MYTH AND REALITY IN THE RAIN FOREST.: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa - Couverture souple

Oates, John Frederick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520222520 ISBN 13 : 9780520222526

Editeur : University of California Press, 1999

Synopsis

n Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest, John Oates tackles one of the most serious challenges facing the world's conservation leaders today: How can the needs of wildlands and wildlife bc reconciled with the needs of people? Current conservation theory holds that wildlife can best be conserved through promoting human economic development. Oates disagrees. Drawing on more than thirty years' experience as a primate ecologist in West Africa and India, Oates argues that the linking of conservation to economic development has had disastrous consequences for many wildlife populations in the rain forest zone of West Africa. Oates contends that conservation agencies must recognize that economic development is intrinsically incompatible with conservation goals. He urges that conservation planners return to the principle on which many conservation organizations were founded: that nature is worthy of protection for its intrinsic value, as a precious heritage for all of us.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John F. Oates is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and The Graduate School, City University of New York. His most recent books include African Primates: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (1996) and Colobine Monkeys: Their Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution (with A. G. Davies, 1994). He has over thirty years of field experience in biological research and conservation in West Africa, East Africa, and India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520222520
• ISBN 13: 9780520222526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338
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