Protecting the wild[electronic resou...
Butler, Tom.

 

  • Protecting the wild[electronic resource] :parks and wilderness, the foundation for conservation /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 333.72
    書名/作者: Protecting the wild : parks and wilderness, the foundation for conservation // edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler.
    其他作者: Wuerthner, George.
    出版者: Washington, DC : : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :, 2015.
    面頁冊數: xxvii, 362 p. : : maps, digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Protected areas.
    標題: Nature conservation.
    標題: Wilderness areas.
    標題: National parks and reserves.
    標題: Environment.
    標題: Nature Conservation.
    ISBN: 9781610915519 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781597261111 (paper)
    摘要、提要註: 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 passe. 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.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-551-9
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