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What is Endangered Species: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) about?
A detailed exploration of the variety of threats that endangered species are facing around the world, whether they are due to human impact or so-called natural causes. Endangered species is a more complex issue and problem than it may seem on the surface. What species are endangered, and what is causing them to become vulnerable to population decline? How can essential industries such as farming, housing development, and manufacturing continue to thrive without harming flora and fauna that are protected? Are current efforts adequate or should more be done to protect endangered species? And who should be responsible for the substantial costs of working to save endangered species? Endangered Species: A Reference Handbook begins with an introduction that addresses major threats and extinctions in history, discusses the geographical and cultural contexts in which these incidents happened, highlights other key moments along the endangered species timeline, and clearly shows why the topic of endangered species matters. The following sections examine an unbiased synthesis of classic and contemporary studies that inform the issue of endangered species and outline the most controversial eve
Who reads Endangered Species: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jan A. Randall
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO, LLC; ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ACB-CLIO, LLC; ABC-CLIO
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9798216079514
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Nature, Biology, Science
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