Nature's place: Conservation sites and countryside change

This readable and authoritative book gives a clear picture of the background to the conservation debate, its development in the 1980s and the directions future policy should take. Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain and the pressures on wildlife are ever more severe. In spite of extensive media coverage and debates in Parliament, few books have dealt seriously with the critical issues; Nature s place aims to do this. The book is broad in scope and focusses on the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and its provisions for the protection of wildlife habitats in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). This follows an historical account of habitat loss over the past 200 years and the origins of conservation and site-protection policy. The historical scope, conservationist stance, and serious and practical recommendations of this distinctive book will appeal to all those who are actively concerned with nature conservation, as professionals, voluntary workers or students. Bill Adams was a founder member of the British Association of Nature Conservationists. He edited ECOS: a review of conservation from 1983-1985. He is a Fellow of Downing College. Cambridge, and an Assistant Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge.

Nature's Place: Conservation Sites and Countryside Change

Adams, W.M.

Business & Money

Unwin Hyman

Bridges the gap between environmen and development studies. This book argues that the 'greenness' of _ development planning is not to be found in a concern for ecology or the environment, but in issues of Third World self-determination. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of geography, environmental science, development studies and development institutes.

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (Routledge Natural Environment Problems and Management Series)

Economics

Routledge

Adams analyses the evolution of the concept of `sustainable development' and assesses how this can be applied in the real world. Bridging the gap between ecology and development studies, he argues that the `greeness' of development planning is not to be found in a concern for ecology of the environment, but in control, power and self-determination.

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World

This book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment. It draws on four years of field research with farmers in the Sahelian region and builds on work with these communities over several decades. Reporting on studies of four village communities, it shows how people work to achieve sustainable livelihoods and emphasises that there can be development without disaster.

Working the Sahel (Global Environmental Change Series)

Mortimore, M.J.

Reference

This revised and updated new edition retains the clear and powerful argument which characterized the original. It gives a valuable analysis of the theory and practice of sustainable development and suggests that at the start of the new millennium, we should think radically about the challenge of sustainability. Fully revised, this latest edition includes further reading, chapter outlines, chapter summaries and new discussion topics, and explores: <ul>
<li>the roots of sustainable development thinking and its evolution in the last three decades of the twentieth century</li> <li>the dominant ideas within mainstream sustainable development</li> <li>the nature and diversity of alternative ideas about sustainability</li> <li>the problems of environmental degradation and the environmental impacts of development</li> <li>strategies for building sustainability in development from above and below.</li>
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Offering a synthesis of theoretical ideas on sustainability based on the industrialized economies of the North and the practical, applied ideas in the South which tend to ignore 'First World' theory, this important text gives a clear discussion of theory and extensive practical insights drawn from Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (The Natural Environment: Problems and Management)

Working the Sahel

Nature conservation strategies have accomplished an enormous amount over the last 50 years but traditional approaches are failing to keep pace with new threats to wildlife and landscape and changes in the relationship of society and nature. This text offers a fundamental reassessment of conservation. In what is both a personal account and a broader practical vision, it argues that it is no longer a matter of parks and reserves, but conservation must now be central to our relationship with nature, and embrace the whole countryside. New thinking about biodiversity and sustainability offer opportunities to forge new and effective links between our lives and the natural world, and the book explores their ecological, economic and cultural significance. Conservation has the potential to create a new space for nature, in the landscape, and in our lives and imaginations.

Future Nature: A Vision for Conservation

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Kogan Page.

Future Nature analyses the problems that conservation faces and seeks the new ideas and new energy that conservation needs for the future. Concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability, and changes in our understanding, appreciation and concern for nature, offer unprecedented opportunities. The links between nature and culture are tightly intertwined, as are those between economies and the countryside. Bill Adams explores these links, and the scientific, cultural and economic significance of conservation. He argues that conservation must move beyond the boundaries of parks and reserves to embrace the whole countryside, and that it must be built into ordinary life, not isolated as a specialised product kept only in reserved places. Conservation action must be founded on the relationship between our daily lives and the natural world: its success demands a creative approach, and a recognition of the vital wilderness of nature. The importance of conservation for the future is enormous. It holds the potential to create new spaces for nature; both in the landscape, and in our lives and imaginations. This factual, beautifully written and thought-provoking book offers a fundamental reassessment of conservation, its importance, and how to achieve it.

Future Nature: A Vison for Conservation

Earthscan / James & James

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Nature's Place: Conservation Sites and Countryside Change

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (Routledge Natural Environment Problems and Management Series)

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World

Working the Sahel (Global Environmental Change Series)

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (The Natural Environment: Problems and Management)

Working the Sahel

Working the Sahel

Future Nature: A Vision for Conservation

Future Nature: A Vison for Conservation