Resultados de búsqueda: Conservation from Mike Park Ltd

Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. A few illustrations, large 8vo, pp x, 484, extremely clean internally, pictorial laminated boards in excellent condition. [An international workshop on `CO2 and Biosphere' was held in Wageningen, the Netherlands on 15-19 November 1991 as part of the activities of the CO2 Commission of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: this volume includes 32 papers presented at the workshop. The CO2 Commission stimulates and coordinates a broad range of research projects related to the greenhouse effect. This is reflected in the scope of papers presented, ranging from detailed analyses of ecological and physiological effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment to biosphere-atmosphere aspects, such as regional evaporation, energy balance and ecosystem responses. Relevant directions for future research are indicated by presentations on carbon fluxes in the soil, secondary plant metabolism and plant-insect interactions.]. Pictorial… Leer más

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. A few illustrations, octavo, , pp xiv, 344, pictorial boards, a very good. copy. [Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources—from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory—to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses… Leer más

Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1971. Illustrated with botanical line drawings and colour plates, large octavo, pp 248, clean internally, red and blue cloth vey slightly bruised, in a slightly worn and rubbed dustwrapper. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn.

Cambridge University Press, 1981. Octavo, pp viii, 327, fore-edge slightly foxed, very slightly used internally, paperback, covers slightly faded. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1996. A few illustrations, pp xiv, 633, pic bds, a v.g. copy. [From the library of Dr Peter Moore, with his label on the upper cover, otherwise as new]. . First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1968. A few illustrations, quarto, pp x, 320, a tiny name on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is a bit frayed and torn.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair.

IUCN, 1989. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs and maps, quarto, pp iv, 203, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. [+ the second publication, 48 pages, in similar condition.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Kota Kinabalu, 2014. Illustrated, quarto, pp xiv, 382, a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary. [Amphibians, by virtue of their thin, moist, permeable skins, are poorly protected from harsh environments and are especially susceptible to chemical changes, desiccation and alteration of their habitat. Accordingly, it is not surprising that they have manifest proportionately high extinction rates and suffer more severe declines than most other taxa in an environment undergoing unprecedented anthropogenic change.]. First Edition. Pictorial laminated boards. New/New.

Cambridge: Cambridge Deighton, Bell & Co. Ltd., 1991. Octavo, pp (xx) 362, pictorial laminated boards, no dustwrapper, a very good copy. (This volume consists of the Proceedings of an International Consultation on 21 -27 March 1988 held at Chiang Mai, Thailand. Sections include: The Issue of Medicinal Plants; Science, Industry and Medicinal Plants; Techniques to Conserve Medicinal Plants; Policies to Conserve Medicinal Plants; and Experiences from Programmes to Conserve Medicinal Plants.). First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Good.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968. A few illustrations, slim octavo, pp 54, slightly used internally, paperback, the covers slightly worn and with a slight crease. SCARCE. [From the library of Alan Titchmarsh, with his bookplate and a manuscript note on the title page.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Stroudsburg: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1977. Octavo, pp xiv, 224, a neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, cloth very slightly rubbed, spine head slightly bumped. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1999. Large 8vo, pp xii, 291, pictorial boards, an extremely good copy indeed. [Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a 'quiet Chernobyl' and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the region's decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.].… Leer más

London & New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 276, fore-edge very slightly foxed, otherwise clean internally, red cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly used. [ "This book is a plea for diversity - for the preservation of natural diversity and for the creation of man-made diversity - in the hope that the prevailing trend toward uniformity can be arrested and the world kept a fit place for the greatest possible human variety." From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Gland: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1980. Octavo, pp (4), 506, very clean internally, paperback, the covers a little age-toned, but otherwise a very good copy. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist richard Fitter with his stamp on the title page.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Scientific American Library, 1992. Well illustrated, large square octavo, pp xii, 242, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper has the very slightest signs of use. Very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly rubbed.

Cambridge University Press, 1994. A few illustrations and maps, small octavo, pp xviii, 197, paperback, a very good copy. [Kenya, Somalia, West African Sahel, Brazilian Nordeste, Australia, Ethiopia, South Africa, the Virgin Lands Scheme in the former Soviet Union. "People around the globe are becoming increasingly aware that our use of the land has an effect on the environment in which we live. Global warming is seen as a major threat to the well-being of the world's communities. Fear abounds, but does anyone really know what is going on? Will human activity make things worse? In this 1994 book, the author examines the relationship between society and climate change. With contributions from colleagues in the worst hit areas of the world, the author shows how some patterns of land use can make the problems worse; increasing the risk of droughts and associated food shortages. This book will help scientists and researchers assess our impact on the planet and consider our ability to respond to… Leer más

New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003. Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 240, pictorial boards, and extremely good copy. [Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown. This book presents the research results from three years of interdisciplinary expeditions to Easter Island. The primary objectives were to investigate the effects of human population growth on the ecology of the island and to discover whether any dramatic climatic changes such as a prolonged El Niño could have disrupted the island's fragile ecosystem. The interdisciplinary scientific team were mainly researching the paleontology, archaeology, climatology, and geophysics of the island. This book now brings together the results of the three expeditions, identifies new areas of research, and hopefully will… Leer más

Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1964. A few photogarphic illustrations, large octavo, pp 75 + many tables and folding charts at rear, a card-mounted overlay slip loose at rear, a small errata slip tipped-in after the title page, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly worn, the spine is torn at the head and tail. Presentation copy signed by author to the botanist Frank White. [Oxford Forest Memoirs, number 25]. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1992. Illustrated with charts and a few colour photographs, large octavo, pp xii, 412, very slightly used internally, pictorial boards, slightly worn and marked, the covers slightly bowed. [South Africa's Cape Floristic region includes approximately 8500 plant species. Most of this biodiversity is concentrated in fynbos, a fire-prone shrubland occurring on the sandy, infertile soils which predominate in this region. This book reviews a decade of rigorous research into the biogeography, ecology and management of fynbos, carried out under the auspices of the Fynbos Biome Project.]. First Edition. Boards. Good.

Periplus Editions, 1996. Illustrated, very thick octavo, pp xxiv, 969, very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just slightly worn, but now protected in a removable clear cover. From the library of the orchid botanist Jim Comber, with his stamp on the half-title. [The Ecology of Indonesia series explores one of the most biologically diverse areas of the world, incorporating current research from Western and Indonesian specialists. Each book describes in detail, Indonesia's fragile ecosystems, its unparalled biodiversity, its peoples and their use of natural resources, and the ecological problems which have resulted from rapid economic development.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.