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Author Primack, Richard B., 1950-

Title Essentials of conservation biology / Richard B. Primack
Edition Third edition
Published Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, [2002]
©2002

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 MELB  333.9511 Pri/Eoc 2002  AVAILABLE
 MELB  333.9511 Pri/Eoc 2002  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 698 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents I. Major Issues That Define the Discipline -- Ch. 1. What Is Conservation Biology? -- Ch. 2. What Is Biological Diversity? -- Ch. 3. Where Is the World's Biological Diversity Found? -- II. Valuing Biodiversity -- Ch. 4. Ecological Economics and Direct Economic Values -- Ch. 5. Indirect Economic Values -- Ch. 6. Ethical Values -- III. Threats to Biological Diversity -- Ch. 7. Extinction -- Ch. 8. Vulnerability to Extinction -- Ch. 9. Habitat Destruction, Fragmentation, Degradation, and Global Climate Change -- Ch. 10. Overexploitation, Invasive Species, and Disease -- IV. Conservation at the Population and Species Levels -- Ch. 11. Problems of Small Populations -- Ch. 12. Applied Population Biology -- Ch. 13. Establishing New Populations -- Ch. 14. Ex Situ Conservation Strategies -- V. Practical Applications -- Ch. 15. Establishing Protected Areas -- Ch. 16. Designing Networks of Protected Areas -- Ch. 17. Managing Protected Areas -- Ch. 18. Outside Protected Areas
Ch. 19. Restoration Ecology -- VI. Conservation and Human Societies -- Ch. 20. Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Local and National Levels -- Ch. 21. An International Approach to Conservation and Sustainable Development -- Ch. 22. An Agenda for the Future
Summary This volume combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental economics, ethics, law, and the social sciences. It stresses the need for theory, research, and an interdisciplinary approach in solving conservation problems
Analysis Conservation of the environment
Notes Previous ed.: 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [645]-678)
Subject Ecology.
Nature conservation.
Conservation biology.
LC no. 2002008076
ISBN 0878937196