Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture

by Peter Coppolillo and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Book Overview

Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "protected" for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries. In all but a small fraction of the earth's land area, then, conservation and people must coexist. Conservation is a resource for all those who aim to reconcile biodiversity with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691049807
• ISBN13: 9780691049809
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.9" x 7.0"