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In response to this increasingly unbridled economic agenda, conservation strategies over the last two decades have evolved from scientific, technical concerns to a consideration of broader social and political issues associated with the causes of environmental problems. Drawing upon his analysis of the failures of conservation set out in Nature and the Crisis of Modernity and The Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability, Rogers presents an activist response to environmental concerns.
He argues that these increasingly ambitious multi-stakeholder, round table conservation agendas (although they recognize the increasing complexity of environmental problems) have failed to deal with these problems because they do not challenge the economic interests that benefit from the increasingly global level playing field. Because there is an aggressive agenda which currently promotes overexploitation, any conservation initiative which hopes to be successful has to begin by resisting these forces. Not only will it be necessary to resolve issues , we may, in fact have to solve history in order to deal with environmental problems.
ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
CURRENT EVENTS Publication Date: January 1998
275 pages, bibliography, index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-112-7 $24.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-113-5 $53.99
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Raymond A. Rogers holds a PhD from York University where he is currently teaching. He is a founding member of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada and has been active in forging links between the fisheries and environmental concerns for the last five years. Author of Nature and the Crisis of Modernity and The Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability, This new title completes the trilogy.