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Conservation for the twenty-first century, edited by David Western, Mary C. Pearl

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Conservation for the twenty-first century, edited by David Western, Mary C. Pearl
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Bibliography: p. 325-353
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Conservation for the twenty-first century
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
18135725548511
Responsibility statement
edited by David Western, Mary C. Pearl
Table Of Contents
Conservation : the next hundred years / Edward O. Wilson -- Population, resources, and environment in the twenty-first century / David Western -- Demographics and socioeconomics : the people factor / Tarzie Vittachi -- Conservation biology / David Western -- Overview of recent extinctions / Jared Diamond -- A major extinction spasm : predictable and inevitable? / Norman Myers -- Extinction on islands : man as a catastrophe / Storrs L. Olson -- Introduced animals and extinctions / Ian Atkinson -- The problems of conserving genes and species / David S. Woodruff -- Population genetics and conservation / Robert C. Vrijenhoek -- Conservation : a consideration of evolution, population, and life history / John F. Eisenberg and Larry D. HarrisEcosystems and conservation in the twenty-first century / S.J. McNaughton -- Diversity and stability in ecosystem conservation / Brian Walker -- Why manage nature? / David Western -- Changing concepts of national parks / David Hales -- An optimal parks system / Alvaro F. Ugalde -- Protected areas and human ecology : how national parks can contribute to sustaining societies of the twenty-first century / Jeffrey A. McNeely -- Conservation without parks : wildlife in the rural landscape / David Western -- Enhanced linkages : necessary steps for success in conservation of faunal diversity / Larry D. Harris and John F. Eisenberg -- Conservation in cultural landscapes / Bryn H. GreenThe prospects for sustaining species and their evolution / William G. Conway -- Reconstructing ecosystems / Mark R. Stanley Price -- The human side of conservation / Mary C. Pearl -- An overview of conservation and human values : are conservation goals merely cultural attitudes? / Eugene C. Hargrove -- Biology without conservation : an environmental misfit and contradiction in terms / Holmes Rolston III -- The cultural approach to conservation biology / Bryan G. Norton -- Hard times for diversity / David Ehrenfeld -- Overview : a planner's perspective / Perez Olindo -- A national perspective / Arturo Tarak -- International perspective in conservation planning / Reuben J. Olembo -- Conservation legislation in the century ahead / Michael J. BeanHow the developed world can promote conservation in emerging nations / Mary C. Pearl -- Conservation in a world in search of a future / James A. Lee -- American broadcast journalism : its coverage of conservation crises / Lester Crystal -- Conservation biology in the twenty-first century : summary and outlook / Michael E. Soule -- An agenda for conservation action / David Western ... [et al.]
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Conservation for the 21st century
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