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The age of loneliness : essays / by Marris, Laura,1987-author.(CARDINAL)590928;
Includes bibliographical references(pages 187-213)."In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closest to us? Filled with equal parts alienation and wonder, each essay immerses readers in a different strange landscape of the Eremocene. Among them are the Buffalo airport with its snowy owls and the purgatories of commuter flights, layovers, and long-distance relationships; a life-size model city built solely for self-driving cars; the coasts of New England and the ever-evolving relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs; and the Connecticut woods Marris revisits for the first time after her father's death, where she participates in the annual Christmas Bird Count and encounters presence and absence in turn."--
Subjects: Essays.; Loneliness.; Extinction (Biology); Ecosystem health.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Emperors of the deep : sharks--the ocean's most mysterious, most misunderstood, and most important guardians / by McKeever, William,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320).A deep dive into the misunderstood world of sharks that will forever change your perception of them.
Subjects: Informational works.; Marine ecosystem health.; Sharks.; Sharks; Sharks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The atlas of disappearing places : our coasts and oceans in the climate crisis / by Conklin, Christina,author.; Psaros, Marina,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Changing chemistry -- Kure Atoll, Hawai'i: plastic, plastic everywhere -- The Arabian Sea: regime shift -- Camden, Maine: salt, fat, acid, (no) meat -- The Cook Islands: feeding the fever -- San Francisco Bay: seven-layer dip -- Part II: Strengthening storms -- Houston: we have a problem -- Hamburg, Germany: river city at risk -- New York, New York: capital of capital -- San Juan, Puerto Rico: Poder, Despacito -- Kutupalong Camp, Bangladesh: human tides -- Part III: Warming waters -- The Arctic Ocean: when the ice melts -- Pisco, Peru: Enso and the end of fish -- The North Atlantic: in deep -- Kisite, Kenya: coral collapse -- Pine Island Glacier: what happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica -- Part IV: Rising seas -- Shanghai, China: sink, sank, sunk -- Hampton Roads, Virginia: bye, bye, birdies -- Ben Tre, Vietnam: doing more with less -- The Thames Estuary, Britain: from Gravesend to Allhallows -- Ise, Japan: tradition for the future -- What's next? / by Marina Psaros -- Toward transilience / by Christina Conklin."A heavily illustrated book and narrative about the threat of rising sea levels around the world"--
Subjects: Coast changes.; Coastal ecosystem health.; Marine ecosystem health.; Marine pollution.; Ocean temperature.; Sea level.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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Ecosystem management : imperative for a dynamic world / by United States.Environmental Protection Agency.Ecological Processes and Effects Committee(CARDINAL)284326;
Includes bibliographical references (pages R-1).
Subjects: Ecosystem management.; Environmental health; Health risk assessment;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Emperors of the deep : sharks -- the ocean's most mysterious, most misunderstood, and most important guardians / by McKeever, William,author.(CARDINAL)784680;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311)."In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks -- magnificent creatures who play an integral part in maintaining the health of the world's oceans and ultimately the planet. From the Jaws blockbusters to Shark Week, we are conditioned to see sharks as terrifying cold-blooded underwater predators. But as Safeguard the Seasfounder William McKeever reveals, sharks are evolutionary marvels essential to maintaining a balanced ecosystem. We can learn much from sharks, he argues, and our knowledge about them continues to grow. The first book to reveal in full the hidden lives of sharks, Emperors of the Deep examines four species -- Mako, Tiger, Hammerhead, and Great White -- as never before, and includes fascinating details such as: Sharks are 50-million years older than trees; Sharks have survived five extinction level events, including the one that killed off the dinosaurs; Sharks have electroreception, a sixth-sense that lets them pick up on electric fields generated by living things; Sharks can dive 4,000 feet below the surface; Sharks account for only 6 human fatalities per year, while humans kill 100 million sharks per year. McKeever goes back through time to probe the shark's pre-historic secrets and how it has become the world's most feared and most misunderstood predator, and takes us on a pulse-pounding tour around the world and deep under the water's surface, from the frigid waters of the Arctic Circle to the coral reefs of the tropical Central Pacific, to see sharks up close in their natural habitat. He also interviews ecologists, conservationists, and world-renowned shark experts, including the founders of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, the head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, and the self-professed "last great shark hunter." At once a deep-dive into the misunderstood world of sharks and an urgent call to protect them, Emperors of the Deep celebrates this wild species that hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the ocean -- if we can prevent their extinction from climate change and human hunters." --Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Informational works.; Sharks.; Sharks; Sharks; Marine ecosystem health.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Medicine wheel for the planet : a journey toward personal and ecological healing / by Grenz, Jennifer, author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: My shelhsteelt (pivotal moment) : from ecologist to land healer -- The power of stories -- The missing puzzle piece : the Indigenous worldview -- Listening to the relations of the land -- The unravelling of protectionism -- It's time for the time of the eagle -- Bringing ceremony to science : lessons in the weeds -- Finding ecological balance with the language of the land healers -- Forest gardens, webwork, and ecological leadership -- Living in reciprocity with the land in a modern world -- Ye'yumnuts, my teacher -- Storytelling to connect us all -- Heal the land, heal myself -- Making the old new again : a call to action from the frogs."Building on sacred stories and field observations, Dr. Jennifer Grenz shares her personal journey of joining her head (Western science) and her heart (Indigenous worldview) to find a truer path toward ecological healing. Eloquent, inspiring, and disruptive, Medicine Wheel for the Planet circles around an argument that we need more than a singular worldview to protect the planet and make the significant changes we are running out of time for"--
Subjects: Traditional ecological knowledge; Global environmental change; Ecosystem health;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Green equilibrium : the vital balance of humans & nature / by Wills, Christopher.(CARDINAL)515663;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.How ecosystems work -- Maintaining a green equilibrium -- Stewardship and its perils -- The challenge of restoration ecology -- Catastrophes of the past -- A blending of genetic equilibria -- Ex-Africa semper aliquid novi -- Blending and balance in our gene pool -- The intertwined histories of humans and their ecosystems -- Learning from our history -- Green equilibria and the origin of our pretty good brains -- Green equilibrium is more than a metaphor -- L'Envoi.In this work, the author, a field biologist explains the rules by which ecosystems thrive, shining light on a set of ecological balancing acts that he calls "green equilibria," rules which keep our world vibrant, verdant, and ecologically intact. To explain the idea of "green equilibrium," he draws on a range of examples, including coral reefs off the densely populated Philippines, the isolated and thickly forested valleys of Papua New Guinea, the changing Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and a Californian ranch being allowed to return to a wild state. He travels to Guyana's rainforests and savannahs, for instance, to provide startling vignettes of ecological processes in action. Among other topics, he highlights the snake-head mimicry that swallowtail caterpillars use to scare off predators, the symbiotic relationship between the exceedingly rare Golden Poison-Dart Frog and the tank bromeliad plant, and the invisible world of pathogens and parasites that helps to drive diversity. All these mechanisms, and many more, maintain the "green equilibria" of Guyana's rainforest ecosystems. The author also shows how "green equilibria" have shaped the evolution and history of our own species. We now know that a kind of genetic "green equilibrium" helped populations adapt to changing environmental conditions as they spread out of Africa. Striking new evidence indicates that some modern human populations still carry genes from past hominids (such as the Neanderthals) as well as genetic adaptations to local hazards such as malaria. Traveling to many different ecosystems, from coral reefs to the high Himalayas, and drawing on his own on-the-ground research, the author illuminates ecological laws in action. Perhaps most important, he introduces us to people, in many countries around the world, who are now using this new knowledge to help heal the planet.
Subjects: Biotic communities.; Ecology.; Ecosystem health.; Ecosystem management.; Human beings; Nature;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Swimming with the current : a guide to help local governments protect aquatic ecosystems while streamlining environmental review / by North Carolina.Department of Environment and Natural Resources.(CARDINAL)221886; North Carolina.Department of Transportation.(CARDINAL)145570; North Carolina.Office of Environmental Education.(CARDINAL)210116; North Carolina Natural Heritage Program.(CARDINAL)170708; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.(CARDINAL)149691; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.(CARDINAL)138186;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Ecosystem health.; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental protection.; Environmental responsibility.; Water quality.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Future sea : how to rescue and protect the world's oceans / by Wright, Deborah Rowan,author.(CARDINAL)839568;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Back-to-front world -- The laws of life -- Teeming seas -- The free sea -- Theory to reality -- Counteroffensive -- Worrying about the wrong stuff -- The silver bullet? -- The power of many small changes -- Finding like minds."Rather than continue to focus on discrete, geographically bounded bodies of water, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Wright urges a Plan Sea, which reimagines the oceans as the continuous ecosystem it is, not disconnected buckets of salt and plankton. This book proposes that the global marine environment be protected under the precautionary principle. It argues that the policy framework for such protection already exists -- it just needs to be enforced. In a series of case studies, with first-person vignettes woven throughout, Wright encourages us to begin every conversation about ocean policy with the assumption that any extractive or polluting activities in the world's oceans should require special permission. Her argument invokes the Public Trust Doctrine already embedded in many constitutions, and hinges on the Law of the Sea, which was established by the U.N. in 1982 to protect the "high seas," or the remote parts of the ocean considered international waters. To some, Wright's plan may seem idealistic, but its audacity might also be seen as a welcome nudge to our collective imagination. Many scientists are convinced that ocean ecosystems are on the brink of collapse -- there's something to be said, then, for a book that's radical enough to unlock new thinking about what might be possible, and maybe necessary, in terms of their protection"--
Subjects: Marine ecosystem health.; Marine habitat conservation; Marine habitat conservation;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The flow : rivers, water and wildness / by Beer, Amy-Jane,author.(CARDINAL)319279;
Includes bibliographical references and index."On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration. The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation. Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature." --
Subjects: Nonfiction novels.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Rivers; Nature; Ecosystem health.; Beer, Amy-Jane;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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