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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joe Roman |
| ISBN: | 9780674047518 0674047516 |
| OCLC Number: | 676725398 |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Reed Environmental Writing Award 2012. |
| Description: | [vii], 360 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue : Boiling Spring -- In the name of the darter -- The Class of '67 -- Notes from the vortex -- The Endangered Species Act -- A handy handle -- Natural capital -- Magical thinking -- Grand experiments -- The panther's new genes -- Safe harbor -- Crying wolves -- Skating over thin ice -- Raising whales -- Questing -- The Hundred Acre Wood -- In which we upset the ethnobotanists -- Water wars -- The most beautiful sound -- The platinum blonde and the farm girl -- Epilogue : Extinction's in the house. |
| Responsibility: | Joe Roman. |
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[Roman] provides a memorable dispatch on the fate of endangered species. Kirkus Reviews 20110315 In Listed, conservation biologist Joe Roman recounts the uses and abuses of a well-intentioned but all-too-human law...Roman's meandering and occasionally lyrical book is generally optimistic about the law he is chronicling, and he tends toward win-win tales. -- Katherine Mangu-Ward Wall Street Journal 20110505 The Endangered Species Act has been under attack since it was passed in 1973, when the tiny snail darter temporarily stopped the building of the Tellico Dam. The history of the act, and all of the ramifications of listing (or not listing) a species as endangered under the act, is thoroughly investigated in this wide-ranging examination of one of the most important pieces of federal legislation of the twentieth century. Roman chose a few cases to illustrate why people feel threatened by the act--it puts people out of work and it puts animals before people--and why biodiversity protection really works. Roman joined scientists as they studied such high-profile species as the Florida panther, red-cockaded woodpecker, and whooping crane, as well as researchers who look at Lyme disease, ethnobotanists studying medicinal plants, malacologists trying to save freshwater mussels, and a volunteer working on the gopher frog. As he describes the field research, Roman demonstrates why saving endangered species and protecting biodiversity makes sense economically, medicinally, and philosophically. A perfect primer on the Endangered Species Act. -- Nancy Bent Booklist 20110501 Roman offers revealing case studies on the effects of the Endangered Species Act, which has been under attack almost since becoming law in 1973. Complaints have focused on the burdens placed on governments and citizens. Roman counters by making the case that protecting species can benefit both the environment and business. -- Christopher Schoppa Washington Post 20110429 Read[s] like dispatches from a war reporter in the midst of battle...Listed takes an idiosyncratic approach to the [Endangered Species Act], using it as an entry to many issues and controversies in conservation. Roman is an engaging author, and readers will enjoy the book. They will also come away having gained a deeper understanding of the Act, along with a plethora of interesting facts about listed species. -- Daniel Simberloff American Scientist 20110701 The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was a revolutionary step toward the protection of threatened biodiversity, but it has not been an unqualified success. In Listed, Roman examines the history, accomplishments, and failures of the law with a series of essays, each of which focuses on one of the animals the act affects...The book is informative and enjoyable. -- J. L. Hunt Choice 20110901 Read more...
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- Endangered species -- United States.
- Nature conservation -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
- Wildlife conservation -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
- Environmental protection -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Environmental policy -- United States -- History.
- Endangered species -- Law and legislation -- Political aspects -- United States.
- Environmental law -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- United States. -- Endangered Species Act of 1973.
