Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals: Human Perceptions, Attitudes and Approaches to Management

ISBN-13: 9781849710718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 392 str.

Robert A Lambert

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This title brings together for the forst time ecologists, landscape managers and conservationists to give considered and balanced views of issues of perceptions of and attitudes to invasive species.

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Part 1: Setting the Scene.  1. Balancing Species History, Human Culture and Scientific Insight: Introduction and Overview.  2. Human Interactions with Non-Native Species Part 2: Attitudes and Perceptions.  3. Over Here: American Animals in Britain.  4. How the Concept of Alien Species Emerged and Developed in Twentieth-Century Britain.  5. Nativeness and Nationhood: What Species 'Belong' in Post-devolution Scotland?  6. Who is the Invader? Alien Species, Property Rights, and the Police Power.  7. Whales, Whitefellas and the Ambiguity of 'Nativeness': Reflections on the Emplacement of Australian Identities.  8. The Rise of Modern Invasion Biology and American Attitudes Towards Introduced Species.  9. Anekeitaxonomy: Botany, Place and Belonging.  10. The other Side of Bio-Invasion: The Example of Acclimatization in Germany  Part 3: Case Studies and Case Histories.  11. Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Return of the Native 'Aliens' and the (Re)wilding of Britain's Skies, 1850-2010.  12. Public Perception of Invasive Alien Species in Mediterranean Europe.  13. The Human Dimensions of Invasive Plants in Tropical Africa.  14. Plant Invasions – The Case of Acclimatisation and wild Gardeners.  16. Factors Affecting People's Response to Invasive Species Management.  17. The Paradox of Invasive Species in Ecological Restoration: Do Restorationists Worry about Them Too Much or Too Little?  18. A View from Continental Europe: The Case-study of Prunus Serotina in France in Comparison with other Invasives.  19. Native or Alien? The Case of the Wild Boar in Britain.  20. Exotic and Invasive Species: An Economic Perspective.  21. Satisfaction in a Horse: The Perception and Assimilation of an Exotic Animal into Maori Custom Law.  22. Fire and Loathing in the Fynbos: Notions of Indigenous and alien vegetation in South Africa's Western Cape, c.1902-1945  23. Biological Invasion and Narratives of Environmental History in New Zealand, 1800-2000s.  Part 4: The Way Ahead: Conclusions and Challenges.  24. Good Science, Good History and Pragmatism: Managing the way ahead.  Index