Conserving Living Natural Resources
Subtitle: In the Context of a Changing World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780521782708
Subjects: Conservation of wildlife & habitats; Nature/Ecology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Conservation Of Natural Resources (General); Nature; Science; Natural resources; Life Sciences - Ecology; Environmental Science; Science / Biology; Science / Ecology; Science : Environmental Science; Science : Life Sciences - Biology - General; Conservation of natural resour; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Conservation biology; Conservation of natural resources; Management
First sentence: This statement, by George Perkins Marsh - a nineteenth-century American diplomat, conservationist, and writer - expresses a concept that can be traced in western thought as far back as ancient Greece: the idea that nature in the absence of human intervention is in a state of balance which changes little over long periods of time.