Averting Extinction: Reconstructing Endangered Species Recovery - Hardcover

Clark, Tim W.

 
9780300068474: Averting Extinction: Reconstructing Endangered Species Recovery
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300068476 ISBN 13: 9780300068474
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. In this book, Tim Clark tells the story of subsequent efforts to save the black-footed ferret, showing how it points up the necessity of finding new ways to conserve and restore species. According to Clark, the problems facing conservation are not fundamentally biological but stem from human systems - policy decisions, organizational priorities, and professional rivalries. The focus in conservation, he says, must shift from science to practical problem solving. Clark first describes and analyzes efforts to restore the black-footed ferret after 1981 and looks at the processes, people, institutions, and programs that were involved in that endeavour. Finding that the ferret case illustrates many things that go wrong in the implementation of complex environmental policy, Clark then proposes approaches to endangered species recovery. he gives guidelines for improving decision-making and development of policies; for devising organizational strategies and structures that will raise standards for performance and better meet society's needs. This policy-oriented approach, he contends, will open up new avenues, methods, and hope for species recovery.

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The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. In this book, Tim Clark tells the story of subsequent efforts to save the black-footed ferret, showing how it points up the necessity of finding new ways to conserve and restore species. According to Clark, the problems facing conservation are not fundamentally biological but stem from human systems - policy decisions, organizational priorities, and professional rivalries. The focus in conservation, he says, must shift from science to practical problem solving. Clark first describes and analyzes efforts to restore the black-footed ferret after 1981 and looks at the processes, people, institutions, and programs that were involved in that endeavour. Finding that the ferret case illustrates many things that go wrong in the implementation of complex environmental policy, Clark then proposes approaches to endangered species recovery. he gives guidelines for improving decision-making and development of policies; for devising organizational strategies and structures that will raise standards for performance and better meet society's needs. This policy-oriented approach, he contends, will open up new avenues, methods, and hope for species recovery.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300068476
ISBN 13 
9780300068474
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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