Conservation Concepts

ISBN-13: 9781032169200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str.

Kurt Jax

Opis

This book provides a review of the multitude of conservation concepts, both from a scientific, philosophical and social science perspective.

Spis treści

1.     Introduction

2.     Situating conservation: definitions, origins, and context

3.     Analysing conservation concepts

4.     Western and non-Western ideas of nature and nature conservation

5.     Moving forward: which conservation concepts for which purposes?

6.     Conclusions and outlook

O autorze

Kurt Jax is Senior Scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, and Professor of Ecology at the TUM School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is the author of Ecosystem Functioning (2010).