The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Vol. 2: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes

A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewingthe Conservation Promise, published by Island Press in fall 2005, thisnew book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversityin the United States by revisiting some basic questions in conservation:What are we trying to protect and why? What are the limitsof species-based conservation? Can we develop new conservationstrategies that are more ecologically and economically viable than pastapproaches?