Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century - Softcover

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Lombard (senior policy analyst, Steward & Associates, an environmental consulting firm) argues that current conservation strategies in Washington's Puget Sound region are fundamentally flawed due to fragmented local regulatory authority; mistaken assumptions that mitigation efforts should be focused at the local point of human impact; failure to recognize economic subsidies for environmental degradation; misplaced expenditures aimed at preserving individual species numbers rather than grander scale projects such as protecting and restoring habitat or removing dams; and project-based growth mitigation requirements that are not triggered by many small-scale developments and ignore cumulative effects. He proposes an alternative regulatory framework for conservation that would minimize new ecological losses by directing growth to where it will do the least harm; strengthen existing protections for places with the greatest ecological importance; and mitigate for remaining losses by restoring ecologically important places degraded by past land uses, especially river floodplains and riparian areas. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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