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Assesses to what extent wilderness areas in Europe receive protection under international conventions, EU directives and domestic law.
This volume gives a comprehensive overview of wilderness mapping, and in doing so covers the conceptual and philosophical foundations, techniques and methodological approaches, and applications at a variety of spatial scales. The Editors have brought together a range of contributors who are both experts in their field and cutting-edge thinkers in the wilderness and spatial mapping domain. Spatial information technology and mapping science is a rapidly expanding and a developing field and so it is expected to be able to add to this volume in the future. This book provides a record of the "state of the art" and will enable the reader to follow this lead and map his/her own wilderness.
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 art...
Continuing the work it began in Hotspots, Conservation International identifies thirty-seven vital wilderness areas around the world, including tropical rainforests, arctic tundra, deserts, and wetlands, using more than five hundred stunning color photographs to illuminate the rich diversity of each region.
Concise, authorative descriptions of more than 500 still wild and primitive areas throughout North America which are preserved as national parks, wilderness areas and wildlife refuges.
This is a moving and inspirational set of eight essays on the meaning and future of Scotland's last wilderness areas. It charts intriguing and thought-provoking journeys through the remotest parts of Scotland, from a canoe trip down the River Dee to an epic climb of all the Munros.
Committee Serial No. 91-25. Considers 27 bills designating certain lands as wilderness areas and wildlife refuges.