Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation / edited by James N. Levitt ; with foreword by Stephen Woodley.

Contributor(s): Levitt, James N [editor.] | Woodley, Stephen [author of introduction, etc.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (377 pages) : color illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781558443228Subject(s): Nature conservation -- Societies, etc | Nature conservation -- International cooperation | Landscape protection -- Societies, etc | Landscape protection -- International cooperationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation.DDC classification: 333.72 LOC classification: QH75 | .C6627 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The wildlands and woodlands initiative / David Foster -- The University of Montana-Missoula : a campus with an ecoystem / Gary Tabor, Matthew McKinney, and Perry Brown -- Research networks and large-landscape conservation and restoration : the case of the Colorado River delta / Karl Flessa -- Conservation at the landscape scale -- Saving the Florida scrub : science and serendipity / Hilary Swain, Archbold Research Station, and Patricia Martin -- The Canadian BEACONS project and boreal forest conservation / Fiona Schmiegelow -- Working landscapes and the Western Hemisphere Jaguar Network / Joe Figel -- Philander Chase Corporation / Douglas Givens -- The quiet corner initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies / Mary Tyrrell, Matthew Fried, Mark Ashton, and Richard Campbell -- 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 -- Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid -- Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin -- The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott -- Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso -- A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung -- Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities -- A. Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey -- B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber -- The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The wildlands and woodlands initiative / David Foster -- The University of Montana-Missoula : a campus with an ecoystem / Gary Tabor, Matthew McKinney, and Perry Brown -- Research networks and large-landscape conservation and restoration : the case of the Colorado River delta / Karl Flessa -- Conservation at the landscape scale -- Saving the Florida scrub : science and serendipity / Hilary Swain, Archbold Research Station, and Patricia Martin -- The Canadian BEACONS project and boreal forest conservation / Fiona Schmiegelow -- Working landscapes and the Western Hemisphere Jaguar Network / Joe Figel -- Philander Chase Corporation / Douglas Givens -- The quiet corner initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies / Mary Tyrrell, Matthew Fried, Mark Ashton, and Richard Campbell -- 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 -- Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid -- Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin -- The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott -- Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso -- A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung -- Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities -- A. Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey -- B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber -- The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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