Rewilding European Landscapes.
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2015. ©2015. |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I -- The Theory of Rewilding -- Chapter 1 -- Rewilding Abandoned Landscapes in Europe -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 European Landscapes: Examining the Paradigms -- Were Traditional Agricultural Practices Environmentally Friendly? -- Did Traditional Rural Populations Live Well? -- Are Current Efforts to Maintain Traditional Landscapes Likely to Succeed? -- 1.3 The Benefits of Rewilding -- Defining Rewilding -- Benefits of Rewilding for Biodiversity -- Benefits of Rewilding for People: Ecosystem Services -- 1.4 The Challenges of Rewilding -- Conflicts with Wildlife -- Limits to Ecological Resilience -- 1.5 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 2 -- European Wilderness in a Time of Farmland Abandonment -- 2.1 The History and Value of Wilderness -- 2.2 Measuring and Mapping Wilderness-A Brief Review of Metrics and Methods -- 2.3 Wilderness Metrics -- 2.4 Wilderness Conservation -- 2.5 Farmland Abandonment as Opportunity for Wilderness Expansion -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Ecosystem Services: The Opportunities of Rewilding in Europe -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Spatial Distribution of Ecosystem Services in Europe -- 3.3 Wilderness, Rewilding and Ecosystem Services -- Wilderness -- Methods -- Wilderness and Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystem Services and Scenarios of Rewilding -- 3.4 The Economic Benefits of Rewilding -- Regulating Benefits -- Cultural Benefits -- 3.5 Discussion -- References -- Part II -- Rewilding and Biodiversity -- Chapter 4 -- Bringing Large Mammals Back: Large Carnivores in Europe -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Trends in Large Carnivores in Europe -- To the Edge of Extinction -- Multiple Causes of Recovery -- The Current Status of Populations -- Bears -- Wolves -- Eurasian Lynx -- 4.3 How Far Can We Take the Recovery Process?. | |
505 | 8 | |a What are the Characteristics of "Natural Predation Processes"? -- The Pervasive Impact of Humans -- The Social Tolerance of Humans for Large Carnivores and Large Herbivores -- The Problem of Natural Processes as a Goal -- From Wilderness and Natural Processes to a Future Orientated Coexistence -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Top Scavengers in a Wilder Europe -- 5.1 Introduction: Rewilding Ecosystem Services, Not Only Vertebrate Populations -- 5.2 The Role of Carcasses Within Ecosystems -- 5.3 Vultures and Humans: An Unstable Alliance -- 5.4 Vulture Restaurants and the Loss of a Pulsed Resource -- 5.5 How do Vultures Fit into a Rewilding Continent? -- 5.6 New Services Provided by Vultures -- 5.7 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Rewilding: Pitfalls and Opportunities for Moths and Butterflies -- 6.1 Rewilding Small-Sized Biodiversity Too -- 6.2 European Lepidoptera: Numbers and Trends -- 6.3 Lepidoptera: Diurnal and Nocturnal Life-Styles -- 6.4 Conservation Objectives: Semi-Natural Biotopes Versus Rewilding -- 6.5 Controlled Rewilding: Reconciling the Objectives -- 6.6 What About Fertile Agricultural Regions? -- 6.7 A Case Study: Farmland Abandonment in Peneda and Its Effects on Macro-moths -- 6.8 Habitat Resource Heterogeneity at Multiple Spatial Scales is Key -- 6.9 Wrapping It Up and the Way Forward -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Vegetation Restoration and Other Actions to Enhance Wildlife in European Agricultural Landscapes -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Agriculture and Conservation Paradox -- 7.3 Designing Restoration on Agricultural Land by Strategic Revegetation -- Strategic Revegetation in Farmed Fields -- Other Options for Strategic Revegetation in Agricultural Landscapes -- 7.4 Restoring or Creating Other Specific Elements to Benefit Wildlife and Particular Services -- 7.5 A Practitioner's Perspective. | |
505 | 8 | |a 7.6 Forest Restoration by Land Separation -- 7.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 -- Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 A Picture of Historical European Landscapes -- An Ongoing Debate… -- Temporal Evolution of the European Landscape -- 8.3 The Role of Natural Disturbances -- The Pre-Neolithic Ecosystem Engineers -- Fire Dynamics -- 8.4 Disturbances and Diversity -- Diversity and Intermediate Disturbance -- Effects of Land-Use Change on Disturbance Regimes -- 8.5 Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats -- Wild Herbivores: Natural (Re)colonization or (Re)introduction? -- Prescribed Burning -- 8.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part III -- Rewillding in Practice -- Chapter 9 -- Rewilding Europe: A New Strategy for an Old Continent -- 9.1 The Opportunity of Change -- 9.2 A New Vision for an Old Continent -- The Initiative -- Nominations from all over Europe -- Main Objectives -- The Operating Model -- 9.3 Applying the Model to the Rewilding Areas -- General -- Rewilding -- Communication -- Enterprise Development -- 9.4 First Results in the Rewilding Areas -- Western Iberia: Ancient Dehesa and Montado Landscapes -- Velebit Mountains: The Wild West of the Adriatic Coast -- Eastern Carpathians: One of Europe's Top Wildlife Areas -- Southern Carpathians: A Wilderness Arc at the Heart of Europe -- Danube Delta: Europe's Unrivalled Wetland -- 9.5 A Future Outlook for Rewilding Europe -- References -- Chapter 10 -- Preparing a New Generation of Wilderness Entrepreneurs -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Entrepreneurship in Conservation Education -- 10.3 Case Study: The Erasmus Intensive Programme on European Wilderness Entrepreneurship -- 10.4 Designing a Wilderness Entrepreneurship Curriculum -- Wilderness Entrepreneurship Competences -- Learning Strategies for Wilderness Entrepreneurship Education. | |
505 | 8 | |a Learning Environments for Wilderness Entrepreneurship Education -- 10.5 Lessons Learned for Wilderness Entrepreneurship Education -- References -- Chapter 11 -- Towards a European Policy for Rewilding -- 11.1 Introduction: A Historical Perspective -- 11.2 Current Conservation Policies in the EU -- Nationally Designated Protected Areas -- Birds and Habitats Directives -- Overall Picture of Protected Areas in the EU -- 11.3 Agriculture and Conservation -- 11.4 Opportunities for Wilderness and Rewilding -- 11.5 Global and European Conservation Targets -- 11.6 Recommendations for Rewilding -- References -- Index. | |
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