The social dimension : ethics, policy, law, management, development, economics, education
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The social dimension : ethics, policy, law, management, development, economics, education
（Readings from Conservation biology）
Society for Conservation Biology , Blackwell Science, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-[236])
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Description
This series of readings from "Conservation Biology" gives easy access to papers published in a range of important fields. This book about the social dimension of conservation biology can make course preparation easy - a ready-made collection of representative papers available in a format students can use. Readings should also be useful for researchers and academics needing an update in a specific area. All the disciplines that contribute to the study and preservation of species and habitats are represented in the series: population genetics, systematics, wildlife biology, ecosystems ecology, landscape ecology, economics, conservation management and environmental ethics.
Table of Contents
- Values and perceptions of invertebrates
- forest-dwelling native Amazonians and the conservation of biodiversity - interests in common or in collision?
- indigenous peoples and conservation, Alcorn
- on common ground? - response to Alcorn
- indigenous reserves and nature conservation in Amazonian forests
- scientists as advocates - the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and gill-netting in Central California
- the Sweetwater rattlesnake round-up - a case study in environmental ethics
- the Olympic goat controversy - a perspective, Scheffer
- response to Scheffer, Anunsen and Anunsen
- reply to the Anunsens, Scheffer
- assessing extinction threats - towards a re-evaluation of IUCN-threatened species categories
- extant until proven extinct? - or extinct until proven extant?
- extant unless proven extinct - the international legal precedent
- what exactly is an endangered species? - an analysis of the US endangered species list 1985-1991
- habitat protection under the Endangered Species Act
- six biological reasons why the Endangered Species Act doesn't work - and what to do about it
- response to "Six biological reasons why the Endangered Species Act doesn't work and what to do about it", O'Connell
- response to O'Connell, Rohlf
- rejoinder to Rohlf and O'Connell - biodiversity as a regulatory criterion
- re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act
- biological integrity and the goal of environmental legislation - lessons for conservation biology
- the question of management
- techno-arrogance and halfway technologies - salmon hatcheries on the Pacific coast of North America
- "costs" and short-term survivorship of hornless black rhinos
- lion-human conflict in the Gir forest, India
- ecotourism - new partners, new relationships
- the limits to caring - sustainable living and the loss of biodiversity
- limits to caring - a response, Holdgate and Munro
- "believing what you know ain't so" - response to Holdgate and Munro
- natural capital and sustainable development
- water, endangered fishes and development perspectives in arid lands of Mexico
- Brazilian crocodilian tears
- livestock breeds and their conservation - a global overview
- can extractive reserves save the rain forests? - an ecological and socioeconomic comparison of non-timber forest product extraction systems in Peten, Guatemala and West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- assessing the economic value of traditional medicines from tropical rain forests
- the role of foreign debt in deforestation in Latin America
- financial considerations of reserve design in countries with high primate densities
- cheese, tourists and red pandas in the Nepal Himalayas
- the virtue of conservation education
- biological diversity, agriculture and the liberal arts
- professionalism and the human prospect
- architecture as pedagogy
- for the love of life.
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