294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years of conservation achievements in the UK are now being confronted by a new complexion of economic forces that are driving change in the countryside. At the same time new ideas in conservation are altering the role that conservation is being asked to play in negotiating the transition from past to future.
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Foreword: Future Nature Revisited * Introduction to the Revised Edition * Finding Nature * Constructing Conservation * Nature Lost * Conservation and the Global Village * Culture and the Countryside * Making Nature * Nature and the Wild * the Conservation Landscape * Nature, Landscapes, Lives * Releasing the Wild * Postscript * Notes and References * Further Reading * List of Abbreviations * Index
Biography
Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, an editor of Decolonizing Nature: strategies for conservation in a post-colonial era (Earthscan, 2002) and the author of Green Development: environment and sustainability in the Third World.
'Adams wants us to begin thinking about nature in the city and of the city as part of nature. Our suburbs no longer separate city from the countryside. This is what we have left. Because half of the planet‘s six billion people now live in cities, we need to focus on making the city livable. Bringing nature into it may be crucial.' Review of Radical Political Economics 'Well documented and beautifully written, there are lessons to be learned from this well-told story.' Marilyn K. Alaimo, garden writer and library volunteer, Chicago Botanic Garden. Current Books on Gardening and Botany, April 2004.
