Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature - Softcover

Peter Kareiva; Michelle Marvier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1319146716 ISBN 13: 9781319146719

Publisher: W. H. Freeman, 2017

Synopsis

Now is the time for conservation science―a mission-oriented scientific enterprise that seeks to protect nature, including Earth’s animals, plants, and ecosystems, in the face of unprecedented human demands upon the planet. Conservation scientists apply principles from ecology, population genetics, economics, political science, and other natural and social sciences to manage and preserve nature. The focus of this textbook is first and foremost on protecting nature and especially Earth’s biota. It also contains a heavy emphasis on highlighting strategies to better connect the practice of conservation with the needs and priorities of a growing human population.

Now used at over 150 colleges and universities, Conservation Science is an original and modern approach to conservation. Conservation Science was primarily written primarily for undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested either in academic careers or working in conservation at government agencies, non-governmental organizations, or international institutions.

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About the Author

Peter Kareiva is the chief scientist and a vice president for The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest conservation organization, with over 500 scientists on staff. He also maintains an appointment at Santa Clara University. Before moving to The Nature Conservancy, Dr. Kareiva was the director of the Division of Conservation Biology at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Northwest Fisheries Science Center. He has served on the editorial board of over a dozen different journals, edited seven books, and been a faculty member at Brown University and the Universities of Washington and Virginia.

Michelle Marvier is a professor of environmental science at Santa Clara University, where she has taught undergraduate courses in conservation science since 2000. She has published more than 40 articles, is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and regularly publishes articles with her undergraduate students. Dr. Marvier has also worked for NOAA Fisheries on salmon conservation and has served as an adviser to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and The Nature Conservancy on matters of statistics, monitoring, and risk analysis.

From the Back Cover

"Conservation Science" teaches the scientific foundations of conservation while highlighting strategies to better connect its practice with the needs and priorities of a growing human population.

Gretchen Daily at Stanford University calls the book a "tour de force of conservation for the 21st Century." She says that based on "unparalleled, firsthand experience, Kareiva and Marvier explore the innovative approaches to conservation being honed around the world today. Their account is rigorous and engaging, with fresh questions, data, and quantitative analysis interwoven with vivid stories of actual conservation practice in the field."

"Conservation Science" was primarily written for undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested either in academic careers or working in conservation at government agencies, non-governmental organizations, or international institutions. Simon Levin at Princeton University says the book is a "remarkable combination of scholarship and pedagogy that will be the first choice for any course on conservation biology, and should be in every ecologist's library."

Edition details

• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1319146716
• ISBN 13: 9781319146719
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672