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Challenges to Conservation

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The management and maintenance of nature are complicated because both nature and human nature are themselves quite complex. While traditional explanations based on human population growth combined with increasing resource demands offer some perspective on an ever-worsening situation, they seem somewhat separated from root causes as well as potential solutions.

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  1. College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, University of San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

    Kelly Swing

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  1. Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    James N. Furze

  2. College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

    Kelly Swing

  3. Indian Institute of Management, Coordinator, Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Anil K. Gupta

  4. Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Richard H. McClatchey

  5. Centre for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Darren M. Reynolds

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Swing, K. (2017). Challenges to Conservation. In: Furze, J., Swing, K., Gupta, A., McClatchey, R., Reynolds, D. (eds) Mathematical Advances Towards Sustainable Environmental Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43901-3_6

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