Integrating Conservation, Development and Research - Scientific Responses to the Environment-development Challenge (Hardcover)

This textbook on environmental science examines conservation in the context of the challenge of developmental and environmental issues in a globalized world. The first part is on context and concepts; the second part is on institutional challenges and concerted scientific responses. Individual chapters cover political and economic concerns, ethnoecology, regional development, sustainable development, public education, biodiversity conservation, the biosphere concept and the interface between agriculture and ecology.