Rewilding European Landscapes.
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Springer International Publishing AG,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Part I
- The Theory of Rewilding
- Chapter 1
- Rewilding Abandoned Landscapes in Europe
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 European Landscapes: Examining the Paradigms
- Were Traditional Agricultural Practices Environmentally Friendly?
- Did Traditional Rural Populations Live Well?
- Are Current Efforts to Maintain Traditional Landscapes Likely to Succeed?
- 1.3 The Benefits of Rewilding
- Defining Rewilding
- Benefits of Rewilding for Biodiversity
- Benefits of Rewilding for People: Ecosystem Services
- 1.4 The Challenges of Rewilding
- Conflicts with Wildlife
- Limits to Ecological Resilience
- 1.5 Final Remarks
- References
- Chapter 2
- European Wilderness in a Time of Farmland Abandonment
- 2.1 The History and Value of Wilderness
- 2.2 Measuring and Mapping Wilderness-A Brief Review of Metrics and Methods
- 2.3 Wilderness Metrics
- 2.4 Wilderness Conservation
- 2.5 Farmland Abandonment as Opportunity for Wilderness Expansion
- 2.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3
- Ecosystem Services: The Opportunities of Rewilding in Europe
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The Spatial Distribution of Ecosystem Services in Europe
- 3.3 Wilderness, Rewilding and Ecosystem Services
- Wilderness
- Methods
- Wilderness and Ecosystem Services
- Ecosystem Services and Scenarios of Rewilding
- 3.4 The Economic Benefits of Rewilding
- Regulating Benefits
- Cultural Benefits
- 3.5 Discussion
- References
- Part II
- Rewilding and Biodiversity
- Chapter 4
- Bringing Large Mammals Back: Large Carnivores in Europe
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Trends in Large Carnivores in Europe
- To the Edge of Extinction
- Multiple Causes of Recovery
- The Current Status of Populations
- Bears
- Wolves
- Eurasian Lynx
- 4.3 How Far Can We Take the Recovery Process?.
- What are the Characteristics of "Natural Predation Processes"?
- The Pervasive Impact of Humans
- The Social Tolerance of Humans for Large Carnivores and Large Herbivores
- The Problem of Natural Processes as a Goal
- From Wilderness and Natural Processes to a Future Orientated Coexistence
- 4.4 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5
- Top Scavengers in a Wilder Europe
- 5.1 Introduction: Rewilding Ecosystem Services, Not Only Vertebrate Populations
- 5.2 The Role of Carcasses Within Ecosystems
- 5.3 Vultures and Humans: An Unstable Alliance
- 5.4 Vulture Restaurants and the Loss of a Pulsed Resource
- 5.5 How do Vultures Fit into a Rewilding Continent?
- 5.6 New Services Provided by Vultures
- 5.7 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6
- Rewilding: Pitfalls and Opportunities for Moths and Butterflies
- 6.1 Rewilding Small-Sized Biodiversity Too
- 6.2 European Lepidoptera: Numbers and Trends
- 6.3 Lepidoptera: Diurnal and Nocturnal Life-Styles
- 6.4 Conservation Objectives: Semi-Natural Biotopes Versus Rewilding
- 6.5 Controlled Rewilding: Reconciling the Objectives
- 6.6 What About Fertile Agricultural Regions?
- 6.7 A Case Study: Farmland Abandonment in Peneda and Its Effects on Macro-moths
- 6.8 Habitat Resource Heterogeneity at Multiple Spatial Scales is Key
- 6.9 Wrapping It Up and the Way Forward
- References
- Chapter 7
- Vegetation Restoration and Other Actions to Enhance Wildlife in European Agricultural Landscapes
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The Agriculture and Conservation Paradox
- 7.3 Designing Restoration on Agricultural Land by Strategic Revegetation
- Strategic Revegetation in Farmed Fields
- Other Options for Strategic Revegetation in Agricultural Landscapes
- 7.4 Restoring or Creating Other Specific Elements to Benefit Wildlife and Particular Services
- 7.5 A Practitioner's Perspective.
- 7.6 Forest Restoration by Land Separation
- 7.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8
- Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 A Picture of Historical European Landscapes
- An Ongoing Debate…
- Temporal Evolution of the European Landscape
- 8.3 The Role of Natural Disturbances
- The Pre-Neolithic Ecosystem Engineers
- Fire Dynamics
- 8.4 Disturbances and Diversity
- Diversity and Intermediate Disturbance
- Effects of Land-Use Change on Disturbance Regimes
- 8.5 Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats
- Wild Herbivores: Natural (Re)colonization or (Re)introduction?
- Prescribed Burning
- 8.6 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Part III
- Rewillding in Practice
- Chapter 9
- Rewilding Europe: A New Strategy for an Old Continent
- 9.1 The Opportunity of Change
- 9.2 A New Vision for an Old Continent
- The Initiative
- Nominations from all over Europe
- Main Objectives
- The Operating Model
- 9.3 Applying the Model to the Rewilding Areas
- General
- Rewilding
- Communication
- Enterprise Development
- 9.4 First Results in the Rewilding Areas
- Western Iberia: Ancient Dehesa and Montado Landscapes
- Velebit Mountains: The Wild West of the Adriatic Coast
- Eastern Carpathians: One of Europe's Top Wildlife Areas
- Southern Carpathians: A Wilderness Arc at the Heart of Europe
- Danube Delta: Europe's Unrivalled Wetland
- 9.5 A Future Outlook for Rewilding Europe
- References
- Chapter 10
- Preparing a New Generation of Wilderness Entrepreneurs
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Entrepreneurship in Conservation Education
- 10.3 Case Study: The Erasmus Intensive Programme on European Wilderness Entrepreneurship
- 10.4 Designing a Wilderness Entrepreneurship Curriculum
- Wilderness Entrepreneurship Competences
- Learning Strategies for Wilderness Entrepreneurship Education.
- Learning Environments for Wilderness Entrepreneurship Education
- 10.5 Lessons Learned for Wilderness Entrepreneurship Education
- References
- Chapter 11
- Towards a European Policy for Rewilding
- 11.1 Introduction: A Historical Perspective
- 11.2 Current Conservation Policies in the EU
- Nationally Designated Protected Areas
- Birds and Habitats Directives
- Overall Picture of Protected Areas in the EU
- 11.3 Agriculture and Conservation
- 11.4 Opportunities for Wilderness and Rewilding
- 11.5 Global and European Conservation Targets
- 11.6 Recommendations for Rewilding
- References
- Index.