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Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America by David E. Naugle PhD, Mark S. Boyce is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America about?

Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for securing our energy future while safeguarding our wildlife heritage. Contributors show how science can help craft solutions to conflicts between wildlife and energy development by delineating core areas, identifying landscapes that support viable populations, and forecasting future development scenarios to aid in conservation design. The book frames the issue and introduces readers to major types of extraction quantifies the pace and extent of current and future energy development provides an ecological foundation for understanding cumulative impacts on wildlife species synthesizes information on the biological response of wildlife to development discusses energy infrastructure as a conduit for the spread of invasive species compares impacts of alternative energy to those of conventional development The final section calls for a shift away from site-level management that has failed to mitigate cumulative impacts on wildlife populations toward broad-scale planning and implementation of conservation in priority landscapes. The book concludes by identifying ways that decision makers

Who reads Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
David E. Naugle PhD, Mark S. Boyce
Publisher
Island Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781597266574
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Western, Nature, Science

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