Description
This 4-volume set, edited by a leading expert on nature conservation, brings together in one collection a series of papers fundamental to understanding the social, political, cultural and scientific dimensions of conservation. Each volume is introduced by a new review essay, which both sets the scope for the collection and advances analytical understanding of conservation issues. Volume I covers the historical development of conservation ideas and reviews the diverse contemporary philosophical, ethical, cultural and practical arguments for conservation. Volume II addresses the core issue of conservation: the maintenance of living diversity in the face of human demands on the biosphere. The intention here is not to offer a sourcebook of conservation science, but to include the key texts that have changed the way conservation is understood and practised. Volume III explores the overlaps and conflicts between conservation and development, and ‘win-win’ solutions to conflicts between the two, including ideas of sustainable development. Volume IV presents work on conservation as an essentially political process, drawing chiefly on social science and, in particular, political ecology and environmental history. Volume I: The Idea of Conservation * Field Overview * Volume Introduction * Part I: Nature, Culture, Society * Part II: Wilderness and Wildness * Part III: Landscape and Conservation * Part IV: The Development of Conservation Ideas * Volume II: The Conservation of Diversity * Volume Introduction * Part I: Biodiversity * Part II: Ecological Dynamics and Conservation * Part III: Species Conservation * Part IV: Landscape Scale Conservation * Part V: Conservation and Restoration * Volume III: Conservation and Development * Volume Introduction * Part I: The Human Claim on Nature * Part II: Poverty, Conservation and Development * Part III: Hunting * Part IV: Making Use Sustainable * Volume IV: The Politics of Conservation * Volume Introduction * Part I: State, Land, Nature * Part II: The Costs of Conservation * Part III: Conservation and Power * Part IV: Participation and Conservation
