Elsevier Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power

Product Description Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power helps equip scientists working on environmental and sustainability challenges with new tactics for success. Global efforts and cooperation by member states of environmental conventions have steadily increased but lack efficient and scalable mechanisms of translating conservation science to policy. The gap between science and policy is growing and very little time remains before the climate change and biodiversity lossess trigger widespread disruptions of the planet's life support systems. This book covers these important topics, providing a must read for environmental and conservation scientists, climate change activists, students, social scientists, economic professionals, sustainable businesses and policymakers. Review Provides case studies of projects, interventions and initiatives in policy engagements that help conserve global biodiversity and the environment From the Back Cover Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power equips scientists working on practical solutions to environmental and sustainability challenges. Global efforts and cooperation by member states of environmental conventions have steadily increased but lack efficient and scalable mechanisms of translating conservation science to policy. The gap between science and policy is growing when it comes to the environment, even more so in developing countries where biodiversity is richest and under major threat. There is a need to more fully identify successes, failures and scalable lessons in this rapidly growing need for fundamental conservation science and policy integration globally. Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power is a must read for environmental and conservation scientists and students, social scientists, economic professionals, sustainable businesses, and policy makers. About the Author Dominick DellaSala, Ph. D, is Chief Scientist of Wild Heritage, a project of the Earth Island Institute, and former President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America. He is an internationally renowned scholar of over 200 publications on forest ecology, endangered species, conservation biology, and climate change. Dominick has given keynote talks ranging from academic conferences to the United Nations Earth Summit. He has been featured in hundreds of news stories and documentaries, testified in the US congress numerous times, and received conservation leadership and book writing awards. He is on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, co-chief editor of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, The World’s Biomes, and Encyclopedia of Conservation; Co-editor the Ecological Importance of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix (Elsevier), editor and author of the award winning Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation; and subject editor of several scientific journals. He is driven by a passion to save life on Earth for his daughters, grandkids, and future generations.