Exploiting The Wilderness
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Author |
: Greg L. Warchol |
Publisher |
: Temple University Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2017-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439913673 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439913676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exploiting the Wilderness by : Greg L. Warchol
Illegally harvested ivory and endangered plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even insects are easily found for sale throughout East and Southern Africa. And this is just one part of the multi-billion-dollar illegal global trade in wildlife. Wildlife is an important and even vital asset for both intrinsic and economic reasons. Yet it is illegally exploited on a massive scale to the point where some species now risk extinction. Exploiting the Wilderness provides a concise overview of this shameful business, describing some of the main species being exploited and examining select wildlife whose survival is imperiled due to heavy pressure from poachers to meet consumer demand. Greg Warchol draws on his firsthand experience and research in Africa to examine the structure and operation of the illegal trade in wildlife. He identifies the participants as well as their motivations and operations, and explains the behavior of poachers, traffickers, and consumers of illegally obtained goods. He concludes with a description of legislative and law enforcement efforts to control and prevent wildlife exploitation along with a number of contemporary conservation initiatives designed to improve the ability of rangers to protect wildlife.
Author |
: Phillip Vannini |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2016-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317568278 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317568273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilderness by : Phillip Vannini
Wilderness provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness: how we conceptualise it, experience it, interact with, and imagine it. Drawing upon key theorists, philosophers, and researchers who have contributed important knowledge to the topic, this title argues for a relational and process based notion of the term and understands it as a keystone for the examination of issues from conservation to more-than-human relations. The text is organized around themed chapters discussing the concept of wilderness and its place in the social imagination, wilderness regulation and management, access, travel and tourism, representation in media and arts, and the use of wilderness for education, exploration, play, and therapy, as well as its parcelling out in parks, reserves, or remote "wastelands". The book maps out the historical transformation of the idea of wilderness, highlighting its intersections with notions of nature and wildness and teasing out the implications of these links for theoretical debate. It offers boxes that showcase important recent case studies ranging from the development of adventure travel and eco-tourism to the practice of trekking to the changing role of technology use in the wild. Summaries of key points, further readings, Internet-based resources, short videos, and discussion questions allow readers to grasp the importance of wilderness to wider social, cultural, political, economic, historical and everyday processes. Wilderness is designed for courses and modules on the subject at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. The book will also assist professional geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, environmental and cultural studies scholars to engage with recent and important literature on this elusive concept.
Author |
: David Sievert Lavender |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 532 |
Release |
: 1998-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803279760 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803279766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fist in the Wilderness by : David Sievert Lavender
An oft-told story from different perspectives, the history of the American fur trade is here placed within the overall rivalry for empire between Britain and the United States. David Lavender focuses on men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British and made fur trading an integral economic activity in early U.S. history. Maps.
Author |
: Joshua C. Gellers |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2017-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315524399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315524392 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights by : Joshua C. Gellers
Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design in South Asia, Gellers presents a comprehensive response to this important question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant. Scholars, practitioners, and students of law, political science, and sociology interested in understanding how institutions cope with complex problems like environmental degradation and human rights violations will find this book to be essential reading.
Author |
: William DeBuys |
Publisher |
: UNM Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826308201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826308207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enchantment and Exploitation by : William DeBuys
This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.
Author |
: Keith Somerville |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2019-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787382220 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787382222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ivory by : Keith Somerville
Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade. The huge rise in poaching and ivory smuggling in the new millennium has destroyed the hope that the 1989 ivory trade ban had capped poaching and would lead to a long-term fall in demand. But why the new upsurge? The answer is not simple. Since ancient times, large-scale killing of elephants for their tusks has been driven by demand outside Africa's elephant ranges - from the Egyptian pharaohs through Imperial Rome and industrialising Europe and North America to the new wealthy business class of China. And, who poaches and why do they do it? In recent years lurid press reports have blamed mass poaching on rebel movements and armed militias, especially Somalia's Al Shabaab, tying two together two evils - poaching and terrorism. But does this account stand up to scrutiny? This new and ground-breaking examination of the history and politics of ivory in Africa forensically examines why poaching happens in Africa and why it is corruption, crime and politics, rather than insurgency, that we should worry about.
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 518 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105119494313 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Additions to the national wilderness preservation system by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks
Author |
: David Delaney |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 2003-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139437004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139437003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Nature by : David Delaney
This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expressed in both extra-legal disputes and their transformation and translation into forms of legal discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law and constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering the pragmatics of nature in connection with the very idea of law and the practice of American legal theorization. He then traces a set of specific political-legal disputes and arguments. The set consists of a series of contexts and cases organized around a conventional distinction between 'external' and 'internal nature': forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening, biological defenses in criminal cases, and involuntary medication of inmates. He demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal of 'nature' entails an interpretation of what it is to be (distinctively) human.
Author |
: Barbara Henderson |
Publisher |
: Pokey Hat |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2018-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1911279343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781911279341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilderness Wars by : Barbara Henderson
What if nature fights back?In a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea.And, far in the distance, a misty outline.Skelsay.Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be.And now, home. When her father's construction work takes Em's family to the uninhabited island of Skelsay, she is excited, but also a little uneasy. Soon Em and her friend Zac realise that the setbacks, mishaps and accidents on the island point to something altogether more sinister: the wilderness all around them has declared war.Danger lurks everywhere. But can Em and Zac persuade the adults to believe it before it's too late?
Author |
: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1957 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105045392094 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis National Wilderness Preservation Act by : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs