Conservation catalysts
Subtitle: the academy as nature's agent
By: edited by James N. Levitt
Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558443013
Subjects: Nature conservation; Societies; International cooperation; Landscape protection
Description: "This multi-author volume explores large-landscape conservation projects catalyzed by colleges, universities, independent field stations, and research organizations around the world. These initiatives are grand-scale, cross-boundary, cross-sectoral, and cross-disciplinary efforts to protect working and wild landscapes and waterscapes in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wildlands and woodlands initiative / David Foster; title: The University of Montana-Missoula : a campus with an ecoystem / Gary Tabor, Matthew McKinney, and Perry Brown; title: Research networks and large-landscape conservation and restoration : the case of the Colorado River delta / Karl Flessa; title: Conservation at the landscape scale; title: Saving the Florida scrub : science and serendipity / Hilary Swain, Archbold Research Station, and Patricia Martin; title: The Canadian BEACONS project and boreal forest conservation / Fiona Schmiegelow; title: Working landscapes and the Western Hemisphere Jaguar Network / Joe Figel; title: Philander Chase Corporation / Douglas Givens; title: The quiet corner initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies / Mary Tyrrell, Matthew Fried, Mark Ashton, and Richard Campbell; title: Alternative futures modeling in Maine's Penobscot River Watershed : forging a regional identity for river restoration / Robert J. Lilieholm, Christopher S. Cronan, Michelle L. Johnson, Spencer R. Meyer, and Dave Owen; title: Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid; title: Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin; title: The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott; title: Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso; title: A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung; title: Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities; title: A. Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey; title: B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber; title: The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman.