Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation

ISBN-13: 9781844070565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 311 str.

William Mark Adams

Opis

The story of conservation from its origins in 1903, when the Society for the Preservation of Wild Fauna of the Empire was founded in London, to the present day, in which it has become a huge international enterprise. Yet, it is not simply an account of what happened, but rather, why it happened. The book explores the big questions and ideas that have driven conservation for a century. How can the diversity of life be maintained as human demands upon the planet expand, seemingly without end? How can we reconcile preservation with human rights and the development needs of the poor? Is conservation something which needs to be imposed on people, or is it only something which emerges from people's free choice?

Spis treści

Foreword by the Earl of Cranbrook, President, Fauna & Flora International  Preface  The Challenge of Nature  Good Hunting  The Global Conservation Regime  Nature in Its Place  Poachers to Partners  Two by Two  The Demands of Development  Trading Nature  Conservation's Plan  Society with Nature

O autorze

Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is editor of Decolonizing Nature: strategies for conservation in a postcolonial era and author of Future Nature: a vision for conservation.