Conservation Biology

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"We wrote this book to inspire the next generation of conservation biologists to help humans become better stewards of the world's biodiversity. In doing so, our desire was to fill two key gaps in the education of most conservation biologists that are beginning their studies. This first gap is interdisciplinary training. Most textbooks of conservation and most university courses in conservation focus on the discipline's historical roots in the natural sciences (e.g., botany, ecology) and disciplines of natural resource management (e.g., forestry, fisheries, wildlife management). But conservation is no longer a group of ecologists, wildlife biologists, or fisheries scientists trying to save their favorite species in a dwindling habitat. The modern practice of conservation relies on numerous disciplines from the social sciences that account for human behaviors, values, needs, and decision making. Modern conservation relies on disciplines from engineering and architecture to help plan, design, and construct practical solutions to problems. And finally, modern conservation relies on disciplines from the humanities that compose law and policy, and that communicate effectively through li

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