Impacts of Human Population on Wildlife
Impacts of Human Population on Wildlife
Wildlife and the countryside are highly valued by people in the UK, and for good reason. Healthy habitats are invaluable assets and promote human wellbeing. However, they are under increasing threat from, among other things, relentless urban expansion and intensive modern agriculture. These pressures largely stem from a major underlying cause – the high and growing population of humans living in the UK. This book provides an overview of wildlife in the UK and its recent status; factors contributing to wildlife declines; trends in human numbers; international deliberations about the impacts of human population growth; and the implications for the future of wildlife conservation in the UK. The evidence-based text includes comparisons of wildlife declines and their causes in other countries, providing a global perspective. This book is for ecologists, naturalists and conservation biologists studying and working in academia or in consultancies, as well as all those interested in wildlife conservation.
- Provides a straightforward overview of multiple factors causing wildlife decline in Britain and puts these causes into both national and global perspectives
- Demonstrates links between factors causing wildlife decline and increases in human population, including comparative analyses with other countries
- Discusses national and international concerns about human population growth and the policies that are developed in response
Reviews & endorsements
‘… a framework that authors from a diversity of countries could use to review the status of their wildlife population resulting from the range of human impacts that are increasingly reported in the news and scientific literature. … Readers will certainly come away with a greater appreciation and deeper understanding of the human-wildlife relationship in the U.K. and globally.’ Jesse S. Lewis, Quarterly Review of Biology
Product details
October 2022Hardback
9781108833554
296 pages
234 × 156 × 19 mm
0.61kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Population matters
- 2. The state of British wildlife
- 3. Human Activities directly killing wildlife
- 4. Impacts of development on wildlife declines
- 5. Impacts of farming and forestry on wildlife declines
- 6. Climate change, disease and disturbance
- 7. The human population and wildlife in Britain and western Europe
- 8. Public perceptions of wildlife and population issues
- 9. International aspects of population growth
- 10. Conservation in a crowded country
- References
- Index.
