Singapore: NUS Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. This book takes an indepth look at how Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity has influenced the economic, political, social and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century. Grounding the story... More about Nature contained: environmental histories of Singapore
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, line drawings, maps. The vision of a garden shared peacefully by humans and animals is a familiar but elusive idea. Whether threatened by habitat destruction or climate change, displaced by urbanization or invasive species, poisoned by industrial toxins, or... More about Designing wildlife habitats
Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes - from public parks to back gardens - to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the... More about Principles of ecological landscape design
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a.... More about Nature all around us: a guide to urban ecology
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human... More about Nature's wealth: the economics of ecosystem services and poverty
New York: John Wiley and Sons, (2014. second edition]. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps, diagrams. As pressures on Australia's inland waters intensify due to population growth, expanding resource development and climate change, there is an urgent need to manage and protect these areas. Understanding their ecology... More about Australian freshwater ecology: processes and management
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast... More about Killing the Koala and poisoning the prairie: Australia, America, and the environment
Perth: Department of Environment and Conservation (WA), 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Over half of the Western Australian rangelands are classed as being in poor or fair condition after years of grazing pressure. This book addresses the political, economic and social issues that need to be overcome before a.... More about Rescuing the rangelands: management strategies for restoration and conservation of the natural...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, graphs, tables. Presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological... More about Climate change and the course of global history: a rough journey
Paterson: Department of Primary Industries, (2014. second edition). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. Leaving your land in better condition than you received it is the aim of environmental management. This book helps you understand the basics before you get into more detailed studies. More about Principles of ecology
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. As global demand for forest products increases, conserving biodiversity has become more urgent and challenging. This book advocates adaptive management - a structured approach to learning by doing - to sustain biodiversity in managed forests. It... More about Forestry and biodiversity: learning how to sustain biodiversity
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and urban sprawl. It is also one of the most vulnerable regions likely to suffer from the adverse impacts of climate... More about Responding to climate change: lessons from an Australian hotspot
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. Over the past decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward and upward with an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050. With so much growth, planners and policymakers... More about Planning Melbourne: lessons for a sustainable city
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, other illustrations, map. Here, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to simple yet profoundly important questions such as how does life work? How does nature produce the right... More about The Serengeti rules: the quest to discover how life works and why it matters
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. "Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate. In this saline odyssey, Clive Chatters has explored his favourite creeks, pools and mudflats to bring us an absorbing celebration of the... More about Saltmarsh
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy dustwrapper. Clark first describes and analyzes efforts to restore the black-footed ferret after 1981 and looks at the processes, people, institutions, and programs that were involved in the endevour. Clark then looks at fresh approaches to endangered species recovery. More about Averting extinction: reconstructing endangered species recovery
Washington DC: Island Press, (2013. second edition). Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Originally published in 2007, this text has become one of the seminal books in this quickly developing field. This completely revised and reorganised edition presents up-to-date developments and current trends in the field by... More about Ecological restoration: principles, values, and structure of an emerging profession
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Hardback. black and white illustrations. Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become... More about Dispersal ecology and evolution
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding... More about Dispersal ecology and evolution
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, tables and graphs. Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms, and regulates the delivery of ecosystem... More about Forests and global change
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Resilience is a word used more and more across societies worldwide as decision makers realise that predicting and controlling the future does not work and that preparing for uncertainty and surprise is necessary. As Australia moves into a millennium that promises major economic... More about Resilience and transformation: preparing Australia for uncertain futures
Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance evolutionary biology and played a pivotal role in founding... More about We are amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the future of our species
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, maps. Every year, pilots and their aircraft come into direct contact with birds and other wildlife, resulting in more than one billion dollars in damage per year. The United States Federal Aviation Administration has recorded a rise... More about Wildlife in airport environments: preventing animal-aircraft collisions through science-based...
Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Presents a new context for understanding rarity and its implications, both for our understanding of how the natural world works and for what it can teach us about protecting biodiversity during a time of large-scale environmental change. Using cutting-edge... More about The kingdom of rarities: the story of America's eastern national forests
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps, tables, graphs. Provides a clear, balanced and well documented account of one of the most important issues of our time. It covers developments in climate science over the past 250 years and shows that recent climate change is more than... More about A short introduction to climate change