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Protecting the Wild : Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation by Eileen Crist (2015, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherIsland Press
ISBN-101610915488
ISBN-139781610915489
eBay Product ID (ePID)201676443
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Book TitleProtecting the Wild : Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Parks & Campgrounds, Essays
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Travel
AuthorEileen Crist
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA stellar collection of essays that...seeks to reaffirm and update conservation's traditional commitment to preserving nature., This in-depth analysis of environmental conservation shows how seeking new responses to decreasing biodiversity can offer hope. ...a powerful collection, Everything we have, need, use, or want comes from nature. Protecting the Wild is a powerful and urgent reminder that we must enlarge protected areas and connect them, as well as manage the surrounding landscape for conservation, to assure the survival of all forms of life, our own included, on this beautiful planet., [ Protecting the Wild is] a powerful and impassioned push-back to what is becoming a kind of conventional wisdom among a certain clique of environmentalists.
Dewey Decimal333.72
Table Of ContentTitle Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword - John Terborgh Introduction: Protected Areas and the Long Arc Toward Justice - Tom Butler Part One: Bold Thinking About Protecting the Wild Nature Needs (at least) Half: A Necessary New Agenda for Protected Areas - Harvey Locke Bolder Thinking for Conservation - Reed F. Noss, Andrew P. Dobson, Robert Baldwin, Paul Beier, Cory R. Davis, Dominick A. DellaSala, John Francis, Harvey Locke, Katarzyna Nowak, Roel Lopez, Conrad Reining, Stephen C. Trombulak, and Gary Tabor Caring for People and Valuing Forests in Africa - Jane Goodall What Is the Future of Conservation? - Daniel F. Doak, Victoria J. Bakker, Bruce Evan Goldstein, and Benjamin Hale Fool''s Gold in the Catskill Mountains: Thinking Critically about the Ecosystem Services Paradigm - Douglas J. McCauley Parks, People, and Perspectives: Historicizing Conservation in Latin America - Emily Wakild The Fight for Wilderness Preservation in the Pacific Northwest - Brock Evans Of Tigers and Humans: The Question of Democratic Deliberation and Biodiversity Conservation - Helen Kopnina Protected Areas Are Necessary for Conservation - Anthony R. E. Sinclair Part Two: Rewilding Earth, Rewilding Ourselves I Walk in the World to Love It - Eileen Crist Rewilding Europe - Christof Schenck The British Thermopylae and the Return of the Lynx - George Monbiot Letting It Be on a Continental Scale: Some Thoughts on Rewilding - John Davis Yellowstone to Yukon: Global Conservation Innovations Through the Years - Harvey Locke and Karsten Heuer Yellowstone as Model for the World - George Wuerthner Rewilding Our Hearts: Making a Personal Commitment to Animals and Their Homes - Marc Bekoff The Humbling Power of Wilderness - Spencer R. Phillips Part Three: Protected Areas: The Foundation for Conservation Conservation in the African Anthropocene - Tim Caro The Silent Killer: Habitat Loss and the Role of African Protected Areas to Conserve Biodiversity - Kathleen H. Fitzgerald Another Inconvenient Truth: The Failure of Enforcement Systems to Save Charismatic Species - Elizabeth L. Bennett America Needs More National Parks - Michael J. Kellett A New Era of Protected Areas for the Great Plains - Curtis H. Freese Human Impact on Protected Areas of the Peruvian Amazon - Marc J. Dourojeanni Protected Areas in Chilean Patagonia - Carlos Cuevas Rewilding the Carpathians: A Present-Day Opportunity - Barbara and Christoph Promberger Protecting the Wild Nature and Biodiversity of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion - Mikhail Paltsyn The Crucial Importance of Protected Areas to Conserving Mongolia''s Natural Heritage - Richard P. Reading, Ganchimeg Wingard, Tuvdendorj Selenge, and Sukh Amgalanbaatar Parks: The Best Option for Wildlife Protection in Australia - Martin Taylor Afterword - Douglas R. Tompkins Acknowledgments Contributors Notes Index About Island Press Board of Directors
SynopsisProtected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human use'working landscapes'and abandon the goal of preventing human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped nature. Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world. In it, experts from five continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other reserves are an indispensable'albeit insufficient'means to sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential. Using case studies from around the globe, they present evidence that terrestrial and marine protected areas are crucial for biodiversity and human well-being alike, vital to countering anthropogenic extinctions and climate change.A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth , Protecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers, and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land trusts to international NGOs., Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are ......, Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human use--working landscapes--and abandon the goal of preventing human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped nature. Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world. In it, experts from five continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other reserves are an indispensable--albeit insufficient--means to sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential. Using case studies from around the globe, they present evidence that terrestrial and marine protected areas are crucial for biodiversity and human well-being alike, vital to countering anthropogenic extinctions and climate change. A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth , Protecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers, and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land trusts to international NGOs., Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are pass . Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human use--working landscapes--and abandon the goal of preventing human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped nature. Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world. In it, experts from five continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other reserves are an indispensable--albeit insufficient--means to sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential. Using case studies from around the globe, they present evidence that terrestrial and marine protected areas are crucial for biodiversity and human well-being alike, vital to countering anthropogenic extinctions and climate change. A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth , Protecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers, and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land trusts to international NGOs.
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