Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene
Author: Alison M. Behie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 110715748X

Combining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.

Primates in Flooded Habitats

Primates in Flooded Habitats
Author: Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107134315

A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

Ethnoprimatology

Ethnoprimatology
Author: Kerry M. Dore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107109965

A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

The Promise of Contemporary Primatology

The Promise of Contemporary Primatology
Author: Erin P. Riley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0429853815

This book argues for a contemporary primatology that recognizes humans as integral components in the ecologies of primates. This contemporary primatology uses a broadened theoretical lens and methodological toolkit to study primate behavior and ecology in increasingly anthropogenic contexts and seeks points of intersection and spaces for collaborative exchange across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The book begins by exploring the American tradition of anthropology, providing historical and disciplinary context for the emergence of field primatology and how it became a part of this tradition. It then examines how primatology transformed into a field dominated by evolutionary approaches and highlights how the increasingly anthropogenic environments in which primates live present opportunities to understand primate adaptability at work. In doing so, it explores how an extended evolutionary approach can help explain behavioral variation in these contemporary environments. Focus is then given to the ethnoprimatological approach, a contemporary approach that provides a pluralistic framework, drawing from the natural and social sciences and humanities, needed to study human-primate coexistence in the Anthropocene. Finally, the book considers how such a crossing of disciplines can inform primate conservation in the future. An important interdisciplinary reassessment, this book will be of significant interest to primatologists, biological anthropologists, and scholars of anthropology more generally, as well as evolutionary and conservation biologists.

The Colobines

The Colobines
Author: Ikki Matsuda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2022-02-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1108421385

Covering colobine biology, behaviour, ecology and conservation, this book summarises current knowledge of this fascinating group of primates.

Best Practice

Best Practice
Author: Kimberly Chong
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478002379

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global “best practices.” Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World
Author: Christian C. Voigt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3319252208

This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of hunting, disease relationships, occupation of human dwellings, and conflict over fruit crops are explored in depth. Finally, contributors highlight the roles that taxonomy, conservation networks and conservation psychology have to play in conserving this imperilled but vital taxon. With over 1300 species, bats are the second largest order of mammals, yet as the Anthropocene dawns, bat populations around the world are in decline. Greater understanding of the anthropogenic drivers of this decline and exploration of possible mitigation measures are urgently needed if we are to retain global bat diversity in the coming decades. This book brings together teams of international experts to provide a global review of current understanding and recommend directions for future research and mitigation.

High Altitude Primates

High Altitude Primates
Author: Nanda B. Grow
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1461481759

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially in comparison to lowland populations. Historically, the majority of primate studies have focused on lowland populations. However, as the lowlands have been disappearing, more and more primatologists have begun studying populations located in higher altitudes. High altitude populations are important not only because of their uniqueness, but also because they highlight the range of primate adaptability and the complex variables that are involved in primate evolution. These populations are good examples of how geographic scales result in diversification and/or speciation. Yet, there have been very few papers addressing how this high altitude environment affects the behavior, ecology, and conservation status of these primates. ​

An Introduction to Primate Conservation

An Introduction to Primate Conservation
Author: Serge A. Wich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0198703384

This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation.