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Grumpy scientists : the ecological conscience of a nation / edited by Daniel Lunney, Pat Hutchings and Harry F. Recher

Record no:

67962

Call no:

591.01 GRU

Author:

Lunney, Daniel ; Hutchings, Patricia, 1946- ; Recher, Harry F. ; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Publisher:

Mosman, N.S.W.: Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W.

Year:

2013

Description:

vi, 138 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Ecology - Australia;
Wildlife conservation - Australia;
Biodiversity conservation - Australia;
Environmental policy - Australia;
Zoology - Moral and ethical aspects - Australia;

Zoology - Political aspects - Australia;
Zoology - Economic aspects - Australia;
Science - Study and teaching;

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Isbn:

9780987430908

Notes:

Papers derived from a Forum of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW held on 3 November, 2012 at Taronga Zoo, N.S.W.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

Wildlife research - climate change - animal ethics - science policy - journal impact factors - Australian fauna - ecological conscience - biodiversity crisis - extinction - taxonomists - museums.Zoologists can be more prone than other scientists to being

a grouch because the object of their study - the animals - are under threat from land clearing, invasive species, pollution, habitat loss, climate change, and the relentless pressure imposed by h

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