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Have you wondered about seaside towns on the Oregon coast? Here are knothole musings about shipwrecks, whales, sea lions, trains, airplanes, birds, rough road trips - all sprinkled with the potpourri of life.

Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root causes of global warming. Readers are provided all the most up-to-date thinking and information on each issue due to the extensive list of references connected to each chapter. By linking various topics and interesting new innovations that are often synergistic, this book covers a wide range of issues in global warming adaptation that is ideal for readers from many disciplines.

It is estimated that, as a result of climate change, illegal trade, and habitat loss from the encroachments of technology and industrialization, as many as one in eight species of birds is heading towards extinction. Created in close collaboration between Sean Scully and Kelly Grovier, each pairing of poem and drawing is devoted to the beauty and mystery of an individual species of bird. Scully's visual language, at once measured and impassioned, geometric and free-flowing, captures the essence of creatures that are, themselves, on the brink of becoming mere abstractions. Though his first series of iPhone drawings are consistent with his signature style, they reveal a fresh intimacy, playfulness, and exhilaration of gesture, color, and form that is in accord with the wonder of feathered flight. Created on a digital device, the drawings are, as Scully remarked, the ironic embodiment of "technology which is ruining nature turned inside out to protest its demise." Yet taken together, these duets aim to offer something uplifting in the face of an accelerating tragedy. "Hope" is, after all as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, "the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul."Having developed a style over the past five decades that is uniquely his own, SEAN SCULLY (*1945, Dublin) is one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary artists. He is known for his large-scale abstract sculptures, installations and paintings, comprised of vertical and horizontal color bands, blocks and geometrical forms as well as his intellectually engaging writings and lectures.KELLY GROVIER is a poet and cultural critic. Educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of Oxford, he is a feature writer for BBC Culture and co-founder of the international scholarly journal European Romantic Review.

If you love the Florida Keys for sport fishing, diving, boating, seafood or sunsets, you know the magic of Florida Bay. Tourists from around the world and residents of South Florida cherish the bay for its scenic beauty. This valuable and vulnerable resource is home to remarkable birds, fish and other sea life, and depends upon the quantity and quality of water flowing through the Everglades for its health. Founded in 1994 by two conservationists who lived on and fished in Florida Bay, the Everglades Foundation strives to improve water quality for everyone in South Florida. The Foundation's 20th anniversary is a perfect time to celebrate everything they have accomplished, as well as the work of other conservation groups--large and small--throughout the Florida Keys. Features breathtaking images from some of the region's most renowned photographers, including: Alejandro Borgese, Will Benson, Clyde Butcher, Brian F. Call, Fran Carlisle, Pat Ford, Stephen Frink, Tim Grollimund, Jessica Hodder, Flex Maslan, Paul Marcellini, Misha McRae, Rob O'Neal, Tim Rahn, Ross Reeder, Collin Ross, Mac Stone, CartonWard Jr., and others, plus the artwork of Wyland and Bryan Haynes.

"An extraordinary journey to visit the oldest trees in the United States that beautifully reveals the connection between humans and natural history"--

What will it take for us to heal as a society and face up to the challenge of climate change? Four foundational concepts came to mind: spirit, nature, heritage and community. Human Spirit because we're deeply wounded and we are wounding each other and the planet as a result; we need a combined sense of humbleness and can-do spirit to rise to the occasion. Mother Nature because there are vital restorative forces there that can guide us. Heritage Values because we should gain wisdom from those who have come before us. And Beloved Community because we must enact hopeful solutions in teamwork with others. If we all act bravely together in grassroots fashion, our cumulative actions ripple across civil society creating the prospect for a sea change which can renew the world. The author thought what better way to explore these four healing tenets than to walk four directions in their honor. By doing so he hoped to make these cornerstones more concrete while actualizing and assembling them into the wholeness we need to successfully combat the climate crisis. This book is dedicated to upholding the web of life all around us, to building a mass movement for a livable climate and to raising up the regenerative power of walking. Walking tributes abound and walking heroes are featured throughout. Two of the author's walking heroes are his own dogs, who get him started and help him complete the journey. In exploring his own and broader human frailty as well as redemption, Robb is insightful and self deprecating. His heartwarming endeavor for integrity shines light on sources of solution that are age-old, interpersonal and original.

This book aims to synthesize the state of the art on biodiversity knowledge exchange practices to understand where and how improvements can be made to close the knowledge-implementation gap in conservation science and advance this interdisciplinary topic. Bringing together the most prominent scholars and practitioners in the field, the book looks into the various sources used to produce biodiversity knowledge - from natural and social sciences to Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Citizen Science - as well as knowledge mobilization approaches to highlight the key ingredients that render successful conservation action at a global scale. By doing so, the book identified major current challenges and opportunities in the field, for different sectors that generate, mobilize, and use biodiversity knowledge (like academia, boundary organizations, practitioners, and policy-makers), to further develop cross-sectorial knowledge mobilization strategies and enhance evidence-informed decision-making processes globally.

Many things happen in nature reserves that are contradictory at first glance. For example, flower meadows are mown down during maintenance work, even though all the plants growing there are protected. Elsewhere, protected reed beds are burnt down in a fen or the top layer of soil is removed with bulldozers in a dune conservation area. Still other areas are to remain completely untouched by human intervention. The author Klaus-Dieter Hupke shows the different strategies of nature conservation. He also shows that nature conservation is mostly not exactly what the term says in essence: "protection of nature". On the contrary, in Central Europe nature conservation areas are predominantly the relics of old agricultural and thus cultural landscapes. Often, aesthetic aspects of a landscape section are also in the foreground when designating it as a natural monument or nature reserve. Moreover, nature conservation runs the risk of becoming a substitute action and an alibi for a stillgrowing destruction of traditional and near-natural landscape systems in Central Europe as well as globally.The updated second edition now explicitly includes the consequences of climate change for nature conservation and has also incorporated a stronger reference to Austria as well as to the central Alpine region in some places for the relevant readers.

The amazing story of the transformation of the Hudson River; a tale of environmental, economic, cultural, and political success.

Focuses on a key issue of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation?

"Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financers, architects and advocates help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take-from all of us, with whatever we have to offer-to create. If you haven't yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world-or see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it- this book is for you. If you haven't yet found your role in shaping this new world, or you're not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you. With grace, humor, and humanity, Ayana invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question, together: What if we get it right?"--

The extraordinary true story of a 7,000-mile wilderness walk from Calabria in Italy to the top of Norway, and a passionate quest to find belonging within the natural world.

Det kan være rigtig svært at forstå det der med regler, og det kan også være svært at gå tilbage, når man først har fået sagt noget forkert. Ny bog i billedbogsserien om Sille og de andre rødder Sille har faktisk ikke nogen fodbold, men det ville hun ønske, at hun havde. Men nu ville hun også ønske, at hun ikke var kommet til at sige, at hun havde en, for det føles lidt som at lyve, og det er til at få ondt i maven af. Indimellem er det svært at finde rundt i alle reg­lerne – og især er det svært, når nogle regler gælder for nogen, men ikke for alle. Det er til at blive helt forvirret af!

This is the story of the last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, as the species has fallen victim to poaching, wars, climate change, and Asian economic boom to become functionally extinct, as well as the story of the scientists and conservationists around the world fighting to save the species through scientific innovation.

Earth's climate is changing. This book investigates the scientific, environmental, social, political, and economic aspects of climate change. It enables students to reach an informed opinion and encourages active engagement in finding solutions.It begins with a strong introduction to the scientific factors that drive natural and anthropogenic climate change and expands over three chapters to explore the impact of greenhouse gases on the distribution of solar energy across land, sea, ice, and air. The author examines geologically ancient climates in order to highlight possible future scenarios, and case studies from around the world highlight the impact of climate change on the physical and human environment. The final chapters investigate how society can respond to the challenges of climate change and overcome the political, social, and economic factors that are barriers to progress, focusing on the role of energy policy, fiscal policy, and risk assessment as a means to stimulate discussion about science, society, and the role of the media. Science is the foundation of any solution, but to turn this knowledge into action requires the application of a broad set of skills that are rooted in the liberal arts experience such as critical thinking, analytical thinking, problem solving, and communication.This textbook will be an essential resource for students taking courses in environmental geography, climate change, natural hazards, climatology, and meteorology.