Title Protecting the wild : parks and wilderness, the foundation for conservation / edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler

Published San Francisco, CA : Foundation for Deep Ecology ; Washington, DC : Island Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 362 pages) : maps 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 Summary 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 pass. Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human useworking landscapesand 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 indispensablealbeit insufficientmeans 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-352) and index Notes Print version record Subject Protected areas. Nature conservation. Wilderness areas. National parks and reserves. protected areas. wilderness areas. national parks. Conservation of the environment. Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. National parks and reserves Nature conservation Protected areas Wilderness areas Form Electronic book Author Wuerthner, George, editor Crist, Eileen, 1961- editor. Butler, Tom, 1963- editor. ISBN 9781610915519 1610915518 9781597261111 1597261114

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