قراءات إضافية
بعض الكتب الدراسية
A reliable, comprehensive textbook, perfect for
undergraduates:
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Hambler, C. and Canney, S. M., 2013. Conservation. Cambridge University Press.
A classic ecological approach, built around population processes
and based on numerous case studies of enduring interest:
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Caughley, G. and Gunn, A., 1996. Conservation Biology in Theory and Practice (No. 333.9516 C3). Wiley–Blackwell.
An accomplished practitioner’s view of conservation realities on
the ground:
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Jimenez, I., 2021. Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding and Local Development. Island Press.
I edited these two collections of essays to provide enduring,
thought-provoking chapters on many of the main recurring topics in biodiversity conservation;
good introductions for undergraduates, graduate students, and other advanced
readers:
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Macdonald, D. W. and Service, K. eds., 2006. Key Topics in Conservation Biology. Wiley Blackwell.
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Macdonald, D. W. and Willis, K. J. eds., 2013. Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2. John Wiley & Sons.
بعض دراسات الحالات الإفرادية
Lion Hearted places
human–wildlife conflict and trophy hunting in the context of lion ecology, while Humans and Lions provides a remarkable historical perspective to
these highly contemporary issues:
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Loveridge, A., 2018. Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil & the Future of Africa’s Iconic Cats. Simon and Schuster.
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Somerville, K., 2019. Humans and Lions: Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence. Routledge.
The Badgers of Wytham Woods
and Restoring the Balance provide detail from long-term
field studies, showing how these inform conservation debates such as the control of
bovine TB
and the reintroduction of wolves to Isle Royale:
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Macdonald, D. W. and Newman, C. 2022. The Badgers of Wytham Woods: Models for Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press.
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Vucetich, J. A., 2021. Restoring the Balance: What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature. JHU Press.
الصراع بين الإنسان والحياة البرية
A comprehensive edited book on modern views on conflict and
coexistence:
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Frank, B., Glikman, J. A., and Marchini, S., 2019. Human–Wildlife Interactions: Turning Conflict into Coexistence. Cambridge University Press.
A sensitive, and anguished introduction to the dilemma of killing
wonderful but abundant predators to prevent them killing wonderful but imperilled
prey (the
sort of ‘wicked problem’ that characterizes much of biodiversity conservation, challenging
the
intellect, breaking the heart, and provoking irreconcilable views) is provided
by:
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Colwell, M., 2021. Beak, Tooth and Claw. William Collins.
الزراعة وإعادة الحياة البرية
The two volumes of Wildlife Conservation
on Farmland provide a diversity of chapters on different aspects of the interface
of farming and wildlife, based largely on field studies around the Wytham Estate in
Oxfordshire, UK. George Monbiot’s Regenesis is aptly
subtitled Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.
Isobel Tree’s Wilding is an inspiring account of wilding a
large estate in lowland England, whereas Pettorelli et al.’s edited book presents
wide-ranging
papers from an academic conference. Ben Macdonald’s Cornerstones deploys insightful natural history in an inspirational routemap to
rebuilding ecosystems:
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Macdonald, B., 2022. Cornerstones: Wild Forces that Can Change our World. Bloomsbury.
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Macdonald, D. W. and Feber, R. eds., 2015. Wildlife Conservation on Farmland: Managing for Nature on Lowland Farms (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press.
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Macdonald, D. W. and Feber, R. eds., 2015. Wildlife Conservation on Farmland: Conflict in the Countryside (Vol. 2). Oxford University Press.
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Monbiot, G., 2022. Regenesis. Allen Lane.
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Tree, I., 2018. Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. Pan Macmillan.
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Pettorelli, N., Durant, S., and du Toit, J. T., eds., 2019. Rewilding. Cambridge University Press.
الاقتصاد والجغرافيا السياسية
Edward Barbier’s textbook rethinks economics from the starting
point that biodiversity has been catastrophically undervalued. Two remarkably incisive
and
policy relevant books by Dieter Helm on natural capital and its value in the British
countryside, and on climate change:
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Barbier, E., 2022. Economics for a Fragile Planet. Cambridge University Press.
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Helm, D., 2019. Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside. HarperCollins UK.
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Helm, D., 2020. Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change. HarperCollins UK.
A riveting insight into the circumstances of the poorest
countries, providing a framework for thinking about biodiversity conservation in the
Global
South:
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Collier, P., 2008. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford University Press, USA.
الأخلاقيات
A gentle introduction to non-anthropocentric ethics by a plant
ecologist, introducing ideas about respect for nature:
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Kimmerer, R., 2013. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed editions.
