Overview
- The only book that integrates the topics of Peak Oil, economic growth, and wildlife conservation
- Offers a multi-disciplinary approach that will be useful for wildlife and conservation ecologists, natural resource managers, planners, and policy-makers, economists and more
- Peak Oil is one of the most important issues affecting humankind in this century
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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The proposed book focuses on one of the most important issues affecting humankind in this century - Peak Oil or the declining availability of abundant, cheap energy—and its effects on our industrialized economy and wildlife conservation. Energy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st Century directly affecting wildlife conservation wherever energy extraction is a primary economic activity and indirectly through deepening economic recessions. Since cheap, abundant energy has been at the core of our industrial society, and has resulted in the technological advancements we enjoy today, the peak in world oil extraction would potentially have major impacts on civilization unless we prepare well in advance. One potential economic solution covered in the book would be a Steady State Economy with a stable population and per capita consumption, particularly in such industrialized countries as the United States. Furthermore, the lack of cheap, abundant energy directly and indirectly affects conservation efforts by professional societies and federal and state agencies, and NGOs concerned with wildlife issues. We need to recognize these potential problems and prepare, as much as possible, for the consequences stemming from them.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamental Conflicts
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Front Matter
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Wildlife Conservation and the Future
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation
Editors: J. Edward Gates, David L. Trauger, Brian Czech
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1954-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1953-6Published: 20 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5424-7Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1954-3Published: 20 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 346
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Nature Conservation, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Economic Growth