Conservation
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2008
Book
1690 pages
978-1-84407-414-3 (ISBN)
Description
The thought-provoking articles in Conservation can assist in catalyzing the transition to a new green economy by shaping the mind-sets of leaders, students, teachers and the public alike.'
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
'An extremely useful compilation of articles on the complex issues underlying nature conservation.'
Ashish Kothari, Co-chair, IUCN Intercommission Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA)
'In this intelligently chosen, broadly ranging set of readings on conservation, Professor Adams assembles a set of vital readings for professionals, teachers, students, and the interested public.'
Kent Redford, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute
This 4-volume set, edited by a leading expert on nature conservation, brings together in one collection a series of papers fundamental to understanding the social, political, cultural and scientific dimensions of conservation. Each volume is introduced by a new review essay, which both sets the scope for the collection and advances analytical understanding of conservation issues.
Volume I covers the historical development of conservation ideas and reviews the diverse contemporary philosophical, ethical, cultural and practical arguments for conservation.
Volume II addresses the core issue of conservation: the maintenance of living diversity in the face of human demands on the biosphere. The intention here is not to offer a sourcebook of conservation science, but to include the key texts that have changed the way conservation is understood and practised.
Volume III explores the overlaps and conflicts between conservation and development, andwin-win solutions to conflicts between the two, including ideas of sustainable development.
Volume IV presents work on conservation as an essentially political process, drawing chiefly on social science and, in particular, political ecology and environmental history.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
'An extremely useful compilation of articles on the complex issues underlying nature conservation.'
Ashish Kothari, Co-chair, IUCN Intercommission Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA)
'In this intelligently chosen, broadly ranging set of readings on conservation, Professor Adams assembles a set of vital readings for professionals, teachers, students, and the interested public.'
Kent Redford, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute
This 4-volume set, edited by a leading expert on nature conservation, brings together in one collection a series of papers fundamental to understanding the social, political, cultural and scientific dimensions of conservation. Each volume is introduced by a new review essay, which both sets the scope for the collection and advances analytical understanding of conservation issues.
Volume I covers the historical development of conservation ideas and reviews the diverse contemporary philosophical, ethical, cultural and practical arguments for conservation.
Volume II addresses the core issue of conservation: the maintenance of living diversity in the face of human demands on the biosphere. The intention here is not to offer a sourcebook of conservation science, but to include the key texts that have changed the way conservation is understood and practised.
Volume III explores the overlaps and conflicts between conservation and development, andwin-win solutions to conflicts between the two, including ideas of sustainable development.
Volume IV presents work on conservation as an essentially political process, drawing chiefly on social science and, in particular, political ecology and environmental history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
3061 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84407-414-3 (9781844074143)
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William M. (Bill) Adams is the Moran Professor of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Senior Editor of Oryx: The International Journal of Conservation. He has written and edited numerous books on conservation, including Future Nature: A Vision for Conservation (now in its second edition), Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era (edited with Martin Mulligan) and Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation. His book Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World was first published in 1990 with its third edition published in 2008.
Content
Volume I: The Idea of Conservation
Editorial Introduction to Volume I
Part I: Western Ideas of Nature
1. Creating a Second Nature
2. The Origins of Environmentalism
3. Walking
4. The Hetch Hetchy Valley
5. A Fable for Tomorrow and the Obligation to Endure
Part II: Indigenous Ideas of Nature and Conservation
6. Animals
7. Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice
Part III: The Misuse of Nature
8. Destructiveness of Man and Human and Brute Action Compared
9. Principles of Conservation
10. The Former Abundance of Wildlife
11. The Round River
Part IV: Philosophies of Conservation
12. Ideas of Nature
13. The Cultural Approach to Conservation Biology
14. The Conservation Ethic
15. Definitions, Values and Philosophies
Part V: Wilderness and Countryside
16. Thinking Like a Mountain
17. The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
18. The Making of an Ideal
Part VI: Protecting Nature
19. Perspectives
20. The Carbon Connection
Index
Volume II: The Conservation of Diversity
Editorial Introduction to Volume II
Part I: Biodiversity and Biodiversity Loss
1. The Vulnerable Earth: Toward a Planetary History
2. Biodiversity Threatened
3. Human domination of Earth's ecosystems
Part II: Understanding Change in Nature
4. Anecdotes and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome of Fisheries
5. What is Natural? The Need for a Long-term Perspective in Biodiversity Conservation
6. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives
Part III: Ecology and Conservation
7. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms
8. Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
9. Pyromancy: Reading Stories in the Flames
Part IV: Conservation Planning
10. Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities
11. The Global 200: A Representation Approach to Conserving the Earth's Most Biologically Valuable Ecoregions
12. Mapping the Conservation Landscape
13. Systematic Conservation Planning
Part V: Managing Species and Spaces
14. Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management
15. Directions in Conservation Biology
16. The Island Dilemma: Lessons of Modern Biogeographic Studies for the Design of Natural Reserves
17. A Regional Landscape Approach to Maintain Diversity
18. Effectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity
Part VI: Conservation Management and Restoration
19. Biological Invasions: Winning the Science Battles but Losing the Conservation War?
20. Restoration Ecology: Repairing the Earth's Ecosystems in the New Millennium
Index
Volume III: Conservation and Development
Editorial Introduction to Volume III
Part I: Conservation and Sustainable Development
1. The Land Ethic
2. Towards Sustainable Development
3. Conservation of Biodiversity in a World of Use
4. Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty
Part II: Sustainability and Wild Harvests
5. Fishing Down Marine Food Webs
6. Having Your Wildlife and Eating It Too: An Analysis of Hunting Sustainability Across Tropical Ecosystems
7. Requiem for the Grand Banks
Part III: Institutions and Environmental Management
8. The Struggle to Govern the Commons
9. Human Ecology and Resource Sustainability: The Importance of Institutional Diversity
10. People, Livelihoods and Collective Action in Biodiversity Management
Part IV: Economics and Conservation
11. The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value
12. Who Should Pay for Tropical Conservation, and How Could the Costs Be Met?
13. Direct Payments to Conserve Biodiversity
Part V: Community and Conservation
14. If Community Conservation is the Answer, What is the Question?
15. Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
16. The Background to Community-based Conservation
17. Planning for People and Parks: Design Dilemmas
18. The Future of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Building on What Works
19. Sustainable Use and Incentive-driven Conservation: Realigning Human and Conservation Interests
Index
Volume IV: The Politics of Conservation
Editorial Introduction to Volume IV
Part I: The State, Conservation and Protected Areas
1. Nature and Space
2. Nature-State-Territory: Towards a Critical Theorization of Conservation Enclosures
3. The Environmental Challenge to the Nation-State: Superparks and National Parks Policy in Zimbabwe
4. Coercing Conservation? The Politics of State Resource Control
Part II: Science, Knowledge and the Politics of Conservation
5. Deliberative Democracy and Participatory Biodiversity
6. Environmentality: Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India
7. Non-governmental Organizations and Governmentality: 'Consuming' Biodiversity and Indigenous People in the Philippines
8. Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rainforest
9. The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-politics
10.The 'Wild', the Market and the Native: Indigenous People Face New Forms of Global Colonization
11. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
Part III: The Social Impacts of Protected Areas
12. Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
13. Farewell Song
14. Displacement and Relocation from Protected Areas: Towards a Biological and Historical Synthesis
15. The Winding Road: Incorporating Social Justice and Human Rights into Protected Areas Policies
16. Political Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation
Part IV: Conservation Futures
17. Love it Or Lose it: The Coming Biophilia Revolution
18. Nature Matrix: Reconnecting People and Nature
19. Society With Nature
20. Optimism and Hope in a Hotter Time
Index
Editorial Introduction to Volume I
Part I: Western Ideas of Nature
1. Creating a Second Nature
2. The Origins of Environmentalism
3. Walking
4. The Hetch Hetchy Valley
5. A Fable for Tomorrow and the Obligation to Endure
Part II: Indigenous Ideas of Nature and Conservation
6. Animals
7. Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice
Part III: The Misuse of Nature
8. Destructiveness of Man and Human and Brute Action Compared
9. Principles of Conservation
10. The Former Abundance of Wildlife
11. The Round River
Part IV: Philosophies of Conservation
12. Ideas of Nature
13. The Cultural Approach to Conservation Biology
14. The Conservation Ethic
15. Definitions, Values and Philosophies
Part V: Wilderness and Countryside
16. Thinking Like a Mountain
17. The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
18. The Making of an Ideal
Part VI: Protecting Nature
19. Perspectives
20. The Carbon Connection
Index
Volume II: The Conservation of Diversity
Editorial Introduction to Volume II
Part I: Biodiversity and Biodiversity Loss
1. The Vulnerable Earth: Toward a Planetary History
2. Biodiversity Threatened
3. Human domination of Earth's ecosystems
Part II: Understanding Change in Nature
4. Anecdotes and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome of Fisheries
5. What is Natural? The Need for a Long-term Perspective in Biodiversity Conservation
6. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives
Part III: Ecology and Conservation
7. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms
8. Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
9. Pyromancy: Reading Stories in the Flames
Part IV: Conservation Planning
10. Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities
11. The Global 200: A Representation Approach to Conserving the Earth's Most Biologically Valuable Ecoregions
12. Mapping the Conservation Landscape
13. Systematic Conservation Planning
Part V: Managing Species and Spaces
14. Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management
15. Directions in Conservation Biology
16. The Island Dilemma: Lessons of Modern Biogeographic Studies for the Design of Natural Reserves
17. A Regional Landscape Approach to Maintain Diversity
18. Effectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity
Part VI: Conservation Management and Restoration
19. Biological Invasions: Winning the Science Battles but Losing the Conservation War?
20. Restoration Ecology: Repairing the Earth's Ecosystems in the New Millennium
Index
Volume III: Conservation and Development
Editorial Introduction to Volume III
Part I: Conservation and Sustainable Development
1. The Land Ethic
2. Towards Sustainable Development
3. Conservation of Biodiversity in a World of Use
4. Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty
Part II: Sustainability and Wild Harvests
5. Fishing Down Marine Food Webs
6. Having Your Wildlife and Eating It Too: An Analysis of Hunting Sustainability Across Tropical Ecosystems
7. Requiem for the Grand Banks
Part III: Institutions and Environmental Management
8. The Struggle to Govern the Commons
9. Human Ecology and Resource Sustainability: The Importance of Institutional Diversity
10. People, Livelihoods and Collective Action in Biodiversity Management
Part IV: Economics and Conservation
11. The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value
12. Who Should Pay for Tropical Conservation, and How Could the Costs Be Met?
13. Direct Payments to Conserve Biodiversity
Part V: Community and Conservation
14. If Community Conservation is the Answer, What is the Question?
15. Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
16. The Background to Community-based Conservation
17. Planning for People and Parks: Design Dilemmas
18. The Future of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Building on What Works
19. Sustainable Use and Incentive-driven Conservation: Realigning Human and Conservation Interests
Index
Volume IV: The Politics of Conservation
Editorial Introduction to Volume IV
Part I: The State, Conservation and Protected Areas
1. Nature and Space
2. Nature-State-Territory: Towards a Critical Theorization of Conservation Enclosures
3. The Environmental Challenge to the Nation-State: Superparks and National Parks Policy in Zimbabwe
4. Coercing Conservation? The Politics of State Resource Control
Part II: Science, Knowledge and the Politics of Conservation
5. Deliberative Democracy and Participatory Biodiversity
6. Environmentality: Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India
7. Non-governmental Organizations and Governmentality: 'Consuming' Biodiversity and Indigenous People in the Philippines
8. Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rainforest
9. The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-politics
10.The 'Wild', the Market and the Native: Indigenous People Face New Forms of Global Colonization
11. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
Part III: The Social Impacts of Protected Areas
12. Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
13. Farewell Song
14. Displacement and Relocation from Protected Areas: Towards a Biological and Historical Synthesis
15. The Winding Road: Incorporating Social Justice and Human Rights into Protected Areas Policies
16. Political Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation
Part IV: Conservation Futures
17. Love it Or Lose it: The Coming Biophilia Revolution
18. Nature Matrix: Reconnecting People and Nature
19. Society With Nature
20. Optimism and Hope in a Hotter Time
Index