Future Nature: A Vision for Conservation
- ISBN-10
- 1853833045
- ISBN-13
- 9781853833045
- Series
- Future Nature
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Earthscan
- Author
- William Mark Adams
Description
Future Nature analyses the problems that conservation faces and seeks the new ideas and new energy that conservation needs for the future. Concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability, and changes in our understanding, appreciation and concern for nature, offer unprecedented opportunities. The links between nature and culture are tightly intertwined, as are those between economies and the countryside. Bill Adams explores these links, and the scientific, cultural and economic significance of conservation. He argues that conservation must move beyond the boundaries of parks and reserves to embrace the whole countryside, and that it must be built into ordinary life, not isolated as a specialised product kept only in reserved places. Conservation action must be founded on the relationship between our daily lives and the natural world: its success demands a creative approach, and a recognition of the vital wilderness of nature.
The importance of conservation for the future is enormous. It holds the potential to create new spaces for nature; both in the landscape, and in our lives and imaginations. This factual, beautifully written and thought-provoking book offers a fundamental reassessment of conservation, its importance, and how to achieve it.
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