Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation: Volume 3 (State of the Apes, Series Number 3)

Cambridge University Press, 11/8/2018
EAN 9781108423212, ISBN10: 1108423213

Hardcover, 384 pages, 25.4 x 19.3 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

Infrastructure development in Africa and Asia is expanding at breakneck speed, largely in biodiversity-rich developing nations. The trend reflects governments' efforts to promote economic growth in response to increasing populations, rising consumption rates and persistent inequalities. Large-scale infrastructure development is regularly touted as a way to meet the growing demand for energy, transport and food - and as a key to poverty alleviation. In practice, however, road networks, hydropower dams and 'development corridors' tend to have adverse effects on local populations, natural habitats and biodiversity. Such projects typically weaken the capacity of ecosystems to maintain ecological functions on which wildlife and human communities depend, particularly in the face of climate change. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Notes to readers
Acknowledgments
Apes overview
Part I. Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation
Introduction
1. Towards more sustainable infrastructure
challenges and opportunities in ape range states of Africa and Asia
2. Impacts of infrastructure on apes, indigenous peoples and other local communities
3. Deforestation along roads
monitoring threats to ape habitat
4. Apes, protected areas and infrastructure in Africa
5. Roads, apes and biodiversity conservation
case studies from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Nigeria
6. Renewable energy and the conservation of apes and ape habitat
Part II. The Status and Welfare of Great Apes and Gibbons
Introduction
7. Mapping change in ape habitats
forest status, loss, protection and future risk
8. The status of captive apes
Annexes
Acronyms and abbreviations
Glossary
References
Index.