Earthscan Conservation and Development
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to conservation and development, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Conservation and Sustainable Development: Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Davies
October 14, 2024
The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...
Conservation and Development in India: Reimagining Wilderness
1st Edition
Edited
By Shonil Bhagwat
June 30, 2020
Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples’ place in the country’s natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty alleviation in India. It opens up discussion of the ...
Conservation and Development in Uganda
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Sandbrook, Connor Joseph Cavanagh, David Mwesigye Tumusiime
June 30, 2020
Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and ...
Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia: Challenges in a Changing Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Serge Morand, Claire Lajaunie, Rojchai Satrawaha
April 15, 2019
Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. These changes characterize the recent period and can be illustrated by the effects of the Green Revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the ...
Conservation and Development in Cambodia: Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Milne, Sango Mahanty
June 16, 2017
Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia. After suffering conflict and stagnation in the late twentieth century, Cambodia has ...
Just Conservation: Biodiversity, Wellbeing and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Adrian Martin
May 03, 2017
Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these efforts have too often resulted in unjust social outcomes in which people living in or near to areas designated for ...
Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivan R. Scales
April 01, 2016
Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and ...