Earth Day 2019
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Cambridge University Press is delighted to support Earth Day 2019 which is now in its 49th year, taking place on the 22nd April.
This year focuses on protecting our species. The unprecedented global destruction and rapid reduction of plant and wildlife populations are directly linked to causes driven by human activity: climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, trafficking and poaching, unsustainable agriculture, pollution and pesticides to name a few. The impacts are far reaching.
If we do not act now, extinction may be humanity’s most enduring legacy
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(Full content available until 30th April 2019)
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Cambridge Core Blog
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Biodiversity, multi-level governance and policy implementation in Europe: a comparative analysis at the subnational level
- 03 April 2024,
- International efforts to protect biodiversity date back to the 1970s in the form of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and regional legal instruments like...
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Bird Conservation International – Evolving with the times
- 13 January 2023,
- 2023 is set to be another landmark year for the journal, as a new contract between BirdLife International and Cambridge University Press coincides with a move...
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Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?
- 07 November 2022,
- Cameroon has pledged to restore over a quarter of its land or 12,062,800 ha, Guatemala has pledged over 10% of its land for restoration with 1.2 million ha,...
Free access to the Modern American History Forum: Discovering the Environment
1584 Blog
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Can Regulatory Shaming Save the Planet?
- 22 April 2024,
- Imagine if the government ranked banks according to their investments in the oil and gas industries or rated and labelled food and clothing companies based The post Can Regulatory Shaming Save the Planet? first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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The Truth About Energy is the truth about change.
- 08 March 2024,
- A quick Internet search reveals various Truth About books: on nutrition, cancer, Covid, vinyl records, lies, …, to name a few. But whose truth should we believe, The post The Truth About Energy is the truth about change. first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Exploring the Three P’s of Conservation: Products, Protection, and Processes
- 23 November 2023,
- Conservation in the Context of a Changing World: Concepts, Strategies, and Evidence Many issues in contemporary conservation provoke strong responses. Rewilding, The post Exploring the Three P’s of Conservation: Products, Protection, and Processes first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....