Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals

Human Perceptions, Attitudes and Approaches to Management
Herausgeber: Rotherham, Ian D; Lambert, Robert A

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Produktbeschreibung

"Earthscan publishes in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 167mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 755g
• ISBN-13: 9781849710718
• ISBN-10: 1849710716
• Artikelnr.: 29953679

Autorenporträt

Ian Rotherham is a leading researcher and writer on ecological history with a long-standing interest in exotic and invasive animals and plants. He is a Reader, Director of the Geography, Tourism, and Environment Research Unit, and International Research Co-ordinator at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Rob Lambert has a dual appointment at the University of Nottingham, UK, as lecturer in environmental history and lecturer in tourism and the environment. He is also a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and co-editor of the journal Environment and History.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Setting the Scene. 1. Balancing Species History, Human Culture and
Scientific Insight: Introduction and Overview. 2. Human Interactions with
Non-Native Species Part 2: Attitudes and Perceptions. 3. Over Here:
American Animals in Britain. 4. How the Concept of Alien Species Emerged
and Developed in Twentieth-Century Britain. 5. Nativeness and Nationhood:
What Species 'Belong' in Post-devolution Scotland? 6. Who is the Invader?
Alien Species, Property Rights, and the Police Power. 7. Whales,
Whitefellas and the Ambiguity of 'Nativeness': Reflections on the
Emplacement of Australian Identities. 8. The Rise of Modern Invasion
Biology and American Attitudes Towards Introduced Species. 9.
Anekeitaxonomy: Botany, Place and Belonging. 10. The other Side of
Bio-Invasion: The Example of Acclimatization in Germany Part 3: Case
Studies and Case Histories. 11. Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Return of
the Native 'Aliens' and the (Re)wilding of Britain's Skies, 1850-2010. 12.
Public Perception of Invasive Alien Species in Mediterranean Europe. 13.
The Human Dimensions of Invasive Plants in Tropical Africa. 14. Plant
Invasions - The Case of Acclimatisation and wild Gardeners. 16. Factors
Affecting People's Response to Invasive Species Management. 17. The Paradox
of Invasive Species in Ecological Restoration: Do Restorationists Worry
about Them Too Much or Too Little? 18. A View from Continental Europe: The
Case-study of Prunus Serotina in France in Comparison with other Invasives.
19. Native or Alien? The Case of the Wild Boar in Britain. 20. Exotic and
Invasive Species: An Economic Perspective. 21. Satisfaction in a Horse: The
Perception and Assimilation of an Exotic Animal into Maori Custom Law. 22.
Fire and Loathing in the Fynbos: Notions of Indigenous and alien vegetation
in South Africa's Western Cape, c.1902-1945 23. Biological Invasion and
Narratives of Environmental History in New Zealand, 1800-2000s. Part 4: The
Way Ahead: Conclusions and Challenges. 24. Good Science, Good History and
Pragmatism: Managing the way ahead. Index