Jump to content

Society for Conservation Biology

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rathfelder (talk | contribs) at 22:04, 18 February 2016 (Added {{merge from}} tag to article (TW)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Society for Conservation Biology
FoundedMay 8, 1985[1]
TypeScientific society
33-0147824 (U.S.A.)[2]
Focusconservation biology, education, policy
Location
Members
10,000[3]
Revenue
US$2,786,389 (2008)[4]
EndowmentUS$923,751 (2008)[5]
Employees
14
Volunteers
~200
Websitewww.conbio.org

The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is an 501(c)3 non-profit international professional organization devoted to scientific study of the "maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity." [8] There are 10,000 members worldwide, including students and those in related non-academic sectors. There are 31 chapters in the United States, and 13 throughout the world elsewhere.[9]

The origin of the Society resulted from the emergence of the field as a distinct subject in the 1970s. The phrase conservation biology originated from a conference of ecologists and population biologists at the University of Michigan,that published the book "Conservation Biology" An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective [10] was highly influential internationally, eventually selling tens of thousands of copies including a Russian translation. By the mid-1980s there was sufficient interest and participation to establish a formal society and publish a peer reviewed journal Conservation Biology, started in 1987 and published by Blackwell Scientific Publishers. This has been supplemented since 2007 by the rapid publication journal Conservation Letters ISSN 1755-263X. It also has published jointly with the University of Washington since 1997 the non-technical Conservation (also known as Conservation Magazine), ISSN 1936-2145.[11]

Sections

In 2000 the SCB Board of Governors approved the creation of seven Regional Sections that were formed over the following two years. The seven sections are Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, North America, Marine and Oceania. The Europe Section was established at the annual SCB meeting in Canterbury 2002. The SCB-Oceania section was established in 2005.

Chapters

SCB chapters are local groupings that are associated with regional sections, and are a means to work locally to achieve conservation success.[12] The following chapters are listed within each of the seven sections:

Working groups

Several working groups help to advance the society's work in specific areas of conservation.

  • Social Sciences
  • Ecological economics and sustainability science
  • Fresh Water
  • Religion and Conservation Biology

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.conbio.org/AboutUs/History/
  2. ^ http://www.conbio.org/help/501c3.cfm
  3. ^ http://www.conbio.org/AboutUs/
  4. ^ http://www.conbio.org/AboutUs/AnnualReport/2008ARsm.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.conbio.org/AboutUs/AnnualReport/2008ARsm.pdf
  6. ^ http://www.conbio.org/AboutUs/
  7. ^ http://www.conbio.org/
  8. ^ http://www.geog.uvic.ca/dept/news/localchp.htm
  9. ^ [1]
  10. ^ Soule, M. E. and B. A. Wilcox. 1980. "Conservation Biology" An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective. Sinauer Associates. Sunderland. Massachusetts
  11. ^ WorldCat
  12. ^ http://www.conbio.org/groups/chapters/chapter-directory
  13. ^ http://www.conbio.org/groups/chapters/chapter-directory/north-america

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Society_for_Conservation_Biology&oldid=705673457"