Our Company

To provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. Our greatest strength is our deep knowledge and appreciation of the interdisciplinary subjects that compose our core literature. We seek out innovative thinkers, ideas and practices that are informed by rigorous science and evidence based analysis. To our authors, we provide detailed editorial expertise to guide and shape their ideas. To our audiences, we provide new synthesis, policy concepts and management practices. We are building a knowledge base that can address today’s environmental problems while creating the framework for long-term ecological health and human wellbeing. Island Press delivers these ideas in multiple formats, including books, communication campaigns, symposia, and electronic media. As the methods of information delivery evolve, so will the way Island Press provides solutions and inspiration to policy makes, practitioners, scientists, students and activists.