Perspectives on Nature Conservation - Patterns, Pressures and Prospects

Edited by John P. Tiefenbacher

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Abstract: Perspectives on Nature Conservation demonstrates the diversity of information and viewpoints that are critical for appreciating the gaps and weaknesses in local, regional and hemispheric ecologies, and also for understanding the limitations and barriers to accomplishing critical nature conservation projects. The book is organized to emphasize the linkages between the geographic foci of conservation projects and the biological substances that we conceptualize as "nature", through original research. The reader moves through perspectives of diminishing spatial scales, from smaller to larger landscapes or larger portions of the Earth, to learn that the range of factors that promote or prevent conservation through the application of scholarship and academic concepts change with the space in question. The book reflects disciplinary diversity and a co-mingling of science and social science to promote understanding of the patterns of, pressures on and prospects for conservation.

JEL-codes: Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-953-51-0033-1
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Applied Landscape Ecology, Future Socioeconomics and Policy-Making in the Neotropics

Arturo Restrepo Aristizabal, Ian Sajid Acuna and Valentina Heggestad

Deciphering Early Angiosperm Landscape Ecology Using a Clustering Method on Cretaceous Plant Assemblages

Clement Coiffard, Bernard Gomez and Veronique Daviero-Gomez

Diversity and Genetic Erosion of Ancient Crops and Wild Relatives of Agricultural Cultivars for Food: Implications for Nature Conservation in Georgia (Caucasus)

Maia Akhalkatsi, Jana Ekhvaia and Zezva Asanidze

Impacts of Woodland Fragmentation on Species' Occurrences - The Combination of a Habitat Model with Landscape Metrics

Britta Eggers and Raul Kohler

Landscape Approach to Bio-Cultural Diversity Conservation in Rural Lebanon

Jala Makhzoumi, Salma Nashabi Talhouk, Rami Zurayk and Riyad Sadek

Metallophytes and Metallicolous Vegetation: Evolutionary Aspects, Taxonomic Changes and Conservational Status in Central Europe

Henryk Baumbach

Modelling Nature in Ecologically Oriented Urban Context

Krzysztof M. Rostanski

The Application of Landscape Indices in Landscape Ecology

Csorba Peter and Szilard Szabo

The Nature Conservation of Baikal Region: Special Natural Protected Areas System in Three Environmental Models

Tatyana Kalikhman

The Role of Landscape in Contact Zones of Sister Species of Lizards

Gabriela Cardozo, Sergio Naretto, Marcel Zak and Margarita Chiaraviglio

Trail Impact Management Related to Vegetation Response in Termessos National Park, in Turkish Mediterranean

Meryem Atik, Selcuk Sayan, Osman Karaguzel and Emrah Yildirim

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DOI: 10.5772/1374

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