By Michael L. Rosenzweig

As humanity presses down inexorably at the flora and fauna, humans debate the level to which we will be able to keep the Earth's thousands of other species with no sacrificing human financial welfare. yet is that this argument clever? needs to the human and common worlds be adversaries?
during this ebook, ecologist Michael Rosenzweig reveals that ecological technology truly rejects such polarization. in its place it means that, to achieve success, conservation needs to become aware of how we will be able to mix a wealthy flora and fauna into the area of financial task. This progressive, universal flooring among improvement and conservation is named reconciliation ecology: developing and protecting species-friendly habitats within the very locations the place humans dwell, paintings, or play.
The booklet bargains many inspiring examples of the nice effects already accomplished. the character Conservancy, for example, has a cooperative contract with the dept of protection, with greater than two hundred conservation initiatives occurring on greater than a hundred and seventy bases in forty-one states. In locations resembling Elgin Air strength Base, the human uses-testing munitions, ecocnomic timbering and recreation--continue, yet populations of numerous threatened species at the base, akin to the long-leaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker, were vastly greater. The secure Harbor technique of the Fish & flora and fauna carrier encourages inner most landowners to enhance their estate for endangered species, hence overcoming the accidental risks of the Endangered Species Act. And Golden Gate Park, which started as a method of sand dunes, has develop into, via human attempt, a global of ponds and shrubs, waterfowl and bushes.
Rosenzweig exhibits that reconciliation ecology is the lacking software of conservation, the sensible, scientifically established process that, whilst additional to the remaining, will clear up the matter of retaining Earth's species.