Conservation in Transition: Leading Change in the 21st Century

摘要

American fish and wildlife conservation took root and flourished during the 20th century, organizing around component pieces of the ecological landscape --land, water, coast, ocean, forest, range, fish and wildlife. Conservation professions and organizations emerged from these demarcations and have served well in facing issues that are largely local and confined within jurisdictional boundaries. But as the human enterprise has grown from local to regional and now global scales, conservation challenges such as poorly planned development, habitat fragmentation, pollution and water scarcity have also increased. The complexity and scale of today's conservation problems are challenging the existing organizational and professional frameworks within which the conservation community operates.