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Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation / edited by James N. Levitt ; with foreword by Stephen Woodley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodley, Stephen, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature conservation--Societies, etc.
- Nature conservation.
- Nature conservation--International cooperation.
- Landscape protection--Societies, etc.
- Landscape protection.
- Landscape protection--International cooperation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 working and wild landscapes and waterscapes in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-55844-322-3
- OCLC:
- 929118948
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