Against Extinction
The Story of Conservation
'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why.'Bulletin of British Ecological Society Against Extinction tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire in London in 1903 to the huge and diverse international movement of the present day. It vividly portrays conservation's legacy of big game hunting, the battles for the establishment of national parks, the global importance of species conservation and debates over the sustainable use of and trade in wildlife. Bill Adams add…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-57218-0
- EAN: 9781136572180
- Produktnummer: 13833068
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 326 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'942 KB
Über den Autor
Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge. He is editor of Decolonizing Nature: strategies for conservation in a postcolonial era and author of Future Nature: a vision for conservation.
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