A current treatment of the science of conservation, emphasizing analysis, not description; assessment, not opinion; and syntheses, not summaries.
A comprehensive integration of the contributions of ethics, economics, law, and policy to the understanding of conservation biology in practice, creating an intellectually unified understanding of the discipline, rather than disparate and unrelated chapters treating these areas as separate "topics."
New contemporary case studies that capture the state of conservation biology today, and more attractive and colorful illustrations to enrich and enliven an already compelling text.