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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS To see a hare sit still as stone to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning to witness a hare bolt these are great things Every field should have a hare The hare a night creature and country dweller is a rare sight for most people We know them only from legends and stories They are shape shifters witches familiars and symbols of fertility They are arrogant as in Aesop s The Hare and the Tortoise and absurd as in Lewis Carroll s Mad March Hare In the absence of observed facts speculation and fantasy have flourished But real hares What are they like In The Private Life of the Hare John Lewis Stempel explores myths history and the reality of the hare And in vivid elegant prose he celebrates how in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever

A transformative book that opens hearts and minds to the unseen wonders of Ireland s natural world as it invites us to exchange eco overwhelm for a Wild Embrace

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READS Woodlands Awards 2019 Woodland Books of the Year The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth It is the lynch pin of the British landscape The oak is our most beloved and most common tree It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain Many of our ancestors the Angles the Saxons the Norse came to the British Isles in longships made of oak For centuries the oak touched every part of a Briton s life from cradle to coffin It was oak that made the wooden walls of Nelson s navy and the navy that allowed Britain to rule the world Even in the digital Apple age the real oak has resonance the word speaks of fortitude antiquity pastoralism The Glorious Life of the Oak explores our long relationship with this iconic tree it considers the life cycle of the oak the flora and fauna that depend on the oak the oak as medicine food and drink where Britain s mightiest oaks can be found and it tells of oak stories from folklore myth and legend

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places ghost towns and exclusion zones no man s lands and fortress islands and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place In Chernobyl following the nuclear disaster only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes On an uninhabited Scottish island feral cattle live entirely wild In Detroit once America s fourth largest city entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods This book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live or survive in tiny precarious numbers to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankind s impact on nature is forced to stop From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland Flyn brings together some of the most desolate eerie ravaged and polluted areas in the world and shows how against all odds they o

An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles Britain and Ireland are home to around 300 species of rare flowering plants and many more rare ferns mosses liverworts and freshwater algae These are species at the cutting edge of biodiversity fascinating often beautiful and in decline Yet as some teeter on the brink more rare species are still being discovered In Rare Plants prize winning author Peter Marren describes the allure of Britain and Ireland s vanishing wild flora from the simple joy of plant hunting to the wonder and sometimes weirdness of the plants themselves as well as their important place in our landscape and culture He also explores the condition of rarity in the context of our changing world and climate why do plants become rare what threats do they face and what opportunities do we have to protect them before it is too late The book concludes with an overview of different conservation techniques using test cases such as Lady s Slipper Orchid and Starved Wood sedge and asks at what point careful management becomes gardening and how far we are justified in intervening in the life of a wild species Illustrated with around 300 colour images by some of our best plant phot

A thrilling exploration of nature s symbiotic relationships some comforting and familiar others wildly alien by the award winning author of Forget Me Not What can nature teach us about living together Investigating eight symbiotic relationships trying to survive the climate and biodiversity crises Sophie Pavelle explains why it has never been more vital for us to understand symbiosis Symbiotic relationships regulate ecosystems strengthen resilience and bind pivotal connections Species living together in symbiosis is no accident these dynamics evolved Species form and sever alliances everywhere from deep within temperate rainforests to the open ocean quiet tidal pools or chalk grasslands and nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque and as bizarre as they are engrossing In To Have or To Hold Sophie relishes the interconnectedness between species and celebrates the relationships that underpin natural environments Low carbon travelling around the British Isles she presents nature s frauds fortune tellers misfits and cheaters The natural world is built on parasitism a cunning blend of bargaining and exploitation in the name of survival In our relationship with the natural world are we the parasites Will we continue to expl

How to describe the ecstatic song of larks How the writers and poets have tried Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside Their music is the quintessential sound of spring The spirit of English pastoralism they inspire poets composers and farmers alike In the trenches of World War I they were a reminder of the chattering meadows of home Perhaps you were up with the lark or as happy as one History has seen us poeticise and musicise the bird but also capture and eat them We watch as they climb the sky delight in their joyful singing and yet we harm them too The Soaring life of the Lark explores the music and poetry the breath taking heights and struggle to survive of one of Britain s most iconic songbirds PRAISE FOR JOHN LEWIS STEMPEL Britain s finest living nature writer The Times Lewis Stempel is a fourth generation farmer gifted with an extraordinary ability to write prose that soars and sings Daily Mail

Es previo aclarar, qué es lo que se debe entender por crisis. Una palabra que ha llegado a ser polisémica. Se aplica abusivamente a toda dificultad; sea del género que sea; así significa todo y nada. Se puede llegar a la idea de que estamos en crisis permEs previo aclarar, qué es lo que se debe entender por crisis. Una palabra que ha llegado a ser polisémica. Se aplica abusivamente a toda dificultad; sea del género que sea; así significa todo y nada. Se puede llegar a la idea de que estamos en crisis permanente; lo que viene a ser sinonimo de que nunca faltan problemas. No es este el sentido que tiene la actual crisis rural; aunque la sociedad rural este ahita de ellos.En su pristino significado la palabra ''crisis'' es un concepto medico; y se refiere al estado particular de una enfermedad en la que el paciente esta en una situacion en la que puede tener un desenlace fatal o superarla. En este sentido tiene el caracter de algo crucial por completo. Aplicada a la sociedad rural quiere decir, que esta abocada a un trance dubitativo, que lo mismo puede entrar en decadencia, que salvarse ella; pero nunca continuando en la situacion precedente. Supone siempre un ''cambio estructural''.Desde este punto de vista la ''economia agraria'' de España, base de la vida rural, esta amenazada desde 1986, con la incorporacion a...

Nos presenta los SIG raster y el tratamiento digital de imágenes en la resolución de problemas medioambientales y territoriales; los SIG MiraMon e IDRISI; una breve descripción de los espacios geográficos a utilizar en la realizacion de los ejercicios practicos; estudios de capacidad e impacto ambiental; tratamiento de la informacion en un Modelo Digital de Elevaciones (MDE).El libro nos propone una serie de ejercicios practicos a realizar y nos ofrece la solucion de los ejercicios planteados.

Cada botella de vino de Burdeos guarda un secreto. No es un misterio de ingredientes ocultos ni de fórmulas ancestrales, sino la narrativa silenciosa de un lugar: su terroir. Para el aficionado y el experto por igual, esta palabra francesa resuena con un eco que va mas alla de la mera geografia. Es la confluencia magica de suelo, clima, paisaje y la mano del hombre, una sinfonia de elementos que, en Burdeos, alcanza una de sus expresiones mas sublimes y complejas.

A medida que crece la preocupación por los costos ambientales y las implicaciones éticas de la agricultura intensiva, un número cada vez mayor de personas adoptan dietas y estilos de vida libres de p

El análisis de las políticas públicas constituye un campo poco explorado en España. Más aún, ciertas políticas, como la de protección del medio ambiente, no han sido nunca objeto sistemático de investigacion. Por ello, El reto del medio ambiente. Conflictos e intereses en la politica medioambiental europea, contribuye de forma pionera a llenar un vacio clave dentro de las ciencias sociales. La originalidad del trabajo de Susana Aguilar Fernandez radica ademas en el estudio que realiza sobre la Union Europea como organizacion que constriñe la libertad de actuacion de los estados-nacion y favorece los procesos de transmision de practicas politicas entre los mismos. Asimismo, el libro desvela el caracter de las relaciones entre los gobiernos y los empresarios industriales en la politica medioambiental de España y Alemania y se cierra con una reflexion sobre los movimientos ecologistas en ambos paises.

El deterioro acelerado del medio ambiente en las últimas décadas ha ido confiriendo cada vez mayor interés a la ecología, nacida como ciencia en 1866. El objetivo de este Atlas de Ecología es proporcionar una visión ordenada tanto de los fundamentos de la ecología (ecología general), como de casos concretos (ecología espacial), así como de sus métodos de investigación. Al igual que en los demás títulos de esta colección, la suma del texto y gráficos en color aporta una visión general y sintética de esta joven ciencia, sirviendo como obra introductoria o libro de consulta. Como apéndice, se incluye un cuadro cronológico donde se mencionan todas las catástrofes ecológicas acontecidas en la historia de la Humanidad. Además, en esta edición se ha incorporado una selección bibliográfica en castellano organizada por temas.

La obra valora la incidencia medioambiental de los cultivos intensivos en el sector, con especial atención a la contaminación por nitratos de las aguas subterráneas.