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+ Biology
- Ecology, genetics, populations, communities,
biogeography, disease
+ Natural
- Technology, engineering, sustainability
+ Social
What is conservation
- Values, ethics, culture, policy, beliefs, government,
biology?
law
+ Economic
- Profits, incentives, wealth, poverty
_ Concerned with detecting problems
_ Concerned with evaluating problems
- A multidisciplinary science
- It is a crisis discipline
Conservation Bio Not an
- Decisions need to be made quickly and with limited
Exact Science
information
, - Dying anyway: beyond urgency
- Can be saved: absolute urgency
- Will live anyway: relative urgency
- Trying to figure out what situation is most dire in
Triage terms of success
- The species or ecosystem you're most drawn to
work on is the one which is most critically endangered
but still has hope of survival with immediate
intervention
- Preservationist ethic
Romantic-transcendental
- Muir, Thoreau, Emerson
conservation
- Preservation for spiritual value
- Sustainable resource production
Resource conservation - Sustainable, "wise" use of resources
ethic - Pinchot
- (Leopold) man as part of complex ecology
- Man as part of complex ecology
Evolutionary-ecologic - Leopold
land ethic - Explores how we can make use of these systems to
include humans in them - we are part of the system
- Began to see use of pesticides for agriculture
- Biomagnification occurred with DDT use because it
was released in small quantities but its presence had a
Conservation in the 1950's
far reach as it spread up the food chain
- Jumpstarted the idea for more environmental
conscientiousness
Preservation vs. - Preservation: leave it alone
Conservation - Conservation: use it wisely
- The idea that these are benefits people get from the
Ecosystem Services
natural world