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Wild life : the institution of nature / Irus Braverman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braverman, Irus, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wildlife conservation.
- Endangered species.
- Captive wild animals.
- Naturalness (Environmental sciences).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- What does conservation look like when long-established definitions of nature have collapsed? Wild Life draws on interviews with more than 120 leading conservationists to document the establishment and the collapse of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation, revealing the emerging understanding that all forms of wild nature may require perpetual management. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : natural life
- Puerto Rican crested toad
- Bifurcated life
- Northern and Sumatran rhinos
- Captive life
- Golden lion tamarin
- Continuous life
- Black-footed ferret
- Dynamic life
- Puerto Rican parrot
- Regulatory life
- Red wolf
- Integrated life
- Tasmanian devil
- Conclusion : wild life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0804795681
- 9780804793223
- 0804793220
- 9780804795685
- OCLC:
- 890793042
- Publisher Number:
- 99963199719
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