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"Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. "
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Images
- Prologue: A Patriot for Me
- 1. Past History and Deaths Foretold: A Map of Memory
- 2. (He)Art History or a Death in the Family: The Late 80s
- 3. The Sins of the Fathers: Mother and Land Revisited in the 1990s
- 4. An Interesting Condition: The Abortion Pastels
- 5. Brave New Worlds: The Birthing of Nations in First Mass in Brazil
- 6. I Am Coming to Your Kingdom, Prince Horrendous: Scary Stories for Baby, Perfect Stranger and Me
- 7. Paula and the Madonna: Who’s That Girl?
- 8. Epilogue Let Me Count the Ways I Love You
- Appendix AA Dama Pé de Cabra (The Lady with a Cloven Hoof)
- Appendix B‘Fascinação’ (‘Enchantment’)
- Works Cited
- List of Illustrations
- E-figures
- Index
