Endangered Species Recovery: Finding the Lessons, Improving the Process

Endangered Species Recovery presents case studies of prominent species recovery programs in an attempt to explore and analyze their successes, failures, and problems, and to begin to find ways of improving the process. It is the first effort to engage social scientists as well as biologists in a wide-ranging analysis and discussion of endangered species conservation, and provides valuable insight into the policy and implementation framework of species recovery programs. The book features a unique integration of case studies with theory, and provides sound, practical ideas for improving endangered species policy implementation.

Tim Clark is a biologist by training who does most of his work now on questions of environmental policy. He divides his time between Yale, where he is an adjunct professor, and Jackson, WY, where he is the president and founder of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, a successful nonprofit group with a good reputation, whose mission is creative, cooperative, practical problem solving in the conservation of nature.

Alice L. Clarke is a post-doctoral fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, University of Trondheim.

Craig Groves is currently Conservation Approach Director at The Nature Conservancy where he specializes in land/ocean interface and interaction. Previously, he worked as Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Greater Yellowstone Program where he oversaw several wildlife research and conservation projects and was involved in conservation planning at the landscape level.

Stephen R. Kellert was the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and author of numerous books including, The Biophilia Hypothesis (coedited with E. O. Wilson, 1993), The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society (1996), Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development (1997), The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World (coedited with T. Farnham, 2002), and Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations (coedited with P. H. Kahn, 2002).

James Crowfoot was dean of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and a core faculty member of the university's interdisciplinary program in Conflict Management Alternatives.