Product Description

In this updated edition, the author analyses the problems that conservation faces and seeks the new ideas and energy that it needs for the future. Concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability, and changes in our understanding, appreciation and concern for nature and culture are tightly intertwined, as are those between economics and the countryside. Adams explores these links and the scientific, cultural and economic significance of conservation. He argues that conservation must move beyond the boundaries of parks and reserves to embrace the whole countryside, and that it must be built into ordinary life, not isolated as a specialized product kept only in reserved places.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #364294 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
'This is a book in the genre of Wordsworth - emotion recollected in tranquillity... I thoroughly recommend Future Nature to all those involved in taking conservation into the next millennium' Professor Michael Winter, Countryside and Community Research Unit, Cheltenham and Gloucester College 'An admirable commentary on nature conservation in Britain over the last 50 years' John Francis, Environmental Values 'An excellent undergraduate text' Professor Nigel Curry, Area

About the Author
Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, an editor of Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era (Earthscan, 2002) and the author of Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World.