Rewilding European Landscapes

Author : Henrique M. Pereira,Laetitia M. Navarro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319120393

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Rewilding European Landscapes by Henrique M. Pereira,Laetitia M. Navarro Pdf

Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly traditional agriculture in remote areas. This book proposes that this land abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to restore natural ecosystems via rewilding. We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long-term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes. The book aims at introducing the concept of rewilding to scientists, students and practitioners. The first part presents the theory of rewilding in the European context. The second part of the book directly addresses the link between rewilding, biodiversity, and habitats. The third and last part is dedicated to practical aspects of the implementation of rewilding as a land management option. We believe that this book will both set the basis for future research on rewilding and help practitioners think about how rewilding can take place in areas under their management.

Author : Nathalie Pettorelli,Sarah M. Durant,Johan T. du Toit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108472678

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Rewilding by Nathalie Pettorelli,Sarah M. Durant,Johan T. du Toit Pdf

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

Author : Urban Emanuelsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:092583264

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The Rural Landscapes of Europe by Urban Emanuelsson Pdf

Author : John P. Giesy,Keith R. Solomon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319038650

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Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States by John P. Giesy,Keith R. Solomon Pdf

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Author : Staffan Widstrand,Peter Cairns,Florian Möllers,Bridget Wijnberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215391405

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Wild Wonders of Europe by Staffan Widstrand,Peter Cairns,Florian Möllers,Bridget Wijnberg Pdf

Presents an astonishing view of the continent's flora and fauna and reveals the wildlife and landscapes of all 48 European countries. With a focus on conservation and reintroducing vulnerable species to their natural habitats, the accompanying texts express hope for the future of European biodiversity.

Author : Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,Bas Pedroli,G. Bas M. Pedroli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107070691

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European Landscapes in Transition by Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,Bas Pedroli,G. Bas M. Pedroli Pdf

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

Author : Caroline Fraser
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429924528

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Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser Pdf

A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world's most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural home Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds, and insects. If the destruction continues, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050—and with them earth's life-support ecosystems that provide our food, water, medicine, and natural defenses against climate change. Now Caroline Fraser offers the first definitive account of a visionary campaign to confront this crisis: rewilding. Breathtaking in scope and ambition, rewilding aims to save species by restoring habitats, reviving migration corridors, and brokering peace between people and predators. Traveling with wildlife biologists and conservationists, Fraser reports on the vast projects that are turning Europe's former Iron Curtain into a greenbelt, creating trans-frontier Peace Parks to renew elephant routes throughout Africa, and linking protected areas from the Yukon to Mexico and beyond. An inspiring story of scientific discovery and grassroots action, Rewilding the World offers hope for a richer, wilder future.

Author : R.H.G Jongman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402029101

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The New Dimensions of the European Landscapes by R.H.G Jongman Pdf

The European Landscape is under stress of changing land use and a changing attitude of its users. Globalization, the disappearance of the iron curtain and the recent EU enlargement to 25 countries have changed the economic and environmental dimensions of Europe. Europe is changing its face from a western and eastern part to one European Union and to fast connections between its centres of activity. The rural and cultural heritage of Europe has to be adapted to cope with this change. However, its landscape is worth to be conserved as well, because it represents the European history in the same way as castles and churches. It even more represents the history of the common people, because it has been the tradition of the rural population that made these landscapes. It cannot be prevented that Europe is changing and it is good that Europe adapts to the new dimensions of the world. We, in Europe, have to define what we think is important and what must be conserved, what can be adapted to be used for new functions and what can be abolished because it has no value. These decisions will determine the new dimensions of the European landscapes. The Frontis Workshop on the New Dimensions of the European Landscape was held on 10-12 June 2002. Wageningen University and Research Centre organized this workshop aiming to develop visions on the landscape in Europe, its development and design in the future and to strengthen the international network in landscape planning.

Author : Sarah E. Gergel,Monica G. Turner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387216133

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Learning Landscape Ecology by Sarah E. Gergel,Monica G. Turner Pdf

Filled with numerous exercises this practical guide provides a real hands-on approach to learning the essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The knowledge gained enables students to usefully address landscape- level ecological and management issues. A variety of approaches are presented, including: group discussion, thought problems, written exercises, and modelling. Each exercise is categorised as to whether it is for individual, small group, or whole class study.

Author : George Monbiot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226205557

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Feral by George Monbiot Pdf

As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."

Author : Benedict Macdonald
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781784271886

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Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald Pdf

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize ‘splendid’ —Guardian ‘visionary’ —New Statesman Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar – and forward in time to the intensification of our modern landscapes and the collapse of invertebrate populations. It looks at key reasons why species are vanishing, as our landscapes become ever more tamed and less diverse, with wildlife trapped in tiny pockets of habitat. It explores how Britain has, uniquely, relied on modifying farmland, rather than restoring ecosystems, in a failing attempt to halt wildlife decline. The irony is that 94% of Britain is not built upon at all. And with more nature-loving voices than any European country, we should in fact have the best, not the most impoverished, wildlife on our continent. Especially when the rural economics of our game estates, and upland farms, are among the worst in Europe. Britain is blessed with all the space it needs for an epic wildlife recovery. The deer estates of the Scottish Highlands are twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. Snowdonia is larger than the Maasai Mara. The problem in Britain is not a lack of space. It is that our precious space is uniquely wasted – not only for wildlife, but for people’s jobs and rural futures too. Rebirding maps out how we might finally turn things around: rewilding our national parks, restoring natural ecosystems and allowing our wildlife a far richer future. In doing so, an entirely new sector of rural jobs would be created; finally bringing Britain’s dying rural landscapes and failing economies back to life.

Author : Emma Marris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781635574968

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Wild Souls by Emma Marris Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Fascinating . . . hands-on philosophy, put to test in the real world . . . Marris believes that our idea of wildness--our obsession with purity--is misguided. No animal remains untouched by human hands . . . the science isn't the hard part. The real challenge is the ethics, the act of imagining our appropriate place in that world." --Outside Magazine From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions. Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe--from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.

Author : Sarah R. Hamilton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295743325

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Cultivating Nature by Sarah R. Hamilton Pdf

Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists, politicians, and tourists have made this working landscape a site of ongoing conflict over environmental conservation in Europe, the future of Spain, and Valencian identity. In Cultivating Nature, Sarah Hamilton explores the Albufera’s contested lands and waters, which have supported and been transformed by human activity for a millennium, in order to understand regional, national, and global social histories. She argues that efforts to preserve biological and cultural diversity must incorporate the interests of those who live within heavily modified and long-exploited ecosystems such as the Albufera de Valencia. Shifting between local struggles and global debates, this fascinating environmental history reveals how Franco’s dictatorship, Spain’s integration with Europe, and the crisis in European agriculture have shaped the Albufera, its users, and its inhabitants.

Author : Bas Pedroli,Anne van Doorn,Geert de Blust
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004278073

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Europe's Living Landscapes by Bas Pedroli,Anne van Doorn,Geert de Blust Pdf

Landscape is one of the most fascinating assets of Europe. The great diversity in landscapes reflects a multitude of historical layers. This book presents the story of some of the most expressive European landscapes. It explores how engagement may safeguard and improve landscape identity for the future.

Author : Bahar Dutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780199098330

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Rewilding by Bahar Dutt Pdf

We live in a time of serious environmental catastrophes. Every year we lose thousands of species, even as others slip deeper into danger. The extinction crisis is well known; what is not are stories of people trying to turn the tide. In Rewilding, environmental journalist Bahar Dutt documents stories of hope for India's natural world. She meets people who are trying to conserve species not just by replenishing their dwindling numbers, but also by restoring their habitats in the wild. This means going to great lengths, from airlifting corals from coast to coast, to going undercover as a spy to check the availability of toxic drugs that wiped out a bird. In the process, Bahar learns that though it may not offer easy answers, rewilding can offer great rewards. And that news about the environment doesn't always have to be bad.