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Bird versus Bulldozer

A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot

By: Audrey Mayer

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Bird versus Bulldozer

A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot

By: Audrey Mayer

An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher The story of the rare coastal California gnatcatcher is a parable for understanding the larger ongoing struggle to conserve biodiversity in regions confronted with intensifying urban development. Because this gnatcatcher depends on vanishing coastal sage scrub in Southern California, it has been regarded as a flagship species for biodiversity protection since the early 1990s. But the uncertainty of the gnatcatcher’s taxonomic classification—and whether it can be counted as a “listable unit” under the Endangered Species Act—has provoked contentious debate among activists, scientists, urban developers, and policy makers. Synthesizing insights from ecology, environmental history, public policy analysis, and urban planning as she tracks these debates over the course of the past twenty-five years, Audrey L. Mayer presents an ultimately optimistic take on the importance of much-neglected regional conservation planning strategies to create sustainable urban landscapes that benefit humans and wildlife alike.

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0300258607

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The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability

By: Heriberto Cabezas,Urmila M Diwekar,Michael Narodoslawsky,Audrey L Mayer,Csaba Deák

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The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability

By: Heriberto Cabezas,Urmila M Diwekar,Michael Narodoslawsky,Audrey L Mayer,Csaba Deák

The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability is a comprehensive foundational look at sustainability science, developed directly from the outcomes and learnings of the Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability (TARDIS) workshop that has been ongoing since 2004. The TARDIS workshops are a unique event and so are the collected insights resulting from the TARDIS discussions on the applications, recent developments and future insights of sustainability science. Given the large body of contributed works over multiple decades all sharing the concept and theme of sustainability, this book brings together the most thorough recent advances in concepts, theories, methods, models, and applications to steer the course of development away from the current course toward a sustainable and resilient future. This provides a source of information on sustainability science directly from the experiences of global sustainability scientists and their research data not found elsewhere. The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability will form an all-encompassing source of information on all aspects of sustainability science for academics, researchers and students in sustainability science, and any applicable science that takes sustainability into account.

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0128245298

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Bird versus Bulldozer

A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot

By: Christa Dierksheide

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A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot

By: Christa Dierksheide

An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher “A well-written and thoroughly researched book. . . . Provides a detailed examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban areas.”—Susan Catherine Cork, Conservation Biology The story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher is a parable for understanding the larger ongoing struggle to conserve biodiversity in regions confronted with intensifying urban development. Because this gnatcatcher depends on vanishing coastal sage scrub in Southern California, it has been regarded as a flagship species for biodiversity protection since the early 1990s. But the uncertainty of the gnatcatcher’s taxonomic classification—and whether it can be counted as a “listable unit” under the Endangered Species Act—has provoked contentious debate among activists, scientists, urban developers, and policy makers. Synthesizing insights from ecology, environmental history, public policy analysis, and urban planning as she tracks these debates over the course of the past twenty-five years, Audrey L. Mayer presents an ultimately optimistic take on the importance of much-neglected regional conservation planning strategies to create sustainable urban landscapes that benefit humans and wildlife alike.

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Bird versus Bulldozer

Bird versus Bulldozer

The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability

The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchanges on Sustainability

Bird versus Bulldozer

Bird versus Bulldozer

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