Why Conserve Nature?

Stephen Trudgill is an Honorary Vice-President of the Field Studies Council and an Emeritus Fellow in Geography at Robinson College, Cambridge University, where he is Chair of the Gardens Committee and member of the Visual Arts Committee. . He formerly lectured on the social engagement with nature, biogeography, soils, nature conservation and environmental management in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University. He has experience of Nature Reserve Management Committees in Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve, Devon and community conservation near Cambridge. He has written, edited and co-edited seven books to date. He was also a contributor to the recently published Cambridge book, Curious About Nature (Burt and Thompson, EBC, 2019).

• Part I. The Experience of Nature: 1. The experience of nature; 2. Climate change; Part II. Nature Imagined: 3. Nature in ecological science: explanations, emotions and motivations; 4. Nature in literature and art; Part III. Nature, Self and Place: 5. Personal meanings of nature; 6. Places for nature; Part IV. Why Conserve Nature?: 7. Possibilities.

'… this book will help the … reader to think through their values and their relationship with nature… I encourage the readers … to buy this book, let Trudgill's seminars reshape their thinking, and (re)discover for themselves why we should conserve nature.' George Holmes, Oryx