Fate of the Wild - The Endangered Species Act and the Future of Biodiversity

Informationen zum Autor BONNIE B. BURGESS is an adjunct instructor of biodiversity and wildlife conservation in Johns Hopkins University's Advanced Academic Programs, and of environmental sciences at Marymount University. She has been a public educator at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park since 1995. Klappentext In Fate of the Wild Bonnie B. Burgess offers an illuminating assembly of facts about biodiversity and straightforward analysis of the legislative stalemate surrounding the Endangered Species Act. Fate of the Wild surveys the history of and analyzes the conflict over the legislation itself; the heated issues regarding its enforcement; and the land-use and habitat battles waged between conservationists! environmental activists! and private property proponents. Zusammenfassung a factual and balanced discussion of the various sides of the contemporary debate over the Endangered Species Act, alongside the author's clearly stated position: We are overpopulating, polluting, and overdeveloping our environment, and as a species we have embarked on a crash course toward a sixth great extinction event on this Earth.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Burgess, Bonnie B Burgess, Bonnie B. Burgess
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2003
• EAN: 9780820324920
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2492-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Endangered Species ACT and the; Endangered Species ACT and the
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife