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This book provides a review of the multitude of conservation concepts, both from a scientific, philosophical, and social science perspective, asking how we want to shape our relationships with nature as humans, and providing guidance on which conservation approaches can help us to do this. Nature conservation is a contested terrain and there is not only one idea about what constitutes conservation but many different ones, which sometimes are conflicting. Employing a conceptual and historical analysis, this book sorts and interprets the differing conservation concepts, with a special emphasis on narrative analysis as a means for describing human-nature relationships and for linking conservation science to practice and to society at large. Case studies illustrate the philosophical issues and help to analyse major controversies in conservation biology. While the main focus is on Western ideas of conservation, the book also touches upon non-Western, including indigenous, concepts. The approach taken in this book emphasises the often implicit strategic and societal dimensions of conservation concepts, including power relations. In finding a path through the multitude of concepts, the book showcases that it is necessary to maintain the plurality of approaches, in order to successfully address different situations and societal choices. Overall, this book highlights the very tension which conservation biology must withstand between science and society: between what is possible and what we want individually or as a society or even more what is desirable. Bringing some order into this multitude will support more efficient conservation and conservation biology. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars studying nature conservation from a variety of disciplines, including biology, ecology, anthropology, sociology, geography, and philosophy. It will also be of use to professionals wanting to gain an understanding of the broad spectrum of conservation concepts and approaches and when to apply them

"This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society. Now covering 15% of the land surface and a growing area of ocean, the creation of protected areas is one of the fastest conscious changes in land management in history. But this has come at a cost, including a backlash from human rights organisations about the social impacts of protected areas. At the same time, a range of new types of area-based conservation have emerged, based on indigenous people's territories, local community lands and a new designation of "other effective area-based conservation measures". This book provides a concise overview of the status and possible futures of area-based conservation. With many people calling for half the earth's land surface to remain in a natural condition, this book taps into the urgent debate about the feasibility of such an aim and the ways in which such land might be managed. It provides a timely contribution by people who have been at the centre of the debate for the last twenty years. Building on the authors' large personal knowledge, the book draws on global case studies where the authors have first-hand experience, including Yosemite National Park (USA), Blue Mountains National Park (Australia), Bwindi National Park (Uganda), Chingaza National Park (Colombia), Ustyart Plateau (Kazakhstan), Snowdonia National Park (Wales) and many more. This book is essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in conservation and its impact on society"--

One major consequence of climate change is abrupt, dramatic changes in regional biodiversity. Even if the most optimistic scenarios for mitigating climate change transpire, the fate of many wild species rests on the shoulders of people engaged in conservation planning, management, and policy. Providing managers with the latest and most useful climate change research is critical and requires challenging the conventional divide between scientists and managers.Biodiversity in a Changing Climate promotes dialogue among scientists, decision makers, and managers who are grappling with climate-related threats to species and ecosystems in diverse forms. The book includes case studies and best practices used to address impacts related to climate change across a broad spectrum of species and habitats-from coastal krill and sea urchins to prairie grass and mountain bumblebees. Focused on California, the issues and strategies presented in this book will prove relevant to regions across the West, as well as other regions, and provide a framework for how scientists and managers in any region can bridge the communication divide to manage biodiversity in a rapidly changing world.Biodiversity and a Changing Climate will prove an indispensable guide to students, scientists, and professionals engaged in conservation and resource management

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of these narratives: the single-minded expectation of unlimited growth on a finite planet. Rawson shows how these stories, which have long pervaded Western dreams about the future, have helped to enable an unprecedentedly abundant and technology-driven lifestyle for some while bringing the threat of environmental disaster to all. Adapting to ecological realities, he argues, hinges on the ability to create new visions of tomorrow that decouple growth from the idea of progress

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Environmental Meaning of Austin -- Part 1. People, Land, and Place -- Part 2. The Landscape Emerges -- Part 3. The Environmental Meaning of Austin -- Part 4. The Environmental City -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Myth -- Alice in Recycling-Land -- The 411 & -- 911 of Trash (and Recycling) -- Just Make It Go Away! -- Chapter 2: Frankenstein's Bottle: A Problem of Math -- Who's the Monster? -- Twinkle Twinkle Little Bottle -- Before Man was God -- Prometheus Unbound -- Brittle Bottles and Magic Metals -- Frankenstein's Bottle -- Frankenstein: The Material Design Math Problem -- Chapter 3: The Throwaway Supply Chain -- Waste Away to Prosperity? -- Waste is a Sin -- Conserve or Preserve? -- Consuming is a Virtue -- Package First, Product Second -- Disrupting Throwaway-ISM -- Chapter 4: The Happy Cup Fallacy -- Cartoons and Causes -- Inaugural Campaign: The Crying Indian (or Italian) -- It's Not Easy Being Green, Sometimes -- The Happy Cup or the Damn Cup? -- Chapter 5: Bottles Grown from the Soil -- Manic Organics -- Growing Bottles -- First Generation: The Inorganic Organic Bottle -- Next Up: Good Science? -- Chapter 6: It's in Our Blood -- Trash Talk -- EU Sustainability: Slowing Down Planetary Collapse -- Environmental Utopia? -- Why Today's Recycling Can Be Good but Never Great -- Is Bad the Enemy of Good . . . and Great? -- Chapter 7: Something Needs to Be Done! -- 2020: A Recycling Odyssey -- Something Needs to Be Done! -- Chapter 8: Solutions-Extending the Supply Chain to Nature -- A Packaging Revolution? -- Solution 1: Material Scientist 3.0-A (Supercomputer) Creator of New Materials -- Solution 2: Good or No Packaging Through a New Approach to Innovation -- Solution 3: A Voluntary Refund/Deposit System -- Solution 4: Market Based Extended Producer Responsibility (M-EPR) -- Solution 5: Reduce Waste, Not Use -- Chapter 9: 2020: The Happy Cup Reality -- 2020: The End to the Recycling Myth -- Why Change? -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Laws and Regulations Pertaining to Wetland Areas in the Intermountain West -- 2. Variation in Hydrology, Soils, and Vegetation of Natural Palustrine Wetlands among Geologic Provinces -- 3. Ecological Processes of Riverine Wetland Habitats -- 4. Wildlife Use of Riverine Wetland Habitats -- 5. Management of Riverine Wetland Habitats -- 6. Irrigation, Salinity, and Landscape Patterns of Natural Palustrine Wetlands -- 7. Wildlife of Natural Palustrine Wetlands -- 8. Management of Natural Palustrine Wetlands -- 9. Components, Processes, and Design of Created Palustrine Wetlands -- 10. Wildlife of Created Palustrine Wetlands -- 11. Management of Created Palustrine Wetlands -- 12. Classification, Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Riverine and Palustrine Wetland Ecosystems -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index

What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition