The Conservation Handbook: Research, Management and Policy

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John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 294 páginas
Textbooks on the principles of conservation biology abound. Yet, how does one put this theoretical knowledge into practice? The aim of The Conservation Handbook is to provide clear guidance on the implementation of conservation techniques. The wide range of methods described include those for ecological research, monitoring, planning, education, habitat management and combining conservation with development. Nineteen case studies illustrate how the methods have been applied. The book will be of interest to conservation biology students and practicing conservationists worldwide.

For each copy of the book sold, another copy will be sent free to a practicing conservationist outside Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.


  • Foreword by E. O. Wilson.
  • Concise, practical guide packed full of ideas, methods and advice.
  • Provides solutions for the main conservation problems most commonly encountered.
  • 18 global case studies illustrate the application of techniques.
  • The Conservation Handbook Donations Project
    this book is being sent free to those practising conservationists outside Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan who are otherwise unlikely to obtain a copy. These copies are provided at cost price by Blackwell Science, the publisher, and paid for with the author''s royalties. Each book sold means another one will be donated.
 

Contenido

1 Introduction
1
2 Assessing biodiversity
3
CASE STUDY Southern African frog atlas project
16
3 Setting conservation priorities
21
4 Monitoring
36
BOX 41 Estimating populations from point counts and line transects
45
BOX 42 Population estimates from markreleaserecapture
48
BOX 43 Population estimates from capture frequency
49
CASE STUDY Managing tourism in the Antarctic
151
10 Bringing about political and policy changes
154
CASE STUDY Water extraction in Mono Lake
155
CASE STUDY International collaboration to reduce pesticide poisoning
157
CASE STUDY Reducing traffic damage to a roadside reserve
160
11 Species management
164
learning from experiments
176
12 Habitat management
177

5 Ecological research techniques
65
CASE STUDY Estimating the population viability a reestablished Whitetailed Eagle population
101
6 Diagnosis and prediction
111
diagnosis and recovery
114
7 Conservation planning
123
CASE STUDY The UK Corncrake species action plan
126
BOX 71 Writing a species action plan
128
BOX 72 Writing a management plan
129
8 Organisational management and fund raising
131
9 Education and ecotourism
142
CASE STUDY Conservation stickers on Sumba
144
CASE STUDY Public involvement in the conservation of Tiritiri Matangi Island New Zealand
145
CASE STUDY Global Rivers Environmental Education Network GREEN
146
CASE STUDY Wild nature in the Dutch Oostvaardersplassen
179
13 Exploitation
203
CASE STUDY Methods of Moose management in Finland
215
CASE STUDY Goose management in North America
216
CASE STUDY Antipoaching strategy to protect the Amur Tiger
220
14 Integrating development and conservation
225
CASE STUDY Combining development and conservation in KilumIjim Forest Cameroon
231
144 The project cycle
233
CASE STUDY Coral reef and fisheries management in the Philippines
234
BOX 141 The conceptual model approach to planning projects
237
References
252
Index
273
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William J Sutherland is the Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge. He is currently the President of the British Ecological Society. He is also a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge since 2008.

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