Tropical Conservation

Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities
Herausgeber: Aguirre, A Alonso; Sukumar, Raman

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Produktbeschreibung

Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities is intended to be a key resource on the biodiversity conservation crisis in the tropics and subtropics for university professors, university students, researchers, practitioners in grassroots local community organizations, technical staff of non-profit conservation and development organizations, wildlife managers and other technicians in the resource extraction industries, government andpolicy makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780199766987
• ISBN-10: 0199766983
• Artikelnr.: 47867617

Autorenporträt

A. Alonso Aguirre is Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Raman Sukumar is a Professor at the Center of Ecological Sciences and Divecha Centre for Climate Change in Bangalore, India.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Preface: Origins of the Wildlife Trust Alliance
* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Part I: Conserving Biodiversity and Ecological Functionality in Human
Dominated Landscapes
* 1. Introduction: Why Tropical Conservation?
* 2. Beyond Protected Areas: Defining a New Geography for Biodiversity
Conservation
* 3. Sustainable Landscapes and Corridors to Conserve Asian Elephants
in India: Successes, Challenges, and Prospects
* 4. The Use of Selected Species in Landscape Planning and Restoration
of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
* Case Study 1. Howler monkeys as mobile links in human impacted
landscapes
* Case Study 2. Considerations for biodiversity conservation in modern
megacities: Lessons from Jakarta, Indonesia
* 5. Evaluating the Role of Amazon Protected Areas Program and Anti
Deforestation Policies for Supplying Hydropower, Avoiding Carbon
Emissions, and Economic Returns in the Brazilian Amazon
* 6. Evaluating the Links Between Biodiversity, Land-Use Change and
Infectious Disease Emergence in Tropical Fragmented Landscapes
* 7. The Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystems in
India
* Case Study 3. The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the
Aichi Biodiversity Targets
* Part II: Resolving Conflicts Between Wildlife and Humans in the
Tropics and Subtropics
* 8. Southern Andean Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution: From Livestock
Predation to the Impact of Animal Welfare in the 21st Century
* Case Study 4. The ecological basis of wildlife-human conflicts:
Evidence from the Tropics
* Case Study 5. Large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes in India
* Case Study 6. Gorilla-human conflicts in Africa
* 9. From Threat to Opportunity: Strategies for Bat Conservation
* 10. Invasive Plants in the Tropics and the Case of Lantana camara
* 11. Current Conservation Issues Affecting Dolphins in the Tropics
* Case Study 7. African Manatees: Transboundary challenges and
conservation planning
* 12. Ecology, Conservation, and Policy Implications of North Pacific
Loggerhead Turtles
* Part III: Approaches to Conserving Species: Emerging Lessons and New
Science
* 13. Species Distribution Models: New Tools and New Approaches for
Managing and Conserving Threatened and Endangered Wildlife in
Ethiopia
* 14. Integrated Genetic Approaches for the Conservation of Tropical
and Subtropical Species
* 15. Conservation Genetics, Taxonomy and Management Applications in
Neotropical Deer
* Case Study 8. Why Neotropical Forest Ungulates Matter
* 16. State of the Art Meta-Population Conservation: The Case of the
Black Lion Tamarin
* 17. Ecology and Conservation of Jaguars in Mexico: State of Knowledge
and Future Challenges
* 18. Insect Pollinators in Decline: Conservation Challenges in the
Tropics
* Case Study 9. Conservation of insects in a marine national park in
Indonesia
* Case Study 10. Using beekeeping as a sustainable development tool
* Part IV: Integrating Conservation and Sustainable Use: The Management
of Wild Living Resources
* 19. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in, from, and through Morocco, a
Gateway to Europe
* Case Study 11. The illegal trade in Barbary macaques and the link to
the Moroccan diaspora in Europe
* Case Study 12. Detecting poaching from natural populations using
genetic forensic approaches
* 20. Bushmeat, Food Security, and Conservation in African Rainforests
* 21. Successes and Failures of Crocodile Conservation Strategies in
the Asia Pacific
* Case Study 13. Edible nest swiftlet management in Indonesia
* Case Study 14. A bug for conservation!
* 22. Conservation and Livestock Production in Tropical Mexico: The
Need for Sustainable Options
* Case Study 15. Ecological Services Enhancing Agricultural Landscapes
in Indonesia
* 23. Conservation as the New Paradigm for Development
* Part V: Building Capacity to Sustain Conservation: People,
Institutions, and Networks
* 24. Innovations in Capacity Building in Conservation and
Sustainability: Linking Theory and Practice and Creating Innovative
Approaches to Education
* 25. Strengthening Capacity for Biodiversity Conservation in the
Southern Tropical Andes through Partnerships of Educators and
Practitioners
* 26. Good Governance in Tourism-Conservation Partnerships: Lessons
from Kenya
* Case Study 16. Conservation and sustainable tourism in the lower Rio
Negro Basin, Brazil
* 27. Local and Regional Capacity for Identifying, Predicting and
Responding to Zoonotic Diseases from Free-Ranging Wildlife in
Colombia
* 28. Challenges to Building and Sustaining Local Non-Governmental
Organizations
* Case Study 17. Wildlife Trust of India: Emergence and Establishment
of a National Conservation Action NGO in India
* Case Study 18. Building Human Capacity in the Tropics: Experiences
from Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
* 29. Afterword: Challenges and Future Directions in Tropical
Conservation