While a number of programs addressing conservation themes were available in the past, comprehensive approaches are just emerging. Conco mitantly, public interest has increased in a natural resource management philosophy that includes values associated with complex, diverse, and healthy ecosystems. Conservation biology, when broadly defined to include new and integrated natural and social science approaches, offers the hope for appropriate environmental management in the future. The following summaries of conservation bio log y curricula in graduate our plate in the future programs across the U.S. reflect the maturation as well as the diversity of this growing field. The graduate program descriptions we feature represent the universities that responded to our request for information.
Descriptions are limited to one paragraph with a list of up to eight representative faculty.
The program summaries reveal that the institutionalization of curricula in conservation biology varies among graduate schools. Programs run the gamut from full-fledged master's and doctoral degrees to majors, concentrations, emphases, minors and course work. The 51 programs described here serve as a menu of current training and research in the field of conservation biology and foretell what will be on out plate in the future. Literature Cited in the Original Publication Jacobson, S. K 1990. Graduate education in conservation biology.