Foundations of environmental sustainability : the coevolution of science and policy
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Foundations of environmental sustainability : the coevolution of science and policy
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental destruction taking place around the world and of the specter of climate change. The devastation of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina illustrates the potential for
disaster when climate change is combined with the mismanaged environmental policy. How did we get tot his point? What has been done and what can be done to avoid future environmental disasters? Thirty-two contributing chapter authors (among them, one of the principal drafters of the National
Environmental Policy Act, Chief of the African Environment Division and the World Bank, Vice President of the Center for Conservation Innovation at the World Wildlife Fund, President of the Zoological Society of London, former President of the Ecological Society of America) use their unique, authoritative perspective to review the evolution of environmental science and policy in the past half century.
Each author describes the evolution of environmental science and policy in the past half century and consider the challenges of the future. Although the authors of this book come from various fields, they have followed paths that have generally converged on the concept of sustainability. This book attempts to define what sustainability is, how we can achieve it, and what the prospects for sustainability in the future are.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Environmental Movement in the United States
- 2. International Environmental Policy: Some Recollections and Reflections
- 3. The Global 2000 Report and Its Aftermath
- 4. Sustainable Conservation: Can It Be Done?
- 5. Conservation of Sensitve Biodiversity Areas
- 6. Protected Areas: Science, Policy and Management to Meet the Challenges of Global Change in the 21st century
- 7. Ecological and Intellectual Baselines: Saving Lions, Tigers and Rhinos in Asia
- 8. Observations on Trends and Issues in Global Conservation
- 9. Half Century of American Range Ecology and Management: A Retrospective,
- 10. Policy Failures in African Rangeland Development
- 11. The Role of Science and Scientists in Changing Forest Service Management Relative to Sustainability
- 12. Sustainable Use of Marine Living Resources: Notion or Myth?
- 13. Marine Mammal Conservation
- 14. Marine Wildlife Policy: Underlying Ideologies
- 15. Overcoming Barriers to Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development, Leif E. Christoffersen
- 16. The Global Challenge of Sustainable Development
- 17. Biodiversity Conservation in the Real World: Incentives Disincentives and Disconnects
- 18. Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century
- 19. Conservation and Development: The Nam Theun 2 Dam Project in Laos
- 20. A Biocultural Basis for an Ethic toward the Natural Environment
- 21. International Environmental Legal Instruments
- 22. The Evolution of Sustainability in Forest Management Policy
- 23. The Future of Ecology and the Ecology of the Future
- 24. A New Environmentalism: Conservation and the Core of Governmental Purpose
- 25. Climate Change and Prospects for Sustainability
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