Conservation for a New Generation Redefining Natural Resources Management

Name: Conservation for a New Generation Redefining Natural Resources Management
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ISBN: 9781597264389

ISBN-10: 1597264385

ISBN-13: 9781597264389

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Richard L. Knight, Courtney White

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In hundreds of watersheds and communities across the United States, conservation is being reinvented and invigorated by collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments working with nongovernmental organizations and private landowners, and fueled by economic incentives, to promote both healthy natural communities and healthy human communities. Conservation for a New Generationcaptures those efforts with chapters that explain the new landscape of conservation along with case studies that illustrate these new approaches. The book brings together leading voices in the field of environmental conservationLynne Sherrod, Curt Meine, Daniel Kemmis, Luther Propst, Jodi Hilty,…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 11/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




This Place in Time




Agencies and Institutions: The Need for Innovation



Natural Resource Agencies: The Necessity for Change




Public Lands: Better Policies from Better Politics




Parks and Protected Areas: Conserving Lands across Administrative Boundaries




Innovators Down Under: New Zealand's Fisheries




When Government Respects Landholders: Wildlife in Zimbabwe




Kinzua Deer Cooperative: Conservation through Cooperation




Working Wildlands




A Changing Toolbox for Conservation



Conservation Planning: New Tools and New Approaches




Community Planning: Challenges, Obstacles, and Opportunities




Economic Incentives: Conservation That Pays




Ecosystem Services: The Nature of Valuing Nature




Conservation at the Speed of Business




California North Coast Forest Conservation Initiative




Ranching for Family and Profit




The Radical Center: Finding Common Ground



Food and Open Spaces Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide




Land Health: A Language to Describe the Common Ground Beneath Our Feet




Reciprocity: Toward a New Relationship




Communication Networks, Leadership, and Conservation in an African Seascape




Farmer as Conservationist




Wallowa County: The Power of "We"




Collaboration as Teacher




Groundswell: Community Dynamics from the Bottom Up




Where Will the Moose Live?



Conclusion: An Unprecedented Future



List of Contributors


Index