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- catalog abstract ""Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity, it is believed, is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing the need to halt extinction and value biodiversity, it shows that biodiversity needs to be understood, perhaps being replaced by the notion of 'wildness'. It defines the features of holistic categories and demonstrates the importance of process. The book also establishes - through an analysis of the practice of wildlife rehabilitation - that the individual is important to conservation. With these insights, a new conservation is proposed: one which makes more room for the value of neglected and which propounds, not only that wildness is the means by which nature is best safeguarded, but that wildness is not incompatible with certain kinds of human intervention, such as that necessary to achieve successful wildlife rehabilitation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13138566.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity, it is believed, is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing the need to halt extinction and value biodiversity, it shows that biodiversity needs to be understood, perhaps being replaced by the notion of 'wildness'. It defines the features of holistic categories and demonstrates the importance of process. The book also establishes - through an analysis of the practice of wildlife rehabilitation - that the individual is important to conservation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Part I: Exploring conservation's basic assumptions -- Extinction -- Rarity -- Nativity -- Part II: The conservationist's role redefined -- Humans and nature: is conservation meaningful? -- How is nature to be safeguarded? Conservationist, custodian of wilderness -- Part III: a new emphasis in conservation -- The problem with species: reviewing units of importance -- Wildlife rehabilitation as conservation strategy? -- Conservation and individual worth; compatibility: problems and answers -- Part IV: The upshot; implications for action -- Managing wilderness? -- The new conservation.".
- catalog description "With these insights, a new conservation is proposed: one which makes more room for the value of neglected and which propounds, not only that wildness is the means by which nature is best safeguarded, but that wildness is not incompatible with certain kinds of human intervention, such as that necessary to achieve successful wildlife rehabilitation."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 204 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0754632830 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog subject "333.95/16 22".
- catalog subject "Nature conservation.".
- catalog subject "QH75 .A4 2003".
- catalog subject "Wildlife rehabilitation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: Exploring conservation's basic assumptions -- Extinction -- Rarity -- Nativity -- Part II: The conservationist's role redefined -- Humans and nature: is conservation meaningful? -- How is nature to be safeguarded? Conservationist, custodian of wilderness -- Part III: a new emphasis in conservation -- The problem with species: reviewing units of importance -- Wildlife rehabilitation as conservation strategy? -- Conservation and individual worth; compatibility: problems and answers -- Part IV: The upshot; implications for action -- Managing wilderness? -- The new conservation.".
- catalog title "A new approach to conservation : the importance of the individual through wildlife rehabilitation / Gill Aitken.".
- catalog type "text".