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Conservation efforts are often seen to be in conflict with local livelihoods and resource use - the 'park versus people' debate. 'Responsible tourism' and 'Ecotourism' are often invoked as a third way that serve both ends. This title presents an examination of what works and what fails, using information from scholars working in the region.

*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*'Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale' Independent'It offers real, rich hope' Observer, Books of the YearWe still have time to change the world. From the world's leading climate activist, this is the essential book for making it happen.Created by Greta Thunberg in partnership with over 100 climate experts working around the globe, with her commentaries throughout and updates for this new paperback edition to reflect the latest research, The Climate Book equips us with knowledge, and gives us hope. Together, it shows, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.

"Hörst du die Pflanzen, Ella?", fragte Oma.Seit wann konnten denn Pflanzen bitte sprechen? Doch dann hörte Ella sie wirklich. Und sie hatten viel zu erzählen ...Ella lebt in einer großen Stadt. Laut ist es da. Und immer muss sie auf die Autos auf den Straßen aufpassen. Umso mehr freut Ella sich, als sie endlich wieder ihre geliebte Oma besuchen darf. Dort, auf dem Dorf, gibt es so viel zu entdecken. Eines Tages sprechen plötzlich die Pflanzen zu ihr. Sie berichten von den Heilkräften der Natur. Und tatsächlich, als Ella Schmerzen hat, helfen ihr all die Blumen, Kräuter und Bäume sehr gern.Dieses liebevoll illustrierte Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahren lehrt auf verständliche, einfühlsame Art viel Wissen über die Heilkräfte der wilden Pflanzen und deren Geheimnisse und lädt zum Selbersammeln ein.

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children's book author and illustratorHave you ever watched a cloud being born?Clouds come in all manner of shapes and sizes, from low-lying Stratus to high-flying Cirrus via roll clouds, banner clouds and tornados. This beautifully illustrated guide reveals the facts, secrets and stories of all the major cloud types, and how they shape the weather around them. We learn their fancy Latin names, explore the parts of the sky where they like to hang out, marvel at the ways they play with sunlight - and even visit them on other planets, where they are sometimes made of acid.Cloudspotting for Beginners will inspire curious minds with a lifelong sense of meteorological wonder.

This book focuses on regions for which until now the geomorphology was very poorly studied and relatively unknown. Nevertheless, the landforms and landscapes of the Horn of Africa are highly attractive, diverse and in a few cases unique, since they span very different environments, from highland plateaus and mountains to lowlands (even below sea level) and coastlines with a high degree of diversity and from monsoon to arid climate conditions.  The main topics addressed in the book include the links between the geological evolution and the current large scale geomorphology of the Horn of Africa; the large differences between the highlands and lowlands climate, river hydrology and their variation through time within a climate change perspective. This part of the world was home of the very first hominids. The landscape in which they lived and evolved throughout the Pleistocene is described in comparison with the arid and inhospitable, though immensely scenic, environment of today. Perennial and ephemeral rivers with very different morphology, processes, and hydrology drain the area, and, in combination with the past and recent uplift, substantially contributed to provide the region with peculiar landscapes and landforms. Long lasting weathering and erosion processes result in a typical inselberg landscape such as the Bur region, or the currently exposed flatland of old peneplain surfaces. Their changes through time, induced by both natural and anthropogenic factors, are addressed by a couple of case studies. Though the region has few inhabitants, they had to struggle to find their livelihood in a land that offers poor resources. This resulted in landscape change and land degradation. Examples of human impact on the landscape are presented at different scales.  This book provides readers interested in geography and geomorphology with essential scientific and educational information on the Landscapes and Landforms of Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia through simple, though scientifically, rigorous texts illustrated with several color maps and photos. One main prerogative of this book is therefore to give an insight into a region of the world where, for geographical and historical constraints, geomorphological investigation was very limited, thus enriching its intrinsic informative value.

This book discusses plant invasions and environmental impacts on the Himalayas through a novel procedure, and helps to understand the influences of climate, physiography, soil, and disturbance on plant richness in mountain systems. Assessing invasion risks to mountain space under future climate change scenarios is highly significant for appropriate preparedness, and this book details analytical and modeling techniques to assess the conditions of mountain ecosystem and ecology to better inform our preparation for future environmental challenges. The book presents the state-of-the-art understanding of the species-environment relationships in a global biodiversity hotspot, relatively unexplored areas for the Himalayan life-form richness. The book provides not only the academic but also the professional community and policymakers a review and update on modeling applications for determining interactions of the plant species with the environment of a subtropical mountain ecosystem across a climatic gradient. Currently, there is no book in the market addressing the implementation and applications of modeling in the Himalayan plant and environment continuum, and most of the existing books cover the species richness pattern along the elevation gradient and basic ethnobotanical features of a mountain system. Since the book covers the applications of novel methods and modeling for ecological analysis of mountain ecosystems, it will also be significant for the professional market. Therefore, the book aims to fill the gap between scientists and professionals in the use of modeling strategies to monitor biodiversity in mountain systems for the formulation of conservation, adaptation, and mitigation principles.

Inhalt LuchseVorwort; Einleitung; Wie fotografiert man wilde Luchse?; Ausrottung und Wiederansiedlung; Forschunug und Fallen; Jungluchse; Wildkameras; Begegnungen; Verkehrsopfer; Waisenluchse; Andere Tiere des Harzes; Nutztierrisse; Das Luchsgehege; Der Luchs- Aussehen und Biologie; DanksagungInhalt HarzlandschaftDer Harz; Der Nationalpark Harz; Der Oderteich; Sankt Andreasberg; Nationalpark Außenstelle Oderhaus; Der Wolfshagener Steinbruch; Die Annabrücke; Harzflüsse; Rabenklippe und Brocken; Die Eckerstaumauer; Die Rappbodetalsperre

This book explains how to make your birdwatching more enjoyable, fulfilling and worthwhile. Illustrated throughout with the author's sketches and fieldnotes, this is a call to

"A distinguished geologist and a popular science writer Charles Frankel turns his attention in his latest book to the mass extinctions on our planet, considering what the past can tell us about the future. Explaining Earth's past mass extinctions, Frankel suggests that, each time, a decrease in biodiversity created fragile conditions that eventuated into widespread and cataclysmic disappearances. The rise of mammals led to the rise of humans, who, over the past 200,000 years, have become their own geological force, forever affecting the bio-environment, from the massacre of megafauna in the Ice Age to the impoverishment of soils and pollution of waterways and air, to the unwitting transfer of invasive species from one part of the globe to another. After a compelling account of the latest research, Frankel ends with speculations on planetary peril and whether the widespread extinctions, climate change, and loss of biodiversity that we are currently experiencing can be slowed or even reversed. His answer inspires hope and urgency. If humans can redirect and curb some of our basic behaviors (like the obsession to kill and consume other species), we might stand a chance. Still, he eloquently explains that, even if we succeed in this, our way of life and even some of our ways of being human will be transformed forever. As extinction repeatedly shows those who survive, life is not eternal"--

Starting from concrete examples in Geomorphology, this comprehensive textbook explains to graduate and postgraduate students, point-cloud data technology and associated methods from acquisition to final-product generation. In the last few decades, Geo-sciences have experienced a paradigm shift from the challenge of collecting enough data to the need of creating new processing tools that can handle the billions of data. This shift has come to Geomorphology with the increasing use of surface-pointclouds obtained from photogrammetry, laser scanners and processed by specialist software, and it is thus necessary for the next generation of geomorphologist to be fluent in these technologies. Consequently, this book explains from concrete examples how to use pointcloud technologies, from data collection to processing and final product generation. The philosophy of this book relies on two principles, first: you do not have to be a tech-wizard to use pointcloud technologies, allowing the you to bring back the focus on your science; second pointcloud methods can be affordable, therefore the book provide a set of worked-examples in the different geomorphological environments using open source software and R and Python code samples. The book can be used as a textbook in a geomorphology, geology, physical geography, Sabo-sciences and engineering class, as well as a companion for the more seasoned scientist who wants to solve specific problems.

Pflanzen sind ein Teil der Antwort auf die Frage, wie wir dem Klimawandel begegnen können: Pflanzen, die auch unter widrigsten Bedingungen gedeihen, die Wetterextremen trotzen, die Böden verbessern, vor Erosion schützen, Kohlendioxid binden und dabei voller ursprünglicher Nährstoffe stecken. Sie werden immer wichtiger, um die globale Ernährungssicherheit zu gewährleisten. Dieses Buch stellt 70 essbare Pflanzen aus aller Welt vor, bekannte und kaum bekannte - wie den Brotfruchtbaum, der nahrhafte Früchte hervorbringt, den Indischen Spinat, der auch in sehr heißen Regionen gedeiht, oder den rasch wachsenden Chinesischen Surenbaum, dessen junge Blätter nach Rindfleisch schmecken. Die mit farbenprächtigen Illustrationen bebilderten Pflanzenprofile machen dieses Kompendium zu einer einzigartigen Inspirationsquelle: Mit diesen 70 essbaren Pflanzen ist auch ein Universum köstlicher Aromen und wahrer Superfoods zu entdecken.

Wie viel Widerstand ist erlaubt, um unseren Lebensraum zu schützen? Und wem gehört die Natur? Fragen, die angesichts von Klimakrise und Artensterben Brisanz haben. Der World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ist in Österreich vor 60 Jahren erstmals gegen die Zerstörung der Umwelt angetreten und ist heute die größte Naturschutzorganisation des Landes.Dieses Buch zeigt wichtige Initiativen für den Schutz von Seeadler, Luchs oder Wolf und erzählt die Geschichte dieser Pionierbewegung: Von den ersten Aktionen rund um den Neusiedler See über die Besetzung der Hainburger Au oder den Kampf gegen das Kraftwerk im Tiroler Kaunertal bis hin zur Errichtung des Biosphärenparks Mur-Drau-Donau. Und es feiert jene Naturparadiese und Nationalparks, für die es sich einst gelohnt hat, Widerstand zu leisten.

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject' PETER FRANKOPAN'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM HOLLAND'This book dazzles in its originality . . . a triumph' SATHNAM SANGHERAIn 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred feet of rock. Over the next two decades, as several more of these 'impossible monsters' emerged from the soil, the leading scientists of the day were forced to confront a profoundly disturbing possibility: the Bible, as a historical account of the Earth's origins, was wildly wrong.This is the dramatic story of the crisis that engulfed science and religion when we discovered the dinosaurs. It takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women who made these heretical discoveries, those who resisted them, as well as the pioneering thinkers, Darwin most famous among them, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth's and mankind's origins.Impossible Monsters is the riveting story of a group of people who not only thought impossible things but showed them to be true. In the process they overturned the literal reading of the Bible, liberated science from the authority of religion and ushered in the secular age.'Truly marvellous ... an intellectual thriller' RICHARD HOLMES'A stunning work ... of surprises and revelations' STEVE BRUSATTE*An Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Bloomberg and Waterstones Book of the Year 2024*

Einfach den Korb schnappen, raus an die frische Luft, leuchtende Beeren und saftige Kräuter sammeln und dann daraus ein leckeres Abendessen, einen überraschenden Cocktail oder den Lieblingstee zubereiten: Wildes Essen macht richtig Spaß. Sarah Maria Klamm hat für dieses Buch die besten Rezepte ihres beliebten Instagram-Accounts @erdretter mit wilden Kräutern, Früchten und Wurzeln zusammengestellt und entführt uns in eine leckere Welt direkt vor der eigenen Haustür.In einem ausführlichen Basisteil erklärt sie außerdem, wo man gut sammeln kann, was am Wegesrand essbar ist, welche Ausstattung beim Sammeln und Haltbarmachen hilft, und verrät ihre besten Tipps und Tricks.Über 90 Rezepte rund ums Jahr: Egal, was du von Januar bis Dezember vor deiner Haustür Essbares findest, Sarah hat ein passendes Rezept dafür - von deftiger Brennnesselsuppe bis Lindenblütentee, von Efeuwaschmittel bis Rosencocktail.Nie wieder Pflanzen verwechseln: Die ausführlichen Pflanzenporträts mit Bildern zeigen dir, was es wo zu entdecken gibt, und helfen bei Verwechslungsgefahr.Haltbar machen wie ein Profi: Hier findest du alle Basics und Anleitungen zum Einkochen, Trocknen, In-Öl-Einlegen, In-Essig-oder-Likör-Verwandeln und Blanchieren.