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A Land Before Humans, a Land after Humans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Introduced organisms--Control--New Zealand.
- Introduced organisms.
- Biological invasions--New Zealand--Management.
- Biological invasions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Essex : 5m Publishing Ltd., 2025.
- Summary:
- An invaluable resource for environment, ecology, animal welfare and ethics students, researchers and policy makers, A Land Before Humans, a Land After Humans takes New Zealand as a case study and looks at the practical and ethical considerations of dealing with invasive species.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Endorsements
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter One An unnatural history
- Chapter Two Beginnings
- Chapter Three Human landings
- Chapter Four Grief and atonement
- Chapter Five Restoring the dawn chorus
- Chapter Six Paths to extinction, paths to survival
- Chapter Seven Disputed technologies, different viewpoints
- Chapter Eight Landscapes, people and pests
- Chapter Nine A land with humans
- Appendices
- I Māori terms
- II Locational map
- III Selected species names
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-917159-07-2
- 1-917159-06-4
- OCLC:
- 1503841905
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