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In this new edition James A. Pritchard has added a summary of recent developments in wildlife science and management and discusses historical continuities in the role of Yellowstone Park as a wildlife refuge and conservator.
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How we view nature transforms the world around us. People rehearse stories about nature which make sense to them. If we ask the question 'why conserve nature?', and the answers are based on myths, then are these good myths to have? Scientific knowledge about the environment is fundamental to ideas about how nature works. It is essential to the conservation endeavour. However, any conservation motivation is nested within a society's meanings of nature and the way society values it. Given the therapeutic and psychological significance of nature for us and our culture, this book considers the meanings derived from the poetic and emotional attachment to a sense of place, which is arguably just as important as scientific evidence. The functional significance of species is important, but so too is the therapeutic value of nature, together with the historic and spiritual meanings entwined in a human feeling for landscape and wildlife.
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Social sustainability is often poorly understood and vaguely defined, despite growing appreciation of its relevance as a concept. This paper advances the empirical understanding of social sustainability by constructing a global database of 71 indicators across 193 countries and 37 territories between 2016 and 2020. The indicators are flexibly clustered around four dimensions-social inclusion, resilience, social cohesion, and process legitimacy-for which measurement indices are constructed. A simple empirical analysis using the database confirms that social sustainability is positively and strongly associated with per capita income, negatively and strongly associated with poverty, and negatively but weakly associated with income inequality. Much remains to be analyzed to understand the interactions between dimensions, but the results underscore that social sustainability matters not only in itself, but also to reduce poverty. Furthermore, extending access to markets, basic public services, and social assistance needs to be complemented with strengthening process legitimacy and social cohesion if inequality is to be reduced.
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Au cours des dernières années, la Nouvelle-Zélande et l'Inde ont accordé la personnalité juridique à trois fleuves, tandis que la nouvelle Constitution de l'Équateur a fait de la nature un sujet de droit. Révolutionnaires, ces mesures doivent beaucoup à un homme, Christopher Stone. En 1972, pour contrer un projet de la Walt Disney Company qui menaçait une forêt de séquoias, ce juriste proposa d'accorder des droits aux arbres. Avec ce texte, il contribua de façon décisive à la prise de conscience de la valeur intrinsèque de la nature. L'originalité de sa position tient à son caractère juridique : en conférant à la nature le droit de se défendre en justice par l'intermédiaire de représentants, il ouvre la voie au primat de sa préservation sur le pur calcul économique. Catherine Larrère, philosophe, et Marine Calmet, juriste et militante, montrent combien ce texte pionnier renouvelle notre relation à la nature et au vivant. Vers une nature qui se défend !
Nature conservation --- Environmental law --- Nature conservation --- Environmental protection
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Ecology --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation
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Climatic changes. --- Nature --- Nature conservation --- Effect of human beings on.
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Applied ecology. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Ecology --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation
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Conservation biology. --- Freshwater ecology. --- Fresh water --- Fresh-water ecology --- Aquatic ecology --- Ecology --- Nature conservation
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Forest conservation. --- Forest conservation --- Conservation of forests --- Forest preservation --- Forests and forestry --- Preservation of forests --- Nature conservation --- Deforestation --- Conservation --- Control
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Dit boek levert brede kennis en inzichten voor beheer en behoud van onze belangrijkste ecosystemen zoals wetlands, graslanden, heiden, bossen en duinen. Belangrijke onderwerpen zijn de herwaardering van natuurlijke processen, de rol van grote grazers en natuurlijk ook klimaatadaptief natuurbeheer. Rewilding wint aan populariteit en wordt hier als een boeiende, aanvullende natuurbehoudstrategie voorgesteld.
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