Win-Win Ecology Test Bank, 11th Edition by Michael Rosenzweig

Reconciling Human Enterprise and Conservation

As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth’s millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare.

A Revolutionary Approach to Conservation

Ecologist Michael Rosenzweig finds that ecological science actually rejects such polarization. Instead, it suggests that conservation must discover how we can blend a rich natural world into the world of economic activity.

Reconciliation Ecology in Action

• The Nature Conservancy has a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense, with more than 200 conservation projects taking place on more than 170 bases in 41 states.
• The Safe Harbor strategy of the Fish & Wildlife Service encourages private landowners to improve their property for endangered species.
• Golden Gate Park, which began as a system of sand dunes, has become, through human effort, a world of ponds and shrubs, waterfowl and trees.

Rosenzweig shows that reconciliation ecology is the missing tool of conservation, the practical, scientifically based approach that, when added to the rest, will solve the problem of preserving Earth’s species.