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Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "protected" for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries. In all but a small fraction of the earth's land area, then, conservation and people must coexist. Conservation is a resource for all those who aim to reconcile biodiversity with human livelihoods. It traces the historical roots of modern conservation thought and practice, and explores current perspectives from evolutionary and community ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, political ecology, economics, and policy. The authors examine a suite of conservation strategies and perspectives from around the world, highlighting the most innovative and promising avenues for future efforts. Exploring, highlighting, and bridging gaps between the social and natural sciences as applied in the practice of conservation, this book provides a broad, practically oriented view. It is essential reading for anyone involved in the conservation process--from academic conservation biology to the management of protected areas, rural livelihood development to poverty alleviation, and from community-based natural resource management to national and global policymaking.
Nature conservation --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Philosophy.
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Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples' place in the country's natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty alleviation in India.
Nature conservation --- Economic development --- Economic aspects
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Billions have been spent on land conservation but too little attention had been paid to how cost-effective these investments have been. With budgets increasingly constrained, conservationists must learn to fully harness their funds to protect critical resources. Messer and Allen are pioneers in making conservation selection more successful, cost-effective, scientific, and transparent. This book introduces powerful mathematical tools available for project selection, using real-life examples and a practical step-by-step approach. Readers can readily apply these methods to their own work, accomplishing more with less by combining the individual benefits of structured decision-making, mathematical programming, and an understanding of market forces and human behavior. The authors highlight tools from conservation science, mathematics, land use planning and behavioral economics, showing how they can be combined to help protect key environmental resources. This is an invaluable volume for all students, professionals and stakeholders associated with conservation programs.
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In diesem essential beschreibt Jan-Uwe Schmidt, wie durch Kiebitzinseln nicht nur dem Kiebitz geholfen wird, sondern auch andere Tier- und Pflanzenarten profitieren können. Durch jährliche Anlage einer Schwarzbrache mit mindestens 2 Hektar Größe lassen sich Nassstellen leicht als Kiebitzbrutplatz einrichten. Landwirte erhöhen so die Nachhaltigkeit der Landnutzung und schaffen außerdem einen sicheren Erlös aus der Vergütung der Agrarumweltmaßnahme. Dieses essential gibt praktische Hinweise zur Planung und Anlage von Kiebitzinseln mithilfe von Luftbildern. Der Inhalt Nassstellen in Äckern – Problem oder Chance? Zielart Kiebitz Anlage einer Kiebitzinsel Verwendung von Luftbildern bei der Planung Die Zielgruppen Praktiker und Entscheider in der Umweltplanung, Landschaftspfleger, Agrar-, Umwelt- und Naturwissenschaftler, Landwirte Der Autor Jan-Uwe Schmidt studierte Vermessungswesen an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH) und Geographie an der Technischen Universität Dresden. Nach verschiedenen Tätigkeiten, u. a. als Vermessungsingenieur, leitete er von 2009 bis 2015 das sächsische Bodenbrüterprojekt beim Förderverein Sächsische Vogelschutzwarte Neschwitz e. V. Seit 2013 ist er am Institut für Geographie der TU Dresden als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter tätig.
Nature conservation. --- Nature. --- Environment. --- Agriculture. --- Nature Conservation. --- Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
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Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their ongoing attempts to conserve and monitor biodiversity. Conservation drones are low-cost, autonomous, and operator-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles that can be used for surveying, mapping, and monitoring both habitat and biodiversity. They are fast becoming a valuable complement to ground-based surveys and satellite imagery for a wide range of ecological and conservation applications. The authors pioneered the use of conservation drones for the purpose of monitoring orangutan populations in Southeast Asia. They subsequently founded ConservationDrones.org to share their knowledge of building and using drones with colleagues in the wider environmental community. This website has proved highly popular and this book aims to further build capacity to use drones and inspire others to adapt emerging technologies for practical conservation.
Conservation biology --- Nature conservation --- Drone aircraft. --- Remote sensing.
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This book is primarily intended as a resource for students, academics and instructors studying, teaching, and working in zoology, ecology, biology, wildlife conservation and management, ecophysiology, behavioural ecology, population biology and ecology, and environmental biology or environmental science. It serves as a means of learning ecological principles by 'doing' ecology, by analysing data, drawing graphs, undertaking practical exercises that simulate field work and more. It helps students, instructors and those new to the field to learn about the principles of ecology and conservation by completing a series of problems. Prior knowledge of the subject is not assumed, the work requires users to be able to perform simple, largely arithmetic, calculations and draw graphs, Most of the exercises in the book have been used widely by the author's own students over a number of years, and many are based on real data from published research.--
General ecology and biosociology --- Ecology. --- Conservation biology. --- Nature conservation.
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