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Conservation RefugeesMark DowieBooks |
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A Primer of Conservation Biology, Fourth EditionRichard B. PrimackConservation |
A Primer of Conservation Biology, Fourth Edition A Primer of Conservation Biology, Fourth Edition incorporates background, theory, and examples in a lively and readable text that will appeal to a wide audience and stimulate interest in conservation biology. The book provides the most up-to-date perspective on many high-profile issues in the field, such as sustainable development, global warming, payments for ecosystem services, and strategies to save species on the verge of extinction. The Primer is divided into nine chapters, focusing successively on biological diversity and its value, the threats to biological diversity, conservation at the population and species levels, protecting, managing and restoring ecosystems, and sustainable development. The book provides many examples of successful conservation approaches, such as one involving sea turtles in Brazil, and ends with suggestions for a future agenda. Throughout, the choice of examples is well balanced to show the full range of species, habitats, and geographic areas of the world. These examples are also selected to demonstrate the controversies in the field, and stimulate th... |
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Saving the Earth as a Career Malcolm L. Hunter Jr.
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The fight for conservationGifford PinchotBooks |
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The Science For Conservators SeriesThe Conservation Unit Museums and Galleries CommissionBooks |
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Natural Resource Conservation Daniel D. Chiras
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Rewilding the WorldCaroline FraserBooks |
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Getting His GoatHal BrindleyKindle Store |
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Conservation Treatment MethodologyBarbara AppelbaumBooks |
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Conservation readerHarold Wellman FairbanksBooks |
Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven't done their intellectual homework, he contends, and they have failed to offer an understandable, compelling vision of healthy lands and healthy human communities. Freyfogle explores why the conservation movement has responded ineffectually to the many cultural and economic criticisms leveled against it. He addresses the meaning of good land use, describes the many shortcomings of "sustainability," and outlines six key tasks that the cause must address. Among these is the crafting of an overall goal and a vision of responsible private ownership. The book concludes with a stirring message that situates conservation within America's story of itself and with an extensive annotated bibliography of conservation's most valuable voices and texts—im... |
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Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain GroundProfessor Eric T. FreyfogleConservation |
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The Atlas of Global Conservation Jonathan Hoekstra
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