Karen Lloyd

Abundance (eBook, ePUB)

Nature in Recovery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION.

How should we restore nature and species, and why does it matter? What is lost when we choose not to engage in restoration of the natural world? And which parts of ourselves might we also lose if we choose not to help restore and renew the natural world before it's too late?

In this collection, Karen Lloyd explores abundance and loss in the natural world, relating compelling stories of restoration, renewal and repair, describing how those working on the front lines of conservation are challenging the inevitability of biodiversity loss, as well as navigating her own explorations of the meaning of abundance in the Anthropocene.

In an era of urgent ecological challenge, this timely book reveals the places that people are coming together to bring species and habitats back from the edge of extinction. Yet, elsewhere, many other species are being allowed to disappear forever. To understand why, she examines how humans have chosen to entangle themselves in nature and considers the ways we perceive the natural world.

A book about ways of seeing, as Lloyd explores attitudes towards meaningful restoration, she weaves her insightful and joyous narrative through a diverse range of inspiring landscapes, from Romania's Carpathian mountains and the Hungarian Steppe to Perthshire's rivers and the dune forests of the Netherlands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472989093
• Artikelnr.: 62368729

Autorenporträt

Karen Lloyd is a writer of non-fiction and poetry. She has published two previous works of non-fiction, both published by Saraband. The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay (2016) was selected by Katherine Norbury as her top read in the Observer Authors' Books of the Year. The Blackbird Diaries was published in 2017. Both won awards at The Lakeland Book of the Year Awards.

Karen edited and published Curlew Calling, An Anthology of Nature Writing, Poetry and Images in Celebration of Curlew, to raise funds for various curlew conservation projects including the British Trust for Ornithology's work. She is a contributor to the Guardian, BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines and the RGS amongst others.

Inhaltsangabe

A Primer for Abundance
To Receive the Wolf
Circumspect Dancing in Fields
Dust
Mrs Janossy Goes Shopping for Cats
Human Resilience Training
Beavergeddon
Dance Halls of Desire
Eighty Fragments on the Pelican
Viewing Stations
Ecdysis
The Bear, the Taxi Driver and the Custard Cream
Cathedral Thinking
Incoming
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Select Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

It is noteworthy for its impressive lyricism, the experimental nature of its format and for the philosophical richness and variety of its content.