Managing Habitats for Conservation

by William J. Sutherland (Editor)

As it becomes ever more expensive to purchase land for conservation purposes, it is becoming increasingly important both to manage existing sites properly and to create new habitats. This comprehensive volume provides a pragmatic, habitat-by-habitat guide to conservation management, in which the prescriptions and methods are based on sound science coupled with practical experience. For each habitat, the book guides the reader through the options and solutions, highlights potential problems, and gives good and bad examples of habitat management in the past. This will be required reading for all practicing ecologists, land managers, wardens, landscape architects and conservationists, and will provide a valuable reference for students of ecology, conservation and environmental science.

Genres: Ecology, Reference, Natural History

420 pages, Paperback

First published May 26, 1995

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to follow with good explanations of the best management for a range of habitats, very useful to have when working in the environmental management sector.

On reading this for the second time and with a number of years working in the ecology sector under my belt (okay maybe more than a few!) I appreciate the value of this book all the more. Since its publication no other texts have brought together all of the main principles of managing habitats for conservation in quite the same way making this book invaluable to anyone who needs to create, reinstate or restore habitats for ecological or conservation reasons. Sutherland not only covers almost everything from general principles to specific habitat types, he does so in an accessible and easy to read way that avoids jargon and gimmics in favour of simple and straight forward language and evidence based ideas.