Wolves and human communities:biology, politics, and ethics

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Sharpe Virginia A.; (Virginia Ashby), 1959-; Norton Bryan G.; Donnelley Strachan.
Published: Island Press,
Publisher Address: Washington, D.C.
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xi, 321 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1559638281 (cloth : alk. paper)
155963829X (paper : alk. paper)
Index Number: Q959
CLC: Q959.838.08
Call Number: Q959.838.08/W869
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wolves as bioregional sovereigns / Daniel Kemmis -- Wolf restoration to the Adirondacks : the advantages and disadvantages of public participation in the decision / L. David Mech -- Wolf restoration in the Adirondacks : the perspective of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation / Robert A. Inslerman -- Wolves in the Adirondacks? Perspectives from the heart of the Adirondack Park / Richard W. Sage, Jr. -- The two-leggeds and the four-leggeds / Eli Thomas -- Facilitating citizen participation in Adirondack wolf recovery / Nina Fascione and Stephen R. Kendrot -- Overcoming cultural barriers to wolf reintroduction / Rodger Schlickeisen -- In wolves' clothing : restoration and the challenge to stewardship / Jan E. Dizard -- Tracking a new relationship : the wolf in New York law / Nicholas A. Robinson -- Legal and policy challenges of environmental restoration / Joseph L. Sax -- Lessons from wolf restoration in Greater Yellowstone / Timothy Clark and Anne-Marie Gillesberg -- Wolves as top carnivores : new faces in new places / Rolf O. Peterson -- Reintroduction : inspired policy or poor conservation? / Christine L. Schadler -- The problem of living with wildness / Mary Midgley -- Leopold's wildness : can humans and wolves be at home in the Adirondacks? / Strachan Donnelley -- The tonic of wildness / Ernest Partridge -- What do we owe the future? How should we decide? / Bryan G. Norton -- Sustainability, environmental policy, and the reintroduction of wolves / Clark Wolf -- The ecological implications of wolf restoration : contemporary ecological principles and linkages with social processes / Steward T.A. Pickett and Ricardo Rozzi -- A hard sell : the cultural-ecological context of reintroducing wolves to the Adirondacks / Niles Eldredge.