Author: Alberta. Fish and Wildlife DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife management
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Wildlife Management Systems on Private Lands in Alberta
Author: Alberta. Fish and Wildlife DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife management
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
Author: Shane P. MahoneyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421432811
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The foremost experts on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation come together to discuss its role in the rescue, recovery, and future of our wildlife resources. At the end of the nineteenth century, North America suffered a catastrophic loss of wildlife driven by unbridled resource extraction, market hunting, and unrelenting subsistence killing. This crisis led powerful political forces in the United States and Canada to collaborate in the hopes of reversing the process, not merely halting the extinctions but returning wildlife to abundance. While there was great understanding of how to manage wildlife in Europe, where wildlife management was an old, mature profession, Continental methods depended on social values often unacceptable to North Americans. Even Canada, a loyal colony of England, abandoned wildlife management as practiced in the mother country and joined forces with like-minded Americans to develop a revolutionary system of wildlife conservation. In time, and surviving the close scrutiny and hard ongoing debate of open, democratic societies, this series of conservation practices became known as the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. In this book, editors Shane P. Mahoney and Valerius Geist, both leading authorities on the North American Model, bring together their expert colleagues to provide a comprehensive overview of the origins, achievements, and shortcomings of this highly successful conservation approach. This volume • reviews the emergence of conservation in late nineteenth–early twentieth century North America • provides detailed explorations of the Model's institutions, principles, laws, and policies • places the Model within ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts • describes the many economic, social, and cultural benefits of wildlife restoration and management • addresses the Model's challenges and limitations while pointing to emerging opportunities for increasing inclusivity and optimizing implementation Studying the North American experience offers insight into how institutionalizing policies and laws while incentivizing citizen engagement can result in a resilient framework for conservation. Written for wildlife professionals, researchers, and students, this book explores the factors that helped fashion an enduring conservation system, one that has not only rescued, recovered, and sustainably utilized wildlife for over a century, but that has also advanced a significant economic driver and a greater scientific understanding of wildlife ecology. Contributors: Leonard A. Brennan, Rosie Cooney, James L. Cummins, Kathryn Frens, Valerius Geist, James R. Heffelfinger, David G. Hewitt, Paul R. Krausman, Shane P. Mahoney, John F. Organ, James Peek, William Porter, John Sandlos, James A. Schaefer
Wildlife Management and Conservation
Author: Paul R. KrausmanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421443961
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"The book contains the essential information that wildlife biologists and managers use to manage wildlife populations today, and it gives students the information they need to pursue a profession in wildlife management and conservation"--
Conservation and Logging on Private Land in Alberta
Author: Byron GrundbergPublisher: Alberta Environmental Protection
ISBN:
Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This document gives practical information about the effects of timber harvesting on soil, water, wildlife habitat, and aesthetics. It also provides information to help plan and conduct logging in a sustainable manner, including the use of cutblocks, native shelterbelts and buffer strips, roads, landings, and skid trails, surface disturbance and season of logging, utilization standards, and debris management.
Canadiana
Author: A Bibliography of Alberta Mammalogy
Author: D. M. EaleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Lists 3791 references for unpublished and published reports, articles and books relating to the mammalogy of Alberta, up to and including 1985.
Wildlife Production Systems
Author: Robert J. HudsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521340991
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This book, first published in 1989, examines the controversial position of commercial utilisation in relation to wildlife conservation. Production of large mammals has earned respectability as an agricultural strategy and its evaluation has been listed as a priority requirement in the World Conservation Strategy. However, many authorities question whether wildlife production is a viable economic and environmental strategy, and suggest that it runs counter to its claimed purpose. This book evaluates this controversy by chronicling the changing role of wildlife and by reflecting on the implications of these trends. The book should be of interest to people both applauding and deploring the use of wildlife in this economic role.
On the Living Edge
Author: Sarah L. KippPublisher: Nature Alberta
ISBN: 9780969613435
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Population, Technology and Land Use
Author: Charles BeaubienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Legal Tools and Incentives for Private Lands Conservation in Latin America
Author: Environmental Law InstitutePublisher: Environmental Law Institute
ISBN: 9781585760596
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This publication describes the use of legal tools and incentives mechanisms for the conservation of private lands in Latin America, and assesses their implementation record. It reviews both mandatory provisions and the use of voluntary instruments such as easements and private reserve designations that have grown in use since the early 1990s. It ends with recommendations for an improved framework for private lands conservation, and presents model laws for the creation of private reserves and conservation easements.