Nature Conservation: A Critical Introduction

Author:   Klaus-Dieter Hupke
Publisher:   Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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Pages:   404
Publication Date:   02 January 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Klaus-Dieter Hupke
Publisher:   Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Imprint:   Springer Spektrum
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.556kg
ISBN:  

9783662661581


ISBN 10:   3662661586
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   02 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

1 What is nature for us?.- 2 Why nature conservation ?.- 3 Why nature conservation has the worse cards compared to environmental protection and animal protection .- 4 Nature conservation - on which areas?.- 5 Extreme locations - avoided by the economy, preferred by nature conservation?.- 6 Confusing diversity - area categories of nature and landscape conservation: Nature reserves, national parks, natural monuments, landscape conservation areas, nature parks.-7 Which nature do we want to protect and how?.- 8 The construction of natural balances - Ideal starting point of the demand for nature conservation.- 9 Help for endangered species? Red lists and endangerment categories.- 10 Of birds and butterflies: How nature conservation distributes its sympathies.- 11 What endangers nature?.- 12 Outlaws and helpers : the actors in nature conservation.- 13 Nature that does not deserve protection: spontaneous vegetation, ruderal communities, neophytes and neozoa.- 14 Process conservation as an alternative and a silver bullet?.- 15 Nature where no one expects it: in the city.- 16 Land used for military purposes - a nature idyll?.- 17 Second-hand nature: renaturation of quarries and open-cast mines.- 18 Is nature only intact if all species increase equally?.- 19 Nature conservation is successful: the example of large animal species.- 20 Habitats for land conservation in Central Europe.- 21 Small biotopes: their importance for biodiversity and nature conservation.- 22 Geological landscape objects in nature conservation.- 23 River straightening vs. river renaturation.- 24 Nature conservation in the forest: natural forest - permanent forest - clear-cutting?.- 25 Agricultural accompanying programs of nature conservation in Germany.- 26 Europe also gets involved: Federal Nature Conservation Act, FFH and Natura 2000.- 27 On the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in nature conservation.- 28 The silverware of the GDR? Nature conservation in the eastern German states.- 29 The world's oceans and Antarctica: international, therefore unprotected?.- 30 Nature conservation outside Europe.- 31 Nature conservation in the Third World - a pillar of neo-colonialism ?.- 32 Nature disappears, nature conservation arrives? - On the token function of nature conservation and nature-protected areas.- 33 Lines of conflict between nature conservation and environmental protection.- 34 Hikers, cyclists, motorists: How leisure modalities shape our view of nature.- 35 Man and nature - a constructed opposition?.- 36) Search for ideas: How can nature conservation be socially justified and anchored?.- 37 Nature conservation versus zeitgeist?.- 38 The benefits of diversity: reality, poetry or esotericism?.- 39 On the future of nature conservation.- 40 Are there alternative models for thinking about nature conservation?.- 41 Epilogue: Nature conservation expertise concerns everyone!

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Prof. Dr Klaus-Dieter Hupke is a lecturer in geography at Heidelberg University of Education.

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