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Author: Susan M. Cheyne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-04-20
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1108479413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together current research and practice on gibbon conservation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics.
Author: Alison M. Behie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1108756883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes a new approach to understanding primate conservation research, adding a personal perspective to allow readers to learn what motivates those doing conservation work. When entering the field over a decade ago, many young primatologists were driven by evolutionary questions centered in behavioural ecology. However, given the current environment of cascading extinctions and increasing threats to primates we now need to ensure that primates remain in viable populations in the wild before we can simply engage in research in the context of pure behavioural ecology. This has changed the primary research aims of many primatologists and shifted our focus to conservation priorities, such as understanding the impacts of human activity, habitat conversion or climate change on primates. This book presents personal narratives alongside empirical research results and discussions of strategies used to stem the tide of extinction. It is a must-have for anyone interested in conservation research.
Author: Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1107134315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.
Author: Nicholas Malone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-24
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0429556918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dialectical Primatologist identifies the essential parameters vital for the continued coexistence of hominoids (apes and humans), synthesising primate research and conservation in order to develop culturally compelling conservation strategies required for the facilitation of hominoid coexistence. As unsustainable human activities threaten many primate species with extinction, effective conservation strategies for endangered primates will depend upon our understanding of behavioural response to human-modified habitats. This is especially true for the apes, who are arguably our most powerful connection to the natural world. Recognising the inseparability of the natural and the social, the dialectical approach in this book highlights the heterogeneity and complexity of ecological relationships. Malone stresses that ape conservation requires a synthesis of nature and culture that recognises their inseparability in ecological relationships that are both biophysically and socially formed, and seeks to identify the pathways that lead to either hominoid coexistence or, alternatively, extinction. This book will be of keen interest to academics in biological anthropology, primatology, environmental anthropology, conservation and human–animal studies.
Author: Kerry M. Dore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1107109965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.
Author: Alison M. Behie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 110715748X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.
Author: Ikki Matsuda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1108421385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering colobine biology, behaviour, ecology and conservation, this book summarises current knowledge of this fascinating group of primates.
Author: Kimberly Chong
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1478002379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global “best practices.” Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.
Author: Ulrich H. Reichard
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-08-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1493956140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides insight into gibbon diet and community ecology, the mating system and reproduction, and conservation biology, all topics which represent areas of substantial progress in understanding socio-ecological flexibility and conservation needs of the hylobatid family. This work analyzes hylobatid evolution by synthesizing recent and ongoing studies of molecular phylogeny, morphology, and cognition in a framework of gibbon and siamang evolution. With its clearly different perspective, this book is written to be read, referenced, and added to the bookshelves of scientists, librarians, and the interested public.
Author: Hannah Knox
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-08-24
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1478012404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.
