Rethinking park protection
Subtitle: treading the uncommon ground of environmental beliefs
By: Will La Page
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781845939991; 9781780640013
Subjects: Management; Conservation and restoration; Social aspects; Philosophy; Parks; Environmental protection; Environmental policy; National parks and reserves; Political aspects; Belief and doubt
Description: "In today's society, hidden beliefs can subtly guide the management of parks, such as treating them as natural resources rather than national assets. Resulting management practices often lead to deferred maintenance on park infrastructure, causing inadequate protection from vandalism, poaching, and theft of artefacts. A sad demise, often due to an out-dated belief that parks are non-essential leisure services rather than necessities for a vibrant modern life. This book challenges the reader to examine the core beliefs that created our public parklands, comparing them with the beliefs that guide contemporary park stewardship in an effort to improve the management of parks and reassess their purpose in modern life."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: A call to action; title: pt. 1. Tending Parks in a Field of Competing Beliefs; title: The Ecology of Belief : It's all in the Connections; title: The Power of Belief : The Real Limits of Preservation; title: The Energy and Dynamics of Belief; title: Norms, Ethics, and Beliefs in Parks; title: Organizational Beliefs : From Visionary to Functionary; title: Beliefs as Values, Possessions, and Lenses; title: pt. 2. Cutting through the Tangled Roots of Belief; title: Credibility, Authenticity, Believability, and Park Maintenance; title: Patterns of Thinking, Structures of Believing; title: The Nesting Habits of Beliefs and the Belief Tree; title: The Symbolism of Beliefs : Signs, Symbols, Icons, and Omens; title: This I Believe : Discovering Your Belief System; title: Belief Bites : Truisms, Metaphors, Aphorisms, Wisdom of the Ages; title: Beliefs as Environmental Super Highways and Roadblocks; title: pt. 3. Cultivating the Wide World of Supporting Beliefs; title: Belief-Based Science and Research Methods; title: From Beliefs to Science and Back Again; title: Politics of Belief : Park Wildlife as a Case Study; title: Parks as Spiritual, Sacred, and Religious Beliefs; title: Toward Environmental Sanity through the Ecology of Belief; title: Parks as Belief : Making Peace with Paradox; title: Afterword: The Human Need Maslow Rejected : The Need to Believe.