Future Nature : A Vision for Conservation

ISBN-13: 9781853839986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 294 str.

William Mark Adams; W. M. Adams

Opis

In this updated edition, the author analyses the problems that conservation faces and seeks the new ideas and energy that it needs for the future. Concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability, and changes in our understanding, appreciation and concern for nature and culture are tightly intertwined, as are those between economics and the countryside. Adams explores these links and the scientific, cultural and economic significance of conservation. He argues that conservation must move beyond the boundaries of parks and reserves to embrace the whole countryside, and that it must be built into ordinary life, not isolated as a specialized product kept only in reserved places.

Spis treści

Foreword: Future Nature Revisited * Introduction to the Revised Edition * Finding Nature * Constructing Conservation * Nature Lost * Conservation and the Global Village * Culture and the Countryside * Making Nature * Nature and the Wild * the Conservation Landscape * Nature, Landscapes, Lives * Releasing the Wild * Postscript * Notes and References * Further Reading * List of Abbreviations * Index

O autorze

Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, an editor of Decolonizing Nature: strategies for conservation in a post-colonial era (Earthscan, 2002) and the author of Green Development: environment and sustainability in the Third World.