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Protecting the Wild

Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

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Editors:
  1. George Wuerthner

    1. Foundation for Deep Ecology, Livingston, USA

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  2. Eileen Crist

    1. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

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  3. Tom Butler
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  • This volume is a timely addition to the current debate about how best to manage land for conservation -The book includes case studies from around the world -The publisher is the Foundation for Deep Ecology, a leading advocate of wild nature

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Bold Thinking about Protecting the Wild

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Nature Needs (at least) Half: A Necessary New Agenda for Protected Areas

      • Harvey Locke
      Pages 3-15

    3. Bolder Thinking for Conservation

      • Reed F. Noss, Andrew P. Dobson, Robert Baldwin, Paul Beier, Cory R. Davis, Dominick A. Dellasala et al.
      Pages 16-20

    4. Caring for People and Valuing Forests in Africa

      • Jane Goodall
      Pages 21-26

    5. What Is the Future of Conservation?

      • Daniel F. Doak, Victoria J. Bakker, Bruce Evan Goldstein, Benjamin Hale
      Pages 27-35

    6. Fool’s Gold in the Catskill Mountains: Thinking Critically about the Ecosystem Services Paradigm

      • Douglas J. McCauley
      Pages 36-40

    7. Parks, People, and Perspectives: Historicizing Conservation in Latin America

      • Emily Wakild
      Pages 41-52

    8. The Fight for Wilderness Preservation in the Pacific Northwest

      • Brock Evans
      Pages 53-62

    9. Of Tigers and Humans: The Question of Democratic Deliberation and Biodiversity Conservation

      • Helen Kopnina
      Pages 63-71

    10. Protected Areas Are Necessary for Conservation

      • Anthony R. E. Sinclair
      Pages 72-79

  3. Rewilding Earth, Rewilding Ourselves

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. I Walk in the World to Love It

      • Eileen Crist
      Pages 82-95

    3. Rewilding Europe

      • Christof Schenck
      Pages 96-104

    4. The British Thermopylae and the Return of the Lynx

      • George Monbiot
      Pages 105-108

    5. Letting It Be on a Continental Scale: Some Thoughts on Rewilding

      • John Davis
      Pages 109-119

    6. Yellowstone to Yukon: Global Conservation Innovations Through the Years

      • Harvey Locke, Karsten Heuer
      Pages 120-130

    7. Yellowstone as Model for the World

      • George Wuerthner
      Pages 131-143

    8. Rewilding Our Hearts: Making a Personal Commitment to Animals and Their Homes

      • Marc Bekoff
      Pages 144-153

    9. The Humbling Power of Wilderness

      • Spencer R. Phillips
      Pages 154-161
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Foundation for Deep Ecology, Livingston, USA

    George Wuerthner

  • Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

    Eileen Crist

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Protecting the Wild

  • Book Subtitle: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

  • Editors: George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-551-9

  • Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Foundation for Deep Ecology 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-551-9Published: 10 July 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Nature Conservation

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