Böcker i Earthscan Reference Collections-serien

Covers the history of agriculture since its ancient origins. This title examines the relationship between agriculture and the environment including agricultural contamination, greenhouse gases and climate change, environmental improvements and sustainability, integrated farming, landscape restoration and environmental goods and services.

Brings together a series of papers fundamental to understanding the social, political, cultural and scientific dimensions of conservation. This title covers the historical development of conservation ideas and reviews the diverse contemporary philosophical, ethical, cultural and practical arguments for conservation.

Collects the papers that have been fundamental to the development of renewable energy as a defined discipline. This title includes coverage of the main renewable technologies, the fundamental principles by which they function, and the issues around their deployment such as planning, integration and socio-economic assessment.

Covers forest conservation, now recognized as crucial to the mitigation of climate change, and its overall implications for forest landscapes, as well as forest ecology and biodiversity conservation within forests.