Stephen M. Redpath is a conservation scientist at the University of Aberdeen. He started his career as an ecologist at Leeds University, where he got his PhD in 1989, working on birds of prey and red grouse. In 2007, he moved to Aberdeen University and was Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability. Much of his work now focuses on understanding and searching for sustainable solutions to conservation conflicts. Ralph J. Gutierrez is a wildlife ecologist at the University of Minnesota, St Paul, where he holds the Gordon Gullion Endowed Chair in Forest Wildlife Research and Education. His research centres on grouse, quail, and endangered species. He has studied spotted owls for thirty-five years and observed the continuing conflict between forestry interests and conservation interests over the fate of the owl and its habitat. Over the past fourteen years his interests have expanded from science and management to the roots of the conflict. Kevin A. Wood is an early career researcher at Bournemouth University interested in conservation and ecology. His interest in the natural world began with a childhood chasing insects, climbing trees and trying to catch fish in the Oxfordshire countryside where he grew up. His research aims to predict how organisms will respond to environmental change, and how species can be managed to prevent population declines. Juliette C. Young is a political ecologist at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, where she has been working since 2002. Her portfolio of national and international research is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to understand and address conservation conflicts, attitudes towards biodiversity and its conservation, and science-policy interfaces.

Lists of contributors; Foreword Georgina Mace; Part I. Introduction to Conservation and Conflict: 1. An introduction to conservation conflicts Stephen M. Redpath, Ralph J. Gutiérrez, Kevin A. Wood, Roger Sidaway and Juliette C. Young; 2. Philosophy, conflict and conservation Alan Holland; Part II. Contrasting Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Conflict in Conservation: 3. The value of ecological information in conservation conflict Stephen M. Redpath and William J. Sutherland; 4. Environmental history and conservation conflicts Robert A. Lambert; 5. The political ecology of conservation conflicts William M. Adams; 6. Understanding conservation conflicts: an economic perspective Nick Hanley; 7. Anthropological approaches to conservation conflicts Andrew Whitehouse; 8. Law and conservation conflicts Arie Trouwborst; 9. The relevance of psychology to conservation conflicts Herbert H. Blumberg; 10. Conservation conflicts: ethical issues Nigel Dower; 11. A view from sociology: environmental movement mobilisation over old growth temperate rainforests in British Columbia D. B. Tindall, Joanna L. Robinson and Mark C. J. Stoddart; 12. Peace research and conservation conflicts Paul Rogers; 13. Linking conflict and global biodiversity conservation policies Esther Carmen, Juliette C. Young and Allan D. Watt; Part III. Approaches to Managing Conflicts: 14. Modelling Conservation Conflicts Johannes P. M. Heinonen and Justin M. J. Travis; 15. Defining scales for managing biodiversity and natural resources in the face of conflicts John D. C. Linnell; 16. Mediation and conservation conflicts: from top-down to bottom-up M. S. Reed and J. Sidoli del Ceno; 17. Designing and facilitating consensus-building - keys to success Diana Pound; 18. Conservation conflict transformation: the missing link in conservation Francine Madden and Brian McQuinn; 19. Legislated collaboration in a conservation conflict: a case study of the Quincy Library group in California, USA Ralph J. Gutiérrez, Antony S. Cheng, Dennis R. Becker, Scott Cashen, David Ganz, John Gunn, Michael Liquori, Amy Merrill, D. S. Saah and William Price; 20. Finding a way out of conservation conflicts Stephen M. Redpath, Ralph J. Gutiérrez, Kevin A. Wood and Juliette C. Young; Index.

An insightful guide to understanding conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity and groundbreaking strategies to deal with them.