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.