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The connection between people and the environment, built and natural, is the crux of both geography and conservation. Geographers study and conservationists worry about the environment over the same breadth of space and time. Geographers distinguish themselves from those who, like psychologists, look at the connections in finer detail. Conservationists distance themselves from other environmental managers like farmers, foresters and engineers, whom they accuse of having more limited goals. Both geographers and conservationists believe that they have to integrate many disciplines.
‘Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.’
Francis Bacon
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Further Reading
Three books can be suggested as a basis for a general introduction. The first is an up-to-date, well-written and thorough expansion of some of the ideas in this chapter. The second is a very useful guide to the ecological basis of conservation, and to some of its current concerns in the countryside. The third is a passionately argued, easily read and comprehensive account of nature conservation
Pepper D. (1984) The Roots of Modern Environmentalism (London: Croom Helm).
Green B. (1981) Countryside Conservation (London: Allen & Unwin).
Maybey R. (1980) The Common Ground. A Place for Nature in Britain’s Future (London: Hutchinson).
Two more specifically ecological studies follow. The first is a collection of essays covering the ecological basis of conversation, the application of ecology to conservation and the organisation of nature conservation in Britain. The second contains further discussion about the Sinai-Negev border area, the question of carrying capacity and the effects of acid rain
Warren A. and Goldsmith F. B. (eds) (1983) Conservation in Perspective (Chichester: John Wiley).
Warren A. and Harrison C. M. (1984) ‘People and the ecosystem: biogeography as a study of ecology and culture’, Geoforum, vol. 15, pp. 365–81.
Looking towards the development of ideas, Williams can be recommended as a seminal work on the place of the country in British culture, whilst the IUCN statement is rather bureaucratically worded, but nevertheless an important support for the doctrine that natural resources must be conserved in the process of development
Williams R. (1973) The Country and the City (London: Palladin).
IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) (1980) World Conservation Strategy (Switzerland: Gland).
Finally, the journal of the British Association of Nature Conservationists provides a quarterly source of short readable articles on contemporary issues in nature conservation under the title: Ecos: A Review of Nature Conservation (Funtington, nr. Chichester: Packard Publishing).
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Warren, A. (1987). Geography and Conservation: The Application of Ideas About People and Environment. In: Clark, M.J., Gregory, K.J., Gurnell, A.M. (eds) Horizons in Physical Geography. Horizons in Geography. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18944-1_20
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