Nearly forty years old, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) remains a landmark act in conservation and one of the world’s most comprehensive laws designed to prevent species extinctions and support recovery efforts for imperiled species. A controversial law and often subject to political attack, the ESA is successful overall but not without difficulties. Those who enforce the ESA, for example, struggle to achieve viable recovery goals for many species. This volume brings together conservation biologists, economists, private and government stakeholders, and others to create a legal, scientific, sociological, financial, and technological foundation for designing solutions that incentivize conservation action for hundreds of at-risk species, prior to their potential listing under the ESA. 280 p.

• C. Josh Donlan, ed. Ecologist, Visiting Fellow, Global Sustainability Fellow. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA), Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Amherst College, Amherst, MA (USA). 
  
   
• Publisher: University of California Pres
• Publication date (print & electronic format): 2015-04.