort of information is disparate...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-06-17
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The aim of this book is to outline the main methods and techniques available to ornithologists. A general shortage of information about available techniques is greatly hindering progress in avian ecology and conservation. Currently this sort of information is disparate...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-06-17
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Mayer Hillman, one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, here offers the reader both a stunning analysis of the looming environmental catastrophe and a blueprint for avoiding it. The blueprint is practical at a personal level but the challenge he throws...
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Penguin
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2004-05-27
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Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-04-01
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This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. The relatively new molecular data allow one to assess...
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Oxford University Press
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2004-03-04
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Le constat de l'irréversible destruction des forêts tropicales et de la biodiversité masquerait-il une grande diversité de situations ? Fondé sur les travaux de chercheurs en sciences de la nature et en sciences sociales, ce...
Editeur :
Cirad
Parution :
2004-01-01
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Ce guide de terrain est la synthèse de plus de quinze années de pratique en aménagement forestier. Il vient combler une lacune dans la documentation sur la flore des zones sèches d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Ses 1300 photographies en...
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Cirad
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2004-01-01
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As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries?
In...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-04-24
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This is an account of studies of the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the House Finch. It is also an engaging study on the evolution of sexual selection in birds and a lively portrait of the challenges and constraints of experimental design facing any field...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-09-26
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In Aldo Leopold and an Ecological Conscience ecologists, wildlife biologists, and other professional conservationists explore the ecological legacy of Aldo Leopold and his A Sand County Almanac and his contributions to the environmental movement, the philosophy of...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-04-11
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Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-02-21
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How much do animals matter--morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our benefit? Or, should we offer them some form of moral egalitarianism? Inserting itself into the passionate debate over animal rights, this fascinating,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-12-06
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