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Conservation: A people-centred approach (Paperback)
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Conservation: A people-centred approach (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Biology Primers
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Written primarily for 16-19 year old students, this primer aims to
extend students' knowledge and inspire them to take their
school-level learning further. It explores topics that aren't
studied in depth as part of the A level curriculum (or equivalent),
giving students a first taste of the study of biology beyond
school-level and demonstrating how concepts frequently encountered
at school are relevant to and applied in current research. This is
the ideal text to support students who are considering making the
transition from studying biology at school to university. This
primer provides an introduction to the ideas of modern conservation
biology, and the issues that constrain us from achieving
sustainability. Opening with a consideration of ecology and
conservation as a science, and the notion of different processes
happening at different scales, the primer goes on to discuss the
importance of populations and life histories. It also emphasises
interactions between different species, a key area of understanding
for getting to grips with ecology. With a step up in scale, it then
introduces the idea of ecosystem services, and the dependence of
human life and well-being on these services. The long history of
the impact of humans on the landscape leads to a discussion of
myths such as the 'balance of nature' and 'pristine environments'.
These concepts are crucial to understanding modern ideas of the
right way to conserve our world. Using the South Sinai in Egypt as
a case study throughout, the primer explores explore the issues of
how indigenous people can maintain their traditions in the modern
world, and the relationship between their traditions and
biodiversity. These form the key to understanding how humans can
live sustainably with the natural world.
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