Island Press

Island Press was established in 1984 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan publisher, based in Washington, DC, specializing in natural history , ecology, and conservation. It publishes 40 new books a year, aimed both at popular and scientific audiences.

Authors and editors affiliated with Island Press include leading thinkers such as E. O. Wilson, Paul Ehrlich, Donald Kennedy, Gretchen Daily, Joseph J. Romm, Bruce Babbitt or Philip Shabecoff. Titles of note include Cities in the Wilderness, The World’s Water, Research Priorities for Conservation Biology, Defying Ocean's End, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Lives Per Gallon, High Tech Trash, Faith in a Seed, The Hype about Hydrogen and Naturalist. Island Press has been at the forefront of the ecosystem-based management and ecosystem services movements by publishing the earliest texts in each of these fields, with 1996’s The Forgotten Pollinators and 1997’s Nature’s Services.

Sponsorship

Island Press is governed by a 16-member Board of Directors comprising representatives from the scientific, philanthropic, academic, and conservation communities. It has been funded through a combination of individual philanthropic investment and grants from foundations such as Packard, Ford, Moore, Hewlett, Tides, and Joyce. About half of its revenue is generated through sales, and half from the sponsoring organizations.

Island Press has collaborated with organizations such as the Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Land, the Land Trust Alliance, the Society for Conservation Biology, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, environmental programs at leading American universities, and many others. It is the U.S. distributor for the IUCN [1] and CSIRO [2]

External links

• Island Press - web site