Download or read book The Endangered Species Act at Thirty written by J. Michael Scott and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, this book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversity in the United States by revisiting some basic questions in conservation: What are we trying to protect and why? What are the limits of species-based conservation? Can we develop new conservation strategies that are more ecologically and economically viable than past approaches?