Beyond Conservation

Author : Bram Buscher,Robert Fletcher
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781788737715

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The Conservation Revolution by Bram Buscher,Robert Fletcher Pdf

A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of the Anthropocene and the current ‘sixth extinction’ crisis demonstrate an urgent need and desire to move beyond mainstream approaches. Yet the conservation community is deeply divided over where to go from here. Some want to place ‘half earth’ into protected areas. Others want to move away from parks to focus on unexpected and ‘new’ natures. Many believe conservation requires full integration into capitalist production processes. Building a razor-sharp critique of current conservation proposals and their contradictions, Büscher and Fletcher argue that the Anthropocene challenge demands something bigger, better and bolder. Something truly revolutionary. They propose convivial conservation as the way forward. This approach goes beyond protected areas and faith in markets to incorporate the needs of humans and nonhumans within integrated and just landscapes. Theoretically astute and practically relevant, The Conservation Revolution offers a manifesto for conservation in the twenty-first century—a clarion call that cannot be ignored.

Author : Eva Keller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385530

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Beyond the Lens of Conservation by Eva Keller Pdf

The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss zoo, the centerpiece of which is a mini-rainforest replica. Does such a cooperation also trigger a connection between ordinary people in these two far-flung places? The study investigates how the Malagasy farmers living at the edge of the park perceive the conservation enterprise and what people in Switzerland see when looking towards Madagascar through the lens of the zoo exhibit. It crystallizes that the stories told in either place have almost nothing in common: one focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Thus, instead of building a bridge, Nature conservation widens the gap between people in the North and the South.

Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136571343

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Beyond Conservation by Peter Taylor Pdf

After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both managing existing wildlands in Britain and for expanding and connecting such lands. Central to this strategy is the imperative to 'rewild' or restore and repair damaged habitat and ecosystems, promote existing biodiversity and reintroduce vanished plant and animal species, while working to reconcile human needs and livelihoods and the needs of nature.

Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849770538

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Beyond Conservation by Peter Taylor Pdf

After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both managing existing wildlands in Britain and for expanding and connecting such lands. Central to this strategy is the imperative to 'rewild' or restore and repair damaged habitat and ecosystems, promote existing biodiversity and reintroduce vanished plant and animal species, while working to reconcile human needs and livelihoods and the needs of nature.

Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1137353342

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Beyond Conservation by Peter Taylor Pdf

After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both managing existing wildlands in Britain and for expanding and connecting such lands. Central to this strategy is the imperative to 'rewild' or restore and repair damaged habitat and ecosystems, promote existing biodiversity and reintroduce vanished plant and animal species, while working to reconcile human needs and livelihoods and the needs of nature.

Author : W. William Weeks
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 1597262706

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Beyond the Ark by W. William Weeks Pdf

In Beyond the Ark, W. William Weeks weaves together anecdotes, personal reflection, and fascinating detail from past and current Nature Conservancy projects to present a lively and inspiring introduction to issues of land conservation and management, and to The Nature Conservancy approach to conservation. This book is an insightful and illuminating overview of conservation and management issues. Featuring a wealth of practical information gleaned from a wide range of real-life projects, it provides invaluable guidance to all those working to protect our endangered natural resources.

Author : Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet,Helen Kopnina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317937289

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Culture and Conservation by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet,Helen Kopnina Pdf

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important, however, is the fact that we, as the species that causes extinctions, have a moral responsibility to those whose evolutionary unfolding and very future we threaten. This volume is an examination of the relationship between conservation and the social sciences, particularly anthropology. It calls for increased collaboration between anthropologists, conservationists and environmental scientists, and advocates for a shift towards an environmentally focused perspective that embraces not only cultural values and human rights, but also the intrinsic value and rights to life of nonhuman species. This book demonstrates that cultural and biological diversity are intimately interlinked, and equally threatened by the industrialism that endangers the planet's life-giving processes. The consideration of ecological data, as well as an expansion of ethics that embraces more than one species, is essential to a well-rounded understanding of the connections between human behavior and environmental wellbeing. This book gives students and researchers in anthropology, conservation, environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable insight into how innovative and intensive new interdisciplinary approaches, questions, ethics and subject pools can close the gap between culture and conservation.

Author : David N. Cole,Laurie Yung
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597269117

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Beyond Naturalness by David N. Cole,Laurie Yung Pdf

The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, pollution, invasive species, and climate change become both more pronounced and more pervasive? Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect park and wilderness values. The main conclusion is the idea that naturalness will continue to provide an important touchstone for protected area conservation, but that more specific goals and objectives are needed to guide stewardship. The issues considered in Beyond Naturalness are central not just to conservation of parks, but to many areas of ecological thinking—including the fields of conservation biology and ecological restoration—and represent the cutting edge of discussions of both values and practice in the twenty-first century. This bookoffers excellent writing and focus, along with remarkable clarity of thought on some of the difficult questions being raised in light of new and changing stressors such as global environmental climate change.

Author : D. G. Webster
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262534734

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Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries by D. G. Webster Pdf

An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the “management treadmill.” The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries management are not technical but political and economic. In this book, D. G. Webster describes how the political economy of fisheries has evolved and highlights patterns that are linked to sustainable transitions in specific fisheries. Grounded in the concept of responsive governance, Webster's interdisciplinary analysis goes beyond the conventional view of the "tragedy of the commons.” Using her Action Cycle/Structural Context framework, she maps long-running patterns that cycle between depletion and rebuilding in a process that she terms the management treadmill. Webster documents the management treadmill in settings that range from small coastal fishing communities to international fisheries that span entire oceans. She identifies the profit disconnect, in which economic incentives are out of sync with sustainable use, and the power disconnect, in which those who experience the costs of overexploitation are politically marginalized. She examines how these disconnects shaped the economics of expansion and documents how political systems failed to prevent related cycles of serial resource depletion. Webster also traces the increasing use of restrictive management in response to worsening fisheries crises and the emergence of new, noncommercial interests that demand greater management but also generate substantial conflict. She finds that the management treadmill is speeding up with population growth and economic development, and so concludes that sustainable fisheries can only exist within a sustainable global economic system.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Agricultural Conservation Program
ISBN : MINN:31951D03587157O

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Implementation of Conservation Programs--REAP and RECP by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices Pdf

Author : E. R. Tracy,A. J. Brizard,A. S. Richardson,A. N. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521768061

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Ray Tracing and Beyond by E. R. Tracy,A. J. Brizard,A. S. Richardson,A. N. Kaufman Pdf

This complete introduction to the use of modern ray tracing techniques in plasma physics describes the powerful mathematical methods generally applicable to vector wave equations in non-uniform media, and clearly demonstrates the application of these methods to simplify and solve important problems in plasma wave theory. Key analytical concepts are carefully introduced as needed, encouraging the development of a visual intuition for the underlying methodology, with more advanced mathematical concepts succinctly explained in the appendices, and supporting Matlab and Raycon code available online. Covering variational principles, covariant formulations, caustics, tunnelling, mode conversion, weak dissipation, wave emission from coherent sources, incoherent wave fields, and collective wave absorption and emission, all within an accessible framework using standard plasma physics notation, this is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in plasma physics.

Author : Humberto Blanco,Rattan Lal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031303418

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Soil Conservation and Management by Humberto Blanco,Rattan Lal Pdf

This updated and expanded second edition textbook, describes all main aspects of soil management, to address the serious problems of soil erosion and the attendant environmental pollution. The global high demands for food, fiber, feed, and fuel put a constant strain on the environment, which can only be mitigated by soil conservation. This edition incorporates new concepts and provides an up-to-date review of soil management principles and practices. The authors also added new chapters on cover crops, crop residues, soil water management, nutrient management, perennials in crop rotations and organic amendments. All practices have a clear perspective on addressing soil erosion, physical and chemical problems, carbon dynamics and sequestration as well as non-point source pollution. The restorative nature of many practices, also consider water conservation as a main pillar of sustaining a healthy soil. This textbook is valuable for students and professionals in soil science, agronomy, agricultural engineering, hydrology, and management of natural resources.

Author : Robyn Bushell,Paul F. J. Eagles
Publisher : CABI
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780851990224

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Tourism and Protected Areas by Robyn Bushell,Paul F. J. Eagles Pdf

Bringing together the diverse experiences of park agencies and managers, conservation NGO's and international agencies this book examines the role of tourism in protected area management. Using case studies from around the world it provides examples of successful partnerships between community, public and private sectors. It also explores how tourism can be used as a management tool for financing protected areas. It concludes by summarizing the lessons learnt and the challenges facing protected areas in the future.

Author : Timothy O'Riordan,Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521890527

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Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities by Timothy O'Riordan,Susanne Stoll-Kleemann Pdf

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Author : Arun Agrawal,Richard Chase Smith,Tania Li,Conservation & Development Forum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 0966238001

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Community in Conservation by Arun Agrawal,Richard Chase Smith,Tania Li,Conservation & Development Forum Pdf