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Rewilding North America :

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Rewilding North America :

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a vision for conservation in the 21st century /

Dave Foreman.

Washington :

Island Press,

©2004.

1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) :

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

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.

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"In Rewilding North America, Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear terms, but also offers a scientifically-credible, and practically achievable solutions."--Jacket.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Rewilding North America.

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Biodiversity conservation-- North America.

Extinction (Biology)-- North America.

Wilderness areas-- North America.

Biodiversité-- Conservation-- Amérique du Nord.

Extinction (Biologie)-- Amérique du Nord.

Réserves de la vie sauvage-- Amérique du Nord.

Biodiversität

Biodiversity conservation.

Extinction (Biology)

NATURE-- Animals-- Wildlife.

Renaturierung

SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Biological Diversity.

Wilderness areas.

Nordamerika

North America.

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