This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.
As our environment is subjected to increasing assault from climatic changes and pollutants, conservation has become a growing concern for both specialists and generalists alike.
The first chapter of this book considers the political and institutional development of nature conservation and reviews the physical and biological nature of Britain, its geology, climate and wildlife habitats.
Subsequent chapters cover the loss of habitats and species, how these losses have been managed and the techniques used to survey and monitor the integration of nature conservation policies in industries from agriculture to forestry and fisheries.
Marren continues by discussing how nature conservation has emerged from the sidelines to become a major concern. He addresses the role of the media, weighs up the successes and failures of the conservation movement and looks to what the future may hold.
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‘The quintessential ‘New Naturalist’ message. It is a delight to see it so clearly and passionately expressed.’
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 344 pages, 16 colour plates130 b/w illustrations. Dust jacket near fine, price clipped, crease to the bottom edge of the front panel, no fading or marking, now protected in a removable clear archival sleeve. Buckram binding fine with bright gilt lettering. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A new slightly damaged copy. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 036278
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. London: HarperCollins, 2002. New Naturalist No. 91. Color plates, b&w photos, illustrations, 344 pages. A perfect copy. Hardcover. New/New. Seller Inventory # 008299
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st. A new copy of this New Naturalist volume. No inscriptions and jacket not clipped. Mint condition. Seller Inventory # 006566
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Signed by the author. 344 pages, 16 colour plates 130 b/w illustrations. Dust jacket fine, not price clipped, no fading or marking, now protected in a removable clear archival sleeve. Buckram binding fine with bright gilt lettering. Contents clean and tight, signed by the author to the title page, no inscriptions. A scarce signed copy of this title. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 038208
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 344, a very good new copy in an unfaded dustwrapper. [As our environment is subjected to increasing assault from climatic changes and pollutants, conservation has become a growing concern for both specialists and generalists alike. The first chapter of this book considers the political and institutional development of nature conservation and reviews the physical and biological nature of Britain, its geology, climate and wildlife habitats. Subsequent chapters cover the loss of habitats and species, how these losses have been managed and the techniques used to survey and monitor the integration of nature conservation policies in industries from agriculture to forestry and fisheries. Marren continues by discussing how nature conservation has emerged from the sidelines to become a major concern. He addresses the role of the media, weighs up the successes and failures of the conservation movement and looks to what the future may hold.]. Seller Inventory # 009424
Book Description Condition: New. (Hardcover, 2002). 2002 1st edition. Pp344. Colour & b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Green boards. Near fine in very good dust-wrapper. This is a valuable overview of the conservation situation in the UK at the time of publication. The author's angle of view gives the impression of a huge, externally imposed NGO exercise, rather than a description of a living landscape, and so the book offers a useful means of understanding the Conservation Industry quite as much as what is going on in the landscape itself. If the purchase of Carbon Offsets and supermarket food with a picture of a tractor on it seem ecologically meaningful actions, then read some of the older more geographical New Naturalists, beginning with the first Snowdonia book. This will put into perspective what has been lost up to the time of this present title. The movement outlined here is emphatically not working backwards towards the former position of sustainability so recently lost. Chapters include; introduction, where we are now; Part I, dramatis personae - the official conservtion agencies, the voluntary army, conservation politics, SSSI's and the law; Part II, wildlife habitats - nature reserves, the farmed environment, woods and forests, bricks and water (the urban and marine fringes); Part III, living with wildlife - development causes celebres, animals that get in our way, biodiversity, seaeagles and parrots' feathers, invading and nesting, summing up, whither nature conservation?; main events affecting nature conservation in Great Britian, 1970-2001. . Seller Inventory # 26755
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