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
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).