Shepherding Nature: The Challenge of Conservation Reliance

J. Michael Scott

ISBN 10: 1108434339 / ISBN 13: 9781108434331

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Beschreibung

New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 720.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers B9781108434331

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Shepherding Nature: The Challenge of Conservation Reliance
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1108434339
• ISBN-13: 9781108434331
• Einband: Paperback / softback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

With stories about species on the brink, this book explores the causes and consequences of conservation reliance and its implications.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

J. Michael Scott was a Research Biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service for thirty-seven years, leading research programs on forest birds of the Hawaiian Islands and the California Condor. He served as Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Leader and Professor of Wildlife at the University of Idaho, where he is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor. His research has emphasized conservation, endangered-species policy, and landscape ecology.

John A. Wiens is an Emeritus University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. After thirty-six years in academia, he served for six years as Lead/Chief Scientist with the Nature Conservancy and then for four years as Chief Scientist with PRBO Conservation Science in California. His research on landscape ecology, conservation, and the ecology of birds has led to many publications.

Beatrice Van Horne was a professor for seventeen years at Colorado State University, where her research focused on population biology of terrestrial vertebrates. Subsequently she was a National Program Leader in areas related to wildlife, fisheries, climate change, and forest fire for the US Forest Service and the US Geological Survey. Most recently she led the Northwest Climate Hub for the Department of Agriculture.

Dale D. Goble is an Emeritus University Distinguished Professor and the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Idaho. His research interests are in natural resource law (including public land law and wildlife law), natural resource history, and torts. He has coauthored several books on the Endangered Species Act and a comprehensive primer on wildlife law.