The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World

by Jonathan S. Adams

Book Overview

With appropriate urgency and a thorough understanding of history and the issues, Jonathan Adams offers a sound conservation strategy in The Future of the Wild, using the latest in conservation science... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807085103
• ISBN13: 9780807085103
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Finally, a soution that matches the magnitude of the problem

After reading dozens of nature conservation books, it's a pleasure to read one that stands above the rest. The Future of the Wild is not "more of the same". It prescribes a new direction in conservation -- one where the size of the solutions matches the size of the problems. Adams paints a compelling vision of how conservation can succeed, then provides real world examples of how these ideas can be implemented on the ground. It's an important message, eloquently delivered.

Tree Huggers Beware

This is the best book ever on conservation of natural resourses--should be read by all: those who believe in individual property rights, those who believe in preserving our natural resources, and those who know that tradeoffs have to be made, but do not know how to articulate their beliefs. A 'must read' for any serious ecologist.

An important topic for everyone to understand better

This book presents the approaches and challenges of conservation efforts over the last few decades. I wish it had been more tightly edited -- it was repetitive and a bit tedious to read. Essentially the points of the book are: 1) The best approaches for conserving species is more of a decision based on values than hard science. The complexity of understanding everything that affects a species is too much to expect science to "know all the answers". 2) Conservaton efforts based on today's isolated parks and reserves is inadequate because they're too small. Finding ways to expand their "effective boundaries" is important. 3) The influence of man and the interplay of nature in and around parks and reserves is important to understand well enough to make effective conservation choices. 4) It's imperative to include local communities in the discussion of the issues and obtaining committment to the solutions.

A 'must' for any seriously concerned about the fate of wild animals on the planet

The conservation of isolated parks and reserves alone will fail, but there's an alternative option: one that The Future Of The Wild: Radical Conservation For A Crowded World covers. Conservationist Adams ranges across the U.S. in showing how to tie together scattered remnants of this continent's wild places. Stories about the species endangered and the possibilities of wildlife conservation corridors which can help connect and save them make for chapters which blend conservation history and biology with tales of successful partnerships among groups concerned with land and wildlife management. The Future Of The Wild: Radical Conservation For A Crowded World is a 'must' for any seriously concerned about the fate of wild animals on the planet.