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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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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Conserving Living Natural Resources
• Subtitle: In the Context of a Changing World
• Author: Bertie Josephson Weddell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 444
• EAN: 9780521782708
• ISBN: 0521782708
• ID: 02043089
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 820 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. March 2002

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