Rewilding North America : a vision for conservation in the 21st century

Foreman, Dave 1946- (Author).

Summary: Annotation Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time - the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear and powerful terms, but also offers a bold, hopeful, scientifically credible, and practically achievable solution.

Record details

ISBN: 1559630604
ISBN: 9781559630603
ISBN: 1559630612
ISBN: 9781559630610
Physical Description: print
xiv, 297 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington : Island Press, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-280) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.