TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams, William M
TI  - Against Extinction:  The Storyof Conservation
SN  - 9781844070558
U1  - 333.72 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Conservation of natural resources
KW  - Nature conservation
KW  - Nature conservation -- History
N1  - 	Against ExtinctionThe Story of Conservation; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Challenge of Nature; Bringing back the wild; From guns to parks; The problem of naturalness; Community and conservation; Hybrid nature; The challenge of conservation; Outline of the book; Chapter 2 Good Hunting; Empty plains; Imperial conservation; Extinction; Pressure for Preservation; Proper hunting; Shooting as an argument for conservation; On safari; Chapter 3 The Global Conservation Regime; The need for international action. Empire preservationBeyond empire; Global nature conservation; Decolonization and conservation; The new professionals; Broadcast nature; Nature lovers: the growth of popular environmentalism; Partners for conservation; Chapter 4 Nature in Its Place; Reserves for wildlife; Dividing the land; The idea of national parks; The national park spirit; Nature and parks in the United Kingdom; Parks for the colonies; Decolonization and national parks; The conservation estate; Chapter 5 Poachers to Partners; Saving the wild; Wilderness and cultural imagination; Managing wild nature; The poacher at home. Nature's fortressLiving with parks; Parks for people; Chapter 6 Two by Two; Some are more equal than others; Red for danger; Operation save the species; The wild captive; Saving the unicorns; Releasing the captive; Species in situ; Species and identity; Chapter 7 The Demands of Development; Spaceship Earth; Human space; Development, colonization and conservation; Wildlife and development; Game, disease and development; Nature's conservationist; Sustainable development; The impacts of development; Damned by development; Reconciling conservation and development; Chapter 8 Trading Nature. A zoo in their luggageThe problem of ivory; Outconsuming nature; Without borders; The devil and the deep blue sea; The fur flies; Use it or lose it; Chapter 9 Conservation's Plan; Conservation's corporate plan; Back to barriers; The costs and benefits of conservation; The wildlife resource; Wildlife as a crop; Community-based safari hunting; Profiting with nature; Chapter 10 Society with Nature; Nature's degradation; Nature's renewal; Nature's image; Nature's neighbours; Society with nature; Notes
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