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| ISBN: | 9780511077784
0511077785
0521782708
9780521782708
0521788129
9780521788120
0511076215
9780511076213
0511351186
9780511351181
9780511206405
0511206402
9780511804298
0511804296
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Conserving Living Natural Resources is an introductory textbook for students of conservation biology and resource management. It presents the historical and conceptual contexts of three seminal approaches to the management of living natural resources: utilitarian management for harvest of featured species and control of unwanted species, protection and restoration of populations and habitats to maintain biodiversity, and management of complex ecosystems to sustain both productivity and biodiversity. The book shows how the first two approaches were grounded in the belief that nature is 'in balance' and that people are outsiders, and then goes on to show how the 'flux-of-nature' paradigm suggests new strategies for conservation grounded in a view of nature as dynamic, and people as participants in the natural world. Rather than endorsing a single approach as the only correct one, this book investigates the historical and philosophical contexts, conceptual frameworks, principal techniques, and the limitations of each approach.
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| Other form: | Print version: Weddell, Bertie J., 1948- Conserving living natural resources. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521782708
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