The proposed book focuses on one of the most important issues affecting humankind in this century -Peak Oil or the declining availability of abundant, cheap energy and its effects on our industrialized economy andwildlife conservation. Energy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st Century directly affecting wildlife conservation wherever energy extraction is a primary economic activity and indirectly through deepening economic recessions. Since cheap, abundant energy has been at the core of our industrial society, and has resulted in the technological advancements we enjoy today, the...