Copyright
John W. Wilson; Richard B. PrimackPublished On
2019-09-08ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
694 pages (xxxiv+660)Dimensions
Weight
Media
Funding
- The Lounsbery Foundation
OCLC Number
1193076125LCCN
2019452860THEMA
- RNC
- RNK
- WNC
BIC
- 1HF
- RNKH
- RNC
BISAC
- NAT010000
- NAT011000
- SCI026000
- NAT001000
LCC
- QH77.A37
Keywords
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- textbook
- conservation
- biodiversity
- environmental laws
- protected areas management
- sustainability
- poverty
- human-wildlife conflict
- Africa
- textbook
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region.
Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography.
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
Endorsements
Johnny Wilson, who I have known since he was a wee undergraduate in South Africa has just published an excellent text book on conservation. He's done so with Richard Primack, who has an unrivalled record of texts on conservation. It's very good indeed. And, it's free to download. Very well done, gentlemen, and my sincere thanks for your commitment to making science readily available to those who often cannot afford expensive text books. Kudos all round.
Stuart Pimm
Founder and President of Saving Nature and the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation at Duke University
Reviews
Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears,” Paul Simon once sang. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa is an extremely well-written and beautifully illustrated magnum opus on almost all things biological that pertain to the difficult subject of conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. It can be viewed as a primer on ecology, a call to arms and, almost, a cry of despair as much as a reference on conservation. I found that I could only read a small part each time I opened it. The facts and problems, given in such lucid and easy-to-read detail, are enough to make you cry. It requires courage to face the existential problems that confront wildlife (and indeed humans) in Africa. That the authors have done so, and even offer glimpses of hope, is to be applauded, as is their decision to make the book available for free on the internet.
Derek Charlwood
"Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa". The Biologist (0006-3347), 2019.
Additional Resources
We will soon be launching a teaching platform on which you will be able to share your notes, lesson plans and presentations with other teachers and academics in the field of conservation biology. If you are interested in uploading your teaching material to this platform, you can do so here. Please, notify John W. Wilson at johnnybirder@gmail.com after uploading your content.
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Contents
What is Conservation Biology?
(pp. 1–22)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Introduction to Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 23–60)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
What is Biodiversity?
(pp. 61–90)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Why Should We Protect Biodiversity?
(pp. 91–132)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
The Scramble for Space
(pp. 133–166)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Our Warming World
(pp. 167–202)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Pollution, Overharvesting, Invasive Species, and Disease
(pp. 203–256)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Extinction Is Forever
(pp. 257–296)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Applied Population Biology
(pp. 297–326)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Conserving Ecosystems
(pp. 327–376)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Preventing Extinctions
(pp. 377–430)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Biodiversity and the Law
(pp. 431–464)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
The Importance of Protected Areas
(pp. 465–518)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
Conservation on Unprotected Lands
(pp. 519–558)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack
An Agenda for the Future
(pp. 559–588)- John Wilson
- Richard Primack