Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation

When a group of liberal arts students embark on a university assignment about the natural environment, no one could have quite prepared them for the bewildering array of questions and provocations to confront them in their task. What starts out as an earnest attempt to understand nature in the modern world, turns into a philosophical and practical tangle that only a good transdisciplinary education can provide. Can anyone save the day and actually start to value ‘nature’? And if they can’t, then what’s stopping them? 
The idea of ‘valuing nature’ harmonises diverse areas of natural resource management and is an important dimension of scientific and practical work concerned with managing ecosystems and habitats for sustainability. This graphic book takes the reader on an exploration of the issues that arise from this growing interest and concern in the valuation of nature. 
Set around the premise of a ‘motley’ group of undergraduates endeavouring to complete a university assignment on ‘nature in the modern world’, the book explores: the many and diverse meanings people assign to nature the different ways the relationship between people and nature might be characterised the many values systems people hold for the natural world the options and approaches society can deploy to manage it the extent to which we need entirely new economic systems to protect and sustain nature. 
This highly interdisciplinary book invites consideration of a range of philosophical and applied debates and questions. Written in an accessible style, it is an ideal undergraduate text in the fields of ecology, human and physical geography, conservation science, environment, social science and spatial planning, as well as a general primer for graduate natural and social scientists embarking on interdisciplinary research in the natural resource management arena.

Science & Math

Fish, Robert

McKelvey, Holly

Biological Sciences

CRC-Press

Haystacks, Silent Movies and Outdoor Privys relates comical and heartwarming stories of life in a small midwestern village in the good old days, told through the eyes of a young boy."The Fishes of Franklin Grove" is a story of grandparents-their families and their life together for better or for worse, and includes photographs from a bygone era."Letter from Grandpa" is intended to provide stories of good examples to follow and bad ones to avoid.

Village Life: A Trilogy-Stories of Boyhood and Grandparents

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

iUniverse

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental managers, and many institutions are now developing teaching programmes to equip the next generation with the skills needed to apply the concepts more effectively. This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Collectively the chapters, written by the world's leading authorities, demonstrate the importance of biodiversity for people, policy and practice. They also show how the value of ecosystems to society can be expressed in monetary and non-monetary terms, so that the environment can be better taken into account in decision making. The significance of the ecosystem service paradigm is that it helps us redefine and better communicate the relationships between people and nature. It is shown how these are essential to resolving challenges such as sustainable development and poverty reduction, and the creation of a green economy in developing and developed world contexts.

Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

Business & Money

Haines-Young, Roy

Turner, R. Kerry

Economics

Routledge

A new guidebook series to inns, hotels and resorts that welcome you and your pet.

Pets Welcome : A Guide to Hotels, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: California Edition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Fish, Kathleen DeVanna

Gardening & Landscape Design

Bon Vivant Pr

A regional guidebook to inns, hotels and resorts that welcome you and your pet.

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: America 's South Edition (Pets Welcome Southwest: A Guide to Hotel's, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet)

Travel

Reference

This fourth book in the highly successful Pets Welcome series--the only such books endorsed by the Humane Society of the United States--expands the horizons to which four-legged travelers and their two-legged companions can travel in comfort and style.

Pets Welcome New England and New York Edition: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet

Fish, Kathleen

Pets & Animal Care

This third book in the highly successful series--the only such books endorsed by the Humane Society of the United States--continues to emphasize the good life with your pet as an integral part of that lifestyle.

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: Pacific Northwest Edition

Four Paws Pr

This fifth book in the series concentrates on the Southwestern area of our great country—Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: Southwest Edition

Thousands of readers--and the Humane Society of The United States--have come to depend on the Pets Welcome series for the most dependable information on the best, most pet friendly places for you and your four-footed friend to stay when vacationing throughout the United States.

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet

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Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation

Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation

Village Life: A Trilogy-Stories of Boyhood and Grandparents

Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

Pets Welcome : A Guide to Hotels, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: California Edition

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: America 's South Edition (Pets Welcome Southwest: A Guide to Hotel's, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet)

Pets Welcome New England and New York Edition: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: Pacific Northwest Edition

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns, and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet: Southwest Edition

Pets Welcome: A Guide to Hotels, Inns and Resorts That Welcome You and Your Pet