A New Approach to Conservation: The Importance of the Individual Through Wildlife Rehabilitation

ISBN-13: 9780815387398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 218 str.

Gill Aitken

Opis

Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action

Spis treści

Contents: Part I: Exploring Conservation's Basic Assumptions: Extinction; Rarity; Nativity. Part II: The Conservationist's Role Redefined: Humans and nature: is conservation meaningful?; How is nature to be safeguarded? Conservationist, custodian of wildness. Part III: A New Emphasis in Conservation: The problem with species: reviewing units of importance; Wildlife rehabilitation as conservation strategy?; Conservation and individual worth; compatibility: problems and answers. Part IV: The Upshot; Implications for Action: Managing wildness?; The new conservation; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Gill Aitken