Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation

Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation / edited by James N. Levitt ; with foreword by Stephen Woodley.

"This multi-author volume explores large-landscape conservation projects catalyzed by colleges, universities, independent field stations, and research organizations around the world. These initiatives are grand-scale, cross-boundary, cross-sectoral, and cross-disciplinary efforts to protect wor...

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Other Authors: Levitt, James N. (Editor), Woodley, Stephen J. (Stephen Jerome), 1951- (writer of the foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, [2014]
Subjects:
Nature conservation > Societies, etc.
Nature conservation > International cooperation.
Landscape protection > Societies, etc.
Landscape protection > International cooperation.
Nature conservation > International cooperation
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Table of Contents:
  • The wildlands and woodlands initiative / David Foster
  • The University of Montana-Missoula : a campus with an ecoystem / Gary Tabor, Matthew McKinney, and Perry Brown
  • Research networks and large-landscape conservation and restoration : the case of the Colorado River delta / Karl Flessa
  • Conservation at the landscape scale
  • Saving the Florida scrub : science and serendipity / Hilary Swain, Archbold Research Station, and Patricia Martin
  • The Canadian BEACONS project and boreal forest conservation / Fiona Schmiegelow
  • Working landscapes and the Western Hemisphere Jaguar Network / Joe Figel
  • Philander Chase Corporation / Douglas Givens
  • The quiet corner initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies / Mary Tyrrell, Matthew Fried, Mark Ashton, and Richard Campbell
  • Alternative futures modeling in Maine's Penobscot River Watershed : forging a regional identity for river restoration / Robert J. Lilieholm, Christopher S. Cronan, Michelle L. Johnson, Spencer R. Meyer, and Dave Owen
  • Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid
  • Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin
  • The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott
  • Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso
  • A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung
  • Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities
  • A. Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey
  • B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber
  • The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman.

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