Environmental Conservation

by Raymond F. Dasmann

A major and complete revision of this widely used text for undergraduate environmental conservation courses, concerned with the human environment and its resources, and with the need for achieving an ecologically sustainable economy while maintaining biotic and cultural diversity. The approach encompasses world resources and environments but focuses on the United States and its relationship to the global environment and economy.`I have used several editions in my teaching (Geography 350: Conservation and Ecology in America). His volume is still the best.'

496 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Raymond Frederic Dasmann (born 1919), whose research and writings about threats to the natural world helped mold the modern environmental movement, was a UC Berkeley-trained field biologist who began talking about the need for environmental conservation in the late 1950s, almost two decades before the concept took hold in the American mainstream.

Although not a household name like Rachel Carson or Jacques Cousteau, he is considered a luminary of environmentalism whose intellectual contributions include the concept of "eco-development," or sustainable development, the idea that a community's progress should not rely on exploitation of its natural resources.

Reviews

[Foxtower · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those college textbooks that shaped my braoder understanding of the world. I rmember being fascinated by some of the facts, like soil types, and enjoyed discussing the issues around conservation.. long befor eit became important and popular. The sad part is, even though people have known this stuff for many year, civilization is still too often characterized by waste.