Gill Aitken
Ashgate
Hardback
218
2004
Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity it is believed is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing the need to halt extinction and value biodiversity it shows that biodiversity needs to be understood perhaps being replaced by the notion of wildness .