The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years ofconservation achievements in the UK are now being confronted by a newcomplexion of economic forces that are driving change in thecountryside. At the same time new ideas in conservation are alteringthe role that conservation is being asked to play in negotiating thetransition from past to future.

This revised edition of Bill Adams classic work FutureNature tackles the new challenges in the countryside and wildlifeconservation head-on through a new Introduction and Postscript withupdated arguments about naturalness and our social engagement withnature, and complemented by a new Foreword by Adrian Phillips.

Concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability, and changes in ourunderstanding, appreciation and concern for nature, offer unprecedentedopportunities. Bill Adams explores the scientific, cultural andeconomic significance of conservation. He argues that conservation mustmove beyond the boundaries of parks and reserves to embrace the wholecountryside.

The importance of conservation for the future is enormous. It holdsthe potential to create new spaces for nature, both in the landscapeand in our lives and imaginations. This factual, beautifully writtenand thought-provoking book offers a fundamental reassessment ofconservation, its importance, and how to achieve it.

This is a book in the genre of Wordsworth - emotion recollected in tranquillity ... I thoroughly recommend Future Nature to all those involved in taking conservation into the next millennium. -- Prof. Michael Winter, Director of the Centre for Rural Research and head of the School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, Exeter University

About the Author
Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, an editor of Decolonizing Nature: strategies for conservation in a post-colonial era (Earthscan, 2002) and the author of Green Development: environment and sustainability in the Third World.

Reviews

'Adams wants us to begin thinking about nature in the city and of the city as part of nature. Our suburbs no longer separate city from the countryside. This is what we have left. Because half of the planet's six billion people now live in cities, we need to focus on making the city livable. Bringing nature into it may be crucial.'
Review of Radical Political Economics

'Well documented and beautifully written, there are lessons to be learned from this well-told story.'
Marilyn K. Alaimo, garden writer and library volunteer, Chicago Botanic Garden. Current Books on Gardening and Botany, April 2004.

Book Information
ISBN 9781853839986
Author William M. Adams
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Earthscan Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 499g