Protecting the wild : parks and wilderness, the foundation for conservation /: parks and wilderness, the foundation for conservation. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler.
• Editors: Wuerthner, George; Crist, Eileen, 1961-; Butler, Tom, 1963-
• Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Deducation -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- [ONE]: BOLD THINKING ABOUT PROTECTING THE WILD -- Nature Needs (at least) Half: A Necessary New Agenda for Protected Areas -- The first global conservation targets for protected areas: 10 or 12 percent -- A global target emerges from the Convention on Biological Diversity -- What scientific analysis suggests protected area targets ought to be -- The meaning of protected area -- Protecting half of the Earth's lands and waters -- Connectivity among protected areas -- Nature on the other half. Self-censorship in the conservation community when it comes to targets -- Protecting at least half of the Earth is a viable goal -- A philosophical moment for the protected areas movement -- Bolder Thinking for Conservation -- Set targets designed to achieve goals -- Protect at least 50 percent globally -- Maintain or restore connectivity across large landscapes -- Focus attention on the greatest threat -- Demonstrate the value of nature to humans -- Popularize the idea that conservation can be achieved -- Reasonable targets -- Caring for People and Valuing Forests in Africa. What Is the Future of Conservation? -- Shaking up the motives and practices of conservation -- Central premises of the NCS argument -- What's wrong with these claims and remedies? -- Conclusions -- Fool's Gold in the Catskill Mountains: Thinking Critically about the Ecosystem Services Paradigm -- Parks, People, and Perspectives: Historicizing Conservation in Latin America -- An academic context for challenging conservation -- Examples from below -- Conclusions -- The Fight for Wilderness Preservation in the Pacific Northwest. Of Tigers and Humans:The Question of Democratic Deliberation and Biodiversity Conservation -- Tiger conservation -- Efficacy of conservation -- Environmental justice -- Democracy and ethics -- Conclusion -- Protected Areas Are Necessary for Conservation -- [TWO]: REWILDING EARTH, REWILDING OURSELVES -- I Walk in the World to Love It -- Rewilding Europe -- From wilderness to plantation -- Green power and conserved cultivation -- Biodiversity as justification for conserved cultivation -- The return toward wilderness -- Bottom-up -- Top-down -- Why wild? The British Thermopylae and the Return of the Lynx -- Letting It Be on a Continental Scale: Some Thoughts on Rewilding -- Unbuild it, and they will come -- Yellowstone to Yukon: Global Conservation Innovations Through the Years -- Pioneering conservation -- Conservation near people -- Conservation biology shifts the scale -- The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative -- Inspiring hope for conservation around the world -- Yellowstone as Model for the World -- Critique of the Yellowstone model -- Locals almost always oppose parks -- Human-free zones? -- The human influence.
• Publisher Details: San Francisco, CA Washington, DC : Foundation for Deep Ecology Island Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 362 pages), maps
• Subjects: 333.72; Environment; Protected areas; Nature conservation; Wilderness areas; National parks and reserves; National parks and reserves; Nature conservation; Protected areas; Wilderness areas; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Conservation of the environment; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781610915519; 1610915518; 9781597261111; 1597261114
• Related ISBNs: 9781610915489; 1610915488
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-352) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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