Yellowstone's survival : a call to action for a new conservation story / Susan G. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Susan G., author.

Series:

Anthem environment and sustainability initiative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--Yellowstone National Park Region.

Nature conservation.

Ecosystem management--Yellowstone National Park Region.

Ecosystem management.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Yellowstone National Park Region.

Human beings.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Yellowstone National Park Region.

Nature.

Yellowstone National Park.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the 'idea' of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), including Yellowstone National Park, the book, at its heart, is about people and nature relationships. This new paradigm will be truly committed to a healthy, sustainable environment, rich in other life forms, and one that affords dignity for all: humans and nonhumans. The new story or paradigm must be about living such a commitment and future for GYE in real time. The book presents a well-developed theory for interdisciplinary problem solving that is grounded in practice.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Frontispiece

Half-title page

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part1-3

Chapter 1 Stories of People, Nature, Yellowstone

Yellowstone and Our Stories

Individual stories of Yellowstone

Two opposing experiences

Excerpts from personal accounts

Cultural stories of Yellowstone

Yellowstone in historic culture

Yellowstone in contemporary culture

Nature and People

Yellowstone as nature

People and nature

Sense of nature

Nature and wild

Yellowstone-​a nexus for colliding stories

A collision of stories

Recycling endless conflict

Values and politicization

Yellowstone's Future

Our place in nature

Grounding issues

Basic and fundamental questions

Stories that materialize

Seeking meaningfulness

The problems of Yellowstone

A heuristic

Using the heuristic

Transitioning

Direction is all

Creating a new story

Conclusion

Part 1 Yellowstone as a Story

Chapter 2 Yellowstone and Significance

Plants and Animals

Plants

Animals

Invertebrates

Carnivores and Predation

Carnivores

Bears

Wolves

Cougars

Wolverines

Predation

Migrations and Movements

Elk and other large ungulates

Elk

Pronghorns

Mule deer

Bison

Bighorn sheep

Moose

Birds, bats, butterflies

Overview of migrating species

Chapter 3 Greater Yellowstone as a System

Life and Ecosystems

Ecosystems

Greater ecosystems

Evolution

Ecology and ecologists

Living in a World of Systems

Systems thinking

Systems basics

Scales

Geographic

Space

Time

Complexity

Stressors and opportunities

Complex Adaptive Systems

Systems concepts

Systems features.

Learning about systems

Our Cultural Ecology

People-us

Native Americans and Euro-American discovery

Euro-American exploration and settlers

Modern and postmodern humans

Promises to keep

Goals from history

Goals for the future

Reconfiguring history

Goals for today

Chapter 4 Boundaries and Context

Resources and Dimensions

Natural resources

Resource categories

Cultural resources

Values

Dimensions

Boundaries

Context

Patterns and process

Worldviews about Resources

Resource views

Material and immaterial

Critiques

Accumulation

Objects and objectification

Process of objectification

Philosophy of objectification

Manipulation and instruments

Instrumentalization

Education

Agency (personhood)

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's Context

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's environment

Social context

Participant groups

Regional context

Local context

National context

Understanding the national context is vital to understanding the present situation and for shaping GYE's future. There is great social and political change underway in the United States, and the consequences of that change are unclear in the intermediate

Cultural ideology

Currently

Global context

Global system

Responsibility

Part 2 People's Stories

Chapter 5 Controversy and Society

Society and Individuals

Society-who's version of reality counts?

Society and reality

Sociology and reality

Individuals

Levels of society

Individuals, groups, consciousness

Models of individuals

Groups

Society as consciousness

Society-Convention and Function

Influence, power, practices

Sociology and facades

Controversy and conflict

A way out?

Culture and Symbols

Society and culture

Beliefs as myths

Symbols.

Carnivores as symbols

Society and Institutions

Institutions

People and technology

Power mythology

Reality

Analyzing institutions

People's perspectives

Institutions in context

Chapter 6 People and Stories of Meaning

Eternal Questions and History

Foundational questions

Progressive history

Problematic history

Individual People-Psychology

The ecosystem's visitors and residents

Multiple perspectives

Personal and adult development

Existential psychology

Fast and slow thinking

Motivational psychology

Biology and Folk Stories

Social psychology

Human biology and the "struggle for existence"

Social struggle

Folk stories

Integrated people

Communication

Personal growth

Confronting convention

"Fake" Facts and Knowledge

Alternative facts

Spheres of reality

Experience and reality

Doubts and sanctions

Grounding One's Self

Ideas that shaped our thinking

Classic Era: The Greco-Roman worldview

Medieval Era: The Christian worldview

The Modern Era: Reformation and Scientific Revolution

Knowing and thinking

Science and economy

The GIVEN and the mind

So, what to do?

Chapter 7 Coherence and Policy

Management Policy for Greater Yellowstone

The policy process

Policy analytics

Participation in management policy

Elk management policy case

Elk and their management

The common problem-a definition

Recommendations for elk management

Policy and Society

Securing the nature-human environment

Constitutive process of authoritative decision

Policy process-strategies

Inherited public order in relation to resources

Decision-making functions

Policy arenas

Management policy arenas

Organizing effective arenas

Scientists in arenas

Integration and co-learning

The Starting Point.

Future mapping

A view of society

Futuring-criteria for making judgments

Mapping the future

Goals

Part 3 Working for Ecosytem Conservation

Chapter 8 Challenges and Future

Greater Yellowstone for Tomorrow

Social and decision processes

Possible futures

Problem Definitions

Defining problems

Kinds of problems

Persistent problems

Metaphors

Common Problems

Description

Problem diagnosis

Realistic problem definitions

Learn and transform

Practice-based work

Chapter 9 Learning and Transforming

Learning

Cody meeting: A case study

People's knowing, doing, and being

Knowing-a conscious knower

Doing

Being

Reflective experience

Learning what?

Experience

Reflection

Aesthetics

Transformation

Transforming ourselves

Deep shifts

Transforming capacity

Learning models

Learning about nature

Moral education

What to do?

Missing dialogue

Looking ahead

Occupations

Action and policy

Farsightedness

Greater Yellowstone's future

Future thinking

Future signals

Need for farsightedness

Strategy

Using our resources

Adaptation

Actions

Judging preferable futures

Appeals to collective judgments or law

Professional ethics

Chapter 10 The Work Ahead

The Bear as Our Story

A cautionary tale

Bear #399 and family

Significance of the bear story

Stories of personalizing animals

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's story

Ongoing experiment

A precarious story of GYE's future

A Working Strategy

Practice-based problem solving

Addressing problems

Human factors

Value transactions

Making partnerships work

Effective partnerships

Addressing weaknesses

Problem solvers

Active learning.

Rapid learning

Organizations and teams

Prototyping

Grounding the Strategy

Learning projects and networks

Comparing approaches

Organizational applications

Learning networks

Grounded examples

Other efforts

Obstacles and challenges

Common elements

Change targets

Biggest obstacles

Chapter 11 Creating a New Story, The Long View

A New Conservation Story

Taking stock and foundational matters

An accounting

In over our heads

Time of opportunity and a new story

Critical juncture

Toward a new, meaningful story

Upping our leadership capacity

Forward to a New Story

Seeing it whole for the first time

Addressing meaning

Addressing complexity

Adapting old stories

Fixing our present system of thought

Our thought and stories

Changing our thought

Finding a new order of things

Tuning our systems intelligence

Creating a holo-story and movement

Taking the Long View

Pragmatic hope-the bedrock

Reclaiming pragmatic hope

Building pragmatic hope

Using pragmatic hope

Collective transformative impact

Anchoring new modes of cooperation

Creating new modes of cooperation

Working forward institutionally

Making the new Greater Yellowstone story

Adjusting our relationships

Confronting our future

Our new Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem story

End Matter

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781785277337

1785277332

9781785277320

1785277324

OCLC:

1245923356