Environmental Conservation & Protection of Plants & Wildlife, Natural Resource Law, Conservation Policies

Endangered Species

Name: Endangered Species
Author: Clifford J. Sherry
ISBN: 9780874368109

by Clifford J. Sherry

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Overview

An extensive list of print and nonprint resources is provided to facilitate further research. With the world's attention now focused on this vital issue, this volume will prove indispensable to school, public, and academic libraries.

Synopsis

Library Journal

This latest in the publisher's excellent "Contemporary World Issues" reference series focuses on endangered species and serves as a valuable complement to Anne Becher's Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook (LJ 9/1/98). The heart of the book comprises two hefty chapters on endangered species legislation and litigation; also included are an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the subject, biographical sketches, descriptions of general as well as species-specific organizations involved with the endangered species controversy, a chronology, a glossary, and annotated lists of both print and nonprint resources. Although Sherry, a neurobiologist and the author of ABC-CLIO's Animal Rights (LJ 3/15/95), is less thorough than Becher (organizational descriptions lack web site and E-mail addresses, annotations tend to be briefer) and a bit more dry (one has no idea how he feels about the endangered species controversy), this handbook should prove useful in most school, academic, and public libraries.--Lynn C. Badger, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville

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Library Journal

This latest in the publisher's excellent "Contemporary World Issues" reference series focuses on endangered species and serves as a valuable complement to Anne Becher's Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook LJ 9/1/98. The heart of the book comprises two hefty chapters on endangered species legislation and litigation; also included are an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the subject, biographical sketches, descriptions of general as well as species-specific organizations involved with the endangered species controversy, a chronology, a glossary, and annotated lists of both print and nonprint resources. Although Sherry, a neurobiologist and the author of ABC-CLIO's Animal Rights LJ 3/15/95, is less thorough than Becher organizational descriptions lack web site and E-mail addresses, annotations tend to be briefer and a bit more dry one has no idea how he feels about the endangered species controversy, this handbook should prove useful in most school, academic, and public libraries.--Lynn C. Badger, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville

Booknews

This sourcebook considers species extinction as the product of both natural selection and human activity; it then suggests ways to minimize the latter cause, and estimates the cost to human civilization of such efforts. Offers a chronology of events related to endangered species, biographical sketches of noted proponents of preservation, an overview of pertinent US legislation and litigation as well as international treaties, a directory of organizations, and annotated listings of print and nonprint resources. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.