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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      14 March 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511804298
      9780521782708
      9780521788120
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804298
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.871kg, 444 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.748kg, 444 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Conservation
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    Conserving Living Natural Resources is an introductory textbook for students of conservation biology and resource management. It presents the historical and conceptual contexts of three seminal approaches to the management of living natural resources: utilitarian management for harvest of featured species and control of unwanted species, protection and restoration of populations and habitats to maintain biodiversity, and management of complex ecosystems to sustain both productivity and biodiversity. The book shows how the first two approaches were grounded in the belief that nature is 'in balance' and that people are outsiders, and then goes on to show how the 'flux-of-nature' paradigm suggests new strategies for conservation grounded in a view of nature as dynamic, and people as participants in the natural world. Rather than endorsing a single approach as the only correct one, this book investigates the historical and philosophical contexts, conceptual frameworks, principal techniques, and the limitations of each approach.

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    '… I enjoyed the book and I would certainly recommend it as an introductory text to US students, and perhaps to other students wanting a general introduction to US resource management.'

    Andrew Pullin - University of Birmingham

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