Foundations of Environmental Sustainability

"Many courses taught by ecologists, new undergraduate curricula in ecology and environmental studies, and many new innovative graduate programs are attempting to break the shackles of disciplinary thinking. Foundations of Environmental Sustainability models this type of interdisciplinary study both in terms of specific cases and by offering all of its authors as role models, who like Lee Talbot, recognize that our science can guide the decision-makingprocess and implementation of programs that may help sustain ecosystems and their processes."--Ecology"Essential reading for policymakers and scientists alike, [Foundations of Environmental Sustainability] offers a balanced appraisal of the global state of sustainable practice, past and present."--Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment

• 1. The Environmental Movement in the United States ; 2. International Environmental Policy: Some Recollections and Reflections ; 3. The Global 2000 Report and Its Aftermath ; 4. Sustainable Conservation: Can It Be Done? ; 5. Conservation of Sensitve Biodiversity Areas ; 6. Protected Areas: Science, Policy and Management to Meet the Challenges of Global Change in the 21st century ; 7. Ecological and Intellectual Baselines: Saving Lions, Tigers and Rhinos in Asia ; 8. Observations on Trends and Issues in Global Conservation ; 9. Half Century of American Range Ecology and Management: A Retrospective, ; 10. Policy Failures in African Rangeland Development ; 11. The Role of Science and Scientists in Changing Forest Service Management Relative to Sustainability ; 12. Sustainable Use of Marine Living Resources: Notion or Myth? ; 13. Marine Mammal Conservation ; 14. Marine Wildlife Policy: Underlying Ideologies ; 15. Overcoming Barriers to Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development, Leif E. Christoffersen ; 16. The Global Challenge of Sustainable Development ; 17. Biodiversity Conservation in the Real World: Incentives Disincentives and Disconnects ; 18. Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century ; 19. Conservation and Development: The Nam Theun 2 Dam Project in Laos ; 20. A Biocultural Basis for an Ethic toward the Natural Environment ; 21. International Environmental Legal Instruments ; 22. The Evolution of Sustainability in Forest Management Policy ; 23. The Future of Ecology and the Ecology of the Future ; 24. A New Environmentalism: Conservation and the Core of Governmental Purpose ; 25. Climate Change and Prospects for Sustainability