Against Extinction: The Story of ConservationEarthscan, 2013 - 328 páginas 'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why.'Bulletin of British Ecological Society Against Extinction tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire in London in 1903 to the huge and diverse international movement of the present day. It vividly portrays conservation's legacy of big game hunting, the battles for the establishment of national parks, the global importance of species conservation and debates over the sustai. |
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The Challenge of Nature | 1 |
Good Hunting | 18 |
The Global Conservation Regime | 43 |
Nature in Its Place | 66 |
Poachers to Partners | 101 |
Two by Two | 125 |
The Demands of Development | 153 |
Trading Nature | 181 |
Conservations Plan | 203 |
Society with Nature | 226 |
Notes | 241 |
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Conservation and Sustainable Use: A Handbook of Techniques E.J. Milner-Gulland,J. Marcus Rowcliffe No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, Ecologies Steve Hinchliffe Vista previa restringida - 2007 |