E-raamat: Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

"December 31, 2019: New Year's Eve and a steady snow is luring me outdoors to celebrate a 30th wedding anniversary, but first I need to draft the last few new words for our Fourth Edition. The most conspicuous new feature is the addition of Viorel Popescu as an author, continuing a tradition of extending academic lineages, given that Viorel earned graduate degrees with both James and me. Undertaking a collaboration like this requires considerable trust and James and I knew that Viorel had the talent and commitment to make a huge contribution to the book, leading the revision of four key chapters and carefully reviewing all of the chapters. Furthermore, he brought to the table many new perspectives as a native of another part of the world - Romania - where he remains active in conservation at many levels"--

“This book is about hope in the face of forces that would degrade our world. This book is about the rich tapestry of life that shares our world now&;and&;about how we can maintain it,&;sometimes in places that we protect and set aside, more often in places where we share the lands&;and waters with a wide range of other species.” 

For more than 30 years, Fundamentals of Conservation Biology has been a valued mainstay of the literature, serving both to introduce new students to this ever-changing topic, and to provide an essential resource for academics and researchers working in the discipline. In the decade since the publication of the third edition, concerns about humanity’s efforts to conserve the natural world have only grown deeper, as new threats to biodiversity continue to emerge.  

This fourth edition has taken into account a vast new literature, and boasts nearly a thousand new references as a result. By embracing new theory and practice and documenting many examples of both conservation successes and the hard lessons of real-world “wicked” environmental problems, Fundamentals of Conservation Biology remains a vital resource for biologists, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, and others.