'Retire? You can't retire!', Sir David Attenborough told John Bartram, when the man who has been gamekeeper and senior wildlife officer for Richmond Park for the past thirty years announced his intention to step away from the role, bidding farewell to the iconic park which has been his home and way of life for so long.

Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing

First published in 1997, the story of a great Atlantic storm from the accounts of individual fishing boats, their families waiting anxiously for their return and the rescue services scrambled to save them. High pressure from the Great Lakes, storm winds over Sable Island and a Hurricane from the Caribbean combine to produce the Perfect Storm.

Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability brings into focus the powerful and still evolving permaculture concept David Holmgren pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s, taking a step-by-step look at the 12 Permaculture Concepts.

Serves as a reminder of what needs to be done - and what can be done - to keep Planet Earth alive.

Award-winning historian Michael D. Bess writes in vivid prose, drawing on illustrative historical examples. Eleven fictional vignettes describe concrete scenarios for future approaches to confronting the top four mega-dangers facing humankind. This book offers the general reader an exciting combination of breadth, rigor, and accessibility.

The climate emergency and other dramatic environmental changes pose growing threats to the health of humanity, and have defined a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. This book explains those threats, and explores many solutions that can promote better health and reduce the environmental impacts of humanity on our planet.

A gardening guide to encourage more birdlife to your green spaces

"Guardian" columnist the author is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. After her father's death, wanting to understand him better, she began to explore his passionate, lifelong attachment to a small plot of land in North Yorkshire. This title uncovers traces of the plot's Neolithic inhabitants and of the Cistercian monks.

An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book brings together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to help you become one of those leaders. It is suitable for those in or aspiring to sustainability-literate leadership.

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development.

This work provides students with easy-to-read guidance on fieldwork, sampling, laboratory studies, project work, and computing and communication skills. Text is supported by numerous illustrations and tables, and there is coverage of the necessary information technology.

* Fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to soil science. * Covers all aspects of soil science including soil habitat, processes in the soil environment and soil management. * Emphasizes the applications of soil science to the solution of practical problems in soil and land management.

This volume is intended as an introductory textbook for students of enviromental science, biology and ecology courses. It addresses first principles and current day concerns, to provide students with a grounding in environmental toxicology. This text complements the "Principles of Ecotoxicology".

THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER 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 . They are arrogant, as in Aesop's The Hare and the Tortoise, and absurd, as in Lewis Carroll's Mad March Hare.

Project Sunshine reveals for the first time how cutting-edge science can use the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people.

Reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us, but a key part of our own identity too. In this book, the author explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.