Rewilding North America : a vision for conservation in the 21st century / Dave Foreman.
by
Foreman, Dave, 1946-
ISBN
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9781423767206
9781610911559
Title
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Rewilding North America : a vision for conservation in the 21st century / Dave Foreman.
Author
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Foreman, Dave, 1946-
Personal Author
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Foreman, Dave, 1946-
Publication Information
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Washington : Island Press, ©2004.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : maps
Contents
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Bad news -- The extinction crisis -- The pleistocene-holocene event: forty thousand years of extinction -- The first wave -- The second and third waves -- Ecological wounds of North America : direct killing and habitat loss -- Ecological wounds of North America : fragmentation, loss of ecological processes, exotic species, pollution, and climate change -- Good news -- Conservation biology -- Rewilding North America -- Selecting and designing protected areas: the early days -- Selecting and designing protected areas: the past two decades -- The importance of wilderness areas -- Taking action -- Putting the pieces together: building a North American Wildlands network -- An ecological approach to wilderness area selection and design -- Land management reforms for implementing the North American Wildlands network -- Hope for the future.
Local Note
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Subject Term
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Wilderness areas -- North America.
Biodiversity conservation -- North America.
Extinction (Biology) -- North America.
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2004
Publication Information
:
Washington : Island Press, ©2004.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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333.9516097 22 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |