| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-280) and index. |
| Contents |
Bad news -- The extinction crisis -- The pleistocene-holocene event: forty thousand years of extinction -- The first wave -- The second and third waves -- Ecological wounds of North America : direct killing and habitat loss -- Ecological wounds of North America : fragmentation, loss of ecological processes, exotic species, pollution, and climate change -- Good news -- Conservation biology -- Rewilding North America -- Selecting and designing protected areas: the early days -- Selecting and designing protected areas: the past two decades -- The importance of wilderness areas -- Taking action -- Putting the pieces together: building a North American Wildlands network -- An ecological approach to wilderness area selection and design -- Land management reforms for implementing the North American Wildlands network -- Hope for the future. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wilderness areas -- North America.
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Biodiversity conservation -- North America.
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Extinction (Biology) -- North America.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Foreman, Dave, 1946- Rewilding North America. Washington : Island Press, ©2004 1559630604 1559630612 (DLC) 2004002132 (OCoLC)54400145 |
| ISBN |
1423767209 (electronic bk.) |
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9781423767206 (electronic bk.) |
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9781610911559 |
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1610911555 |
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1559630604 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781559630603 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1559630612 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781559630610 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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