Conservation for a new generation [electronic resource] : redefining natural resources management / edited by Richard L. Knight and Courtney White.

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9781597269216

Title:

Conservation for a new generation [electronic resource] : redefining natural resources management / edited by Richard L. Knight and Courtney White.

Author:

Knight, Richard L.

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1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Introduction / Richard L. Knight -- This place in time / Curt Meine -- pt. I: Agencies and institutions : the need for innovation. Natural resource agencies : the necessity for change / Antony S. Cheng -- Public lands : better policies from better politics / Daniel Kemmis -- Parks and protected areas : conserving lands across administrative boundaries / Jonathan Adams -- Case study 1: Innovators down under : New Zealand's fisheries / Christopher M. Dewees -- Case study 2: When government respects landholders : wildlife in Zimbabwe / Mike Jones -- Case study 3: Kinzua Deer Cooperative : conservation through cooperation / Jeffrey Kochel -- Case study 4: Working wildlands / Lynne Sherrod -- p.t II: A changing toolbox for conservation. Conservation planning : new tools and new approaches / Jodi A. Hilty and Craig R. Groves -- Community planning : challenges, obstacles, and opportunities / Lora A. Lucero -- Economic incentives : conservation that pays / Luther Probst, Adam Davis, John Shepard, and Nina Chambers -- Ecosystem services : the nature of valuing nature / J.B. Ruhl -- Case study 5: Conservation at the speed of business / William J. Ginn -- Case study 6: California North Coast Forest Conservation Initiative / Chris Kelly Case study 7: Ranching for family and profit / Kay and David James -- pt. III: The radical center : finding common ground. Food and open spaces bridging the rural-urban divide / Richard L. Knight -- Land health : a language to describe the common ground beneath our feet / Courtney White -- Reciprocity : toward a new relationship / Peter Forbes -- Case study 8: Communication networks, leadership, and conversation in an African seascape / Beatrice I. Crona -- Case study 9: Farmer as conservationist / James O. Andrew -- Case study 10: Wallowa County : the power of "we" / Diane Daggett Snyder -- Case study 11: Collaboration as teacher / Dan Dagget -- Case study 12: Groundswell : community dynamics from the bottom up / Todd Graham -- Where will the moose live? / Bob Budd -- Conclusion : an unprecedented future / Courtney White.

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Conservation of natural resources.

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Knight, Richard L.

White, Courtney, 1960-

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2009

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Summary

In hundreds of watersheds and communities across the United States, conservation is being reinvented and invigorated by collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments working with nongovernmental organizations and private landowners, and fueled by economic incentives, to promote both healthy natural communities and healthy human communities.

Conservation for a New Generation captures those efforts with chapters that explain the new landscape of conservation along with case studies that illustrate these new approaches. The book brings together leading voices in the field of environmental conservation--Lynne Sherrod, Curt Meine, Daniel Kemmis, Luther Propst, Jodi Hilty, Peter Forbes, and many others--to offer fourteen chapters and twelve case studies that

* demonstrate the benefits of government agencies partnering with diverse stakeholders;
* explore how natural resources management is evolving;
* discuss emerging practices for conservation, including conservation planning, ecological restoration, valuing ecosystem services, and using economic incentives;
* promote cooperation on natural resources issues that have in the past been divisive.

Throughout, contributors focus on the fundamental truth that unites human and land communities: as one prospers, so does the other; as one declines, so too will the other. The book illustrates how natural resources management that emphasizes building strong relationships results in outcomes that are beneficial to both people and land.

Author Notes

Richard L. Knight is professor of wildlife conservation in the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. Courtney White is cofounder and executive director of the Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building bridges between ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists, and others.

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Choice Review

The US is experiencing a rapidly growing population spreading across open landscapes, fragmenting large land areas into smaller holdings, reducing habitats, facilitating the invasion of exotic species, and increasing demands for water and energy. This urban movement with its disconnect from the land brings into rural landscapes many conflicting values related to the land and its resources. These changes have created challenges never faced by older conservationists. Old paradigms excluded human elements and focused on national and state levels. The current situation, as the book points out, forces the need for new paradigms that emphasize human dimensions at local levels, stressing social relationships, collaboration, and cooperation among shareholders. The contributors to this work address these problems and explore new approaches in three parts: the need for innovation among agencies and institutions; conservation and community planning, and economic incentives; and finding common ground for action. Case studies exemplify these approaches. This book parallels a similar approach on a global scale presented in D. Brockington, R. Duffy, and J. Igoe's Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism, and Future Protected Areas (CH, Apr'09, 46-4421). Conservation for a New Generation is a must read for all conservationists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All professional and academic readers, lower-division undergraduate and above. R. L. Smith emeritus, West Virginia University