Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness,...

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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. 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.

Über den Autor

George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, where he does research and writes about environmental issues. For many years he was a full-time freelance photographer and writer and has published thirty-eight books on natural history, conservation history, ecology, and environmental issues. Eileen Crist teaches at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and coeditor of Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis. Tom Butler, a Vermont-based conservation activist and writer, is the board president of the Northeast Wilderness Trust and the former longtime editor of Wild Earth journal. His books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, and ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Volkswirtschaft
Genre:	Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781610915489
ISBN-10:	1610915488
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Wuerthner, George Crist, Eileen Butler, Tom
Hersteller:	Island Press
Maße:	228 x 151 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	George Wuerthner (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.02.2015
Gewicht:	0,584 kg

Artikel-ID: 105310026

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Volkswirtschaft
Genre:	Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781610915489
ISBN-10:	1610915488
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Wuerthner, George Crist, Eileen Butler, Tom
Hersteller:	Island Press
Maße:	228 x 151 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	George Wuerthner (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.02.2015
Gewicht:	0,584 kg