Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Defining Wilderness Quality
Author: Wilderness management
Author: John C. HendeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Refining the Definition of Wilderness
Author: Martin HawesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648364405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Mapping Wilderness
Author: Stephen J. CarverPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401773998
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This volume gives a comprehensive overview of wilderness mapping, and in doing so covers the conceptual and philosophical foundations, techniques and methodological approaches, and applications at a variety of spatial scales. The Editors have brought together a range of contributors who are both experts in their field and cutting-edge thinkers in the wilderness and spatial mapping domain. Spatial information technology and mapping science is a rapidly expanding and a developing field and so it is expected to be able to add to this volume in the future. This book provides a record of the "state of the art" and will enable the reader to follow this lead and map his/her own wilderness.
Linking Wilderness Research and Management: Volume 2 - Defining, Managing, and Monitoring Wilderness Visitor Experiences: an Annotated Reading List
Author: Brian GlaspellPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781480172401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The 1964 Wilderness Act calls for "...an enduring resource of wilderness...for the use and enjoyment of the American people" and lists among the attributes of wilderness "outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation." These statements confirm experiential opportunities as one of the primary purposes of wilderness. Furthermore, by signing the act into law, Congress declared that wilderness experiences are so important they are worthy of protection by national legislation. Wilderness experiences have been credited with everything from personal psychological benefits to formation of the national character. Heavy or growing use levels at many wilderness areas are proof that the public increasingly values the opportunity to experience wilderness firsthand. In response to the fear that increasing use would threaten the experiential qualities of wilderness and wildlands, researchers with training in sociology, psychology, and anthropology began a focused program of outdoor recreation research in the 1960s. Although the initial focus was on determining objective visitor "carrying capacities" for protected areas, scientists soon found that the relationship between use numbers and wilderness visitor experiences is extremely complex. This research expanded to address the values that people hold for wilderness (including nonrecreation values), the types and dimensions of wilderness experiences, and factors that influence those experiences. Simultaneously, managers and scientists worked together to develop techniques and long-term planning frameworks to ensure that quality wilderness experiences continue to be available. Whereas early wilderness stewards had few resources other than instinct and personal experience to guide them, managers today have access to a significant body of literature related to defining, managing, and monitoring wilderness experiences. In fact, the volume of available information can be confusing or even overwhelming. This reading list gathers together and organizes a representative sample of this information in a way that we hope will be useful to both managers and researchers.
Defining, Managing, and Monitoring Wilderness Visitor Experiences
Author: Brian GlaspellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness area users
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Rewilding
Author: Nathalie PettorelliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472672
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.
Wilderness and the Quality of Life
Author: Maxine E. McCloskeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Beyond Naturalness
Author: David N. ColePublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597269115
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, pollution, invasive species, and climate change become both more pronounced and more pervasive? Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect park and wilderness values. The main conclusion is the idea that naturalness will continue to provide an important touchstone for protected area conservation, but that more specific goals and objectives are needed to guide stewardship. The issues considered in Beyond Naturalness are central not just to conservation of parks, but to many areas of ecological thinking—including the fields of conservation biology and ecological restoration—and represent the cutting edge of discussions of both values and practice in the twenty-first century. This bookoffers excellent writing and focus, along with remarkable clarity of thought on some of the difficult questions being raised in light of new and changing stressors such as global environmental climate change.
Inhabited
Author: Phillip VanniniPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada’s ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness offers a better – if messier – way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature’s vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.