Please submit responses to the readings by 5pm on Tuesday, September 15. These should be thoughtful questions/comments designed to provoke discussion. You should also read through responses prepared by fellow students in preparation for Friday’s discussion.
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Reading for week 2:
Ferraro, P. J. and S. H. Pattanayak. 2006. Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments. PLoS Biology 4:e105.
Chapin, M. 2004. A challenge to conservationists. World Watch Magazine November/December:17-31. (for an update, read: Dowie, M. 2008. Wrong path to conservation in Papua New Guinea. The Nation. September 10, 2008.)
Donlan, C. J., H. W. Greene, J. Berger, C. E. Bock, J. H. Bock, D. A. Burney, J. A. Estes, D. Forman, P. S. Martin, G. W. Roemer, F. A. Smith, and M. E. Soulé. 2005. Re-wilding North America. Nature 436:913-914.
McCauley, D. J. 2006. Selling out on nature. Nature 443:27-28.