Integrating Conservation, Development and Research
Scientific Responses to the Environment-development Challenge
Published in December 1999
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-85070-571-0 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook on environmental science examines conservation in the context of the challenge of developmental and environmental issues in a globalized world. The first part is on context and concepts; the second part is on institutional challenges and concerted scientific responses. Individual chapters cover political and economic concerns, ethnoecology, regional development, sustainable development, public education, biodiversity conservation, the biosphere concept and the interface between agriculture and ecology.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85070-571-0 (9781850705710)
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Content
Part 1 Context and concepts: facing the fractured global order - shifting political contexts, changing patterns of world economic independence; ethnoecology - the blending of multiple perspectives of the natural world; landscape ecology and regional development; sustainable development and the urban issue; information on environment and development - towards an educated public and informed decision-making. Part 2 Institutional challenges and concerted scientific responses: the challenge of development and environment in a globalized world; can institutions still adapt?; incentives and disincentives underpinning and undermining sustainable development and biodiversity conservation; reconciling conservation and development - insights from Mananara-Nord, Madagascar; Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (Quebec), laboratory region for sustainable development; putting the biosphere reserve concept into practice - the Mexican experience; the international network of biosphere reserves - narrowing the gap between reality and potential; research at the interface between agriculture and ecology - lessons and insights from the tropical soil biology and fertility programme; getting to know more about biological diversity - the Diversitas initiative.