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Wolves and human communities : biology, politics, and ethics

Title
Wolves and human communities : biology, politics, and ethics / edited by Virginia A. Sharpe, Bryan G. Norton, and Strachan Donnelley.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2001], ©2001.

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  • Sharpe, Virginia A. (Virginia Ashby), 1959-
  • Norton, Bryan G.
  • Donnelley, Strachan.
Description
xi, 321 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-302).
Contents
  • Introduction / Virginia A. Sharpe, Bryan G. Norton and Strachan Donnelley -- I. Place and Process: Political and Policy Perspectives on Wolf Restoration. 1. Wolves as Bioregional Sovereigns / Daniel Kemmis. 2. Wolf Restoration to the Adirondacks: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Public Participation in the Decision / L. David Mech. 3. Wolf Restoration in the Adirondacks: The Perspective of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation / Robert A. Inslerman -- II. Voice: The Interests and Concerns of Stakeholders. 4. Wolves in the Adirondacks? Perspectives from the Heart of the Adirondack Park / Richard W. Sage, Jr. 5. The Two-Leggeds and the Four-Leggeds / Eli Thomas. 6. Facilitating Citizen Participation in Adirondack Wolf Recovery / Nina Fascione and Stephen R. Kendrot. 7. Overcoming Cultural Barriers to Wolf Reintroduction / Rodger Schlickeisen. 8. In Wolves' Clothing: Restoration and the Challenge to Stewardship / Jan E. Dizard --
  • III. Precedents and Antecedents in Law and Regulation. 9. Tracking a New Relationship: The Wolf in New York Law / Nicholas A. Robinson. 10. Legal and Policy Challenges of Environmental Restoration / Joseph L. Sax -- IV. Lessons Learned and Applied. 11. Lessons from Wolf Restoration in Greater Yellowstone / Timothy Clark and Anne-Marie Gillesberg. 12. Wolves as Top Carnivores: New Faces in New Places / Rolf O. Peterson. 13. Reintroduction: Inspired Policy or Poor Conservation? / Christine L. Schadler -- V. Wildness: The Wolf, the Human, and the Meaning or Responsibility. 14. The Problem of Living with Wildness / Mary Midgley. 15. Leopold's Wildness: Can Humans and Wolves Be at Home in the Adirondacks? / Strachan Donnelley. 16. The Tonic of Wildness / Ernest Partridge -- VI. Thinking Like a Mountain: Philosophical Analyses of Long-Term Human Obligations. 17. What Do We Owe the Future? How Should We Decide? / Bryan G. Norton.
  • 18. Sustainability, Environmental Policy, and the Reintroduction of Wolves / Clark Wolf -- VII. Consciousness: Ecological and Cultural. 19. The Ecological Implications of Wolf Restoration: Contemporary Ecological Principles and Linkages with Social Processes / Steward T. A. Pickett and Ricardo Rozzi. 20. A Hard Sell: The Cultural-Ecological Context of Reintroducing Wolves to the Adirondacks / Niles Eldredge.
ISBN
  • 1559638281 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 155963829X (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
00011113
OCLC
  • ocm44885126
  • SCSB-4135378
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries