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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"rewilding"”.
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The governance of rewilding in Scotland: discourse, process, and practice
… thesis aims to achieve a better understanding of rewilding governance and the<br/>processes which frame and steer rewilding within Scotland, with a particular interest in the<br/>ideas and practice of participation and the place of local communities in rewilding<br/>endeavours. This is important, …
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How rewilding impacts ecosystem health in a semi-arid region
Rewilding represents more than just the reintroduction of iconic charismatic species; it holds the potential to assist in reestablishing critical ecosystem functions, helping create dynamic, resilient, and self-sustaining ecosystems. Here I test the general idea that the reintroduction of megafauna …
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The Rewilding of New York's North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines and the Adirondacks
… while providing valuable context for future rewilding efforts within the Northeastern woodlands.
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The Rewilding of New York's North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines and the Adirondacks
… while providing valuable context for future rewilding efforts within the Northeastern woodlands.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Large Reptiles: Rewilding, Climate Change, and Conservation Palaeobiology
… effects for both natural habitats and society. Rewilding is the restoration of these ecosystem functions by returning locally extinct species or their ecological analogues to an environment. Rewilding also has the potential to limit the impact of future climate change on species and ecosystems …
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Rewilding in the Oder Delta, Germany-Poland: Ecological, social and economic drivers of landscape change
… ponies and Highland cattle now feature in the rewilding landscape of the Oder Delta. Rewilding is a function of deliberate efforts by conservationists to facilitate natural processes, alongside myriad other social, economic, ecological and geomorphic factors. The relative insignificance of …
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Consideration of possible futures for peri-urban sites based on restabilising ecosystem processes : rewilding nature and people
… collectively hinders ecosystem function. Rewilding offers an alternative solution without the same limitations. While it is documented that large-scale rewilding projects have seen an increase in biodiversity, further empirical evidence is needed to establish whether rewilding can be …
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Understanding Zea mays genetic influence on the structure and function of the rhizosphere microbiome
… maize. The dissertation closes by showing how “rewilding” the plant microbiome interaction could be a potential solution to improve our agricultural system. Modern agricultural practices have resulted in the unprecedented degradation of our global nitrogen cycle. This N-cycle disruption by …
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Impacts of flood-mediated disturbance on species of High Nature Value farmland
… disturbance processes, as advocated by the “rewilding” conservation movement. I set out to explore the feasibility of this approach, focusing on flooding. Restoration of flood regimes is receiving growing attention, not only for its biodiversity benefits but also to reduce the risk of …
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'Not Infinite Enough': Experimental British Poetics, Industrial Ecology and Scarcity, 1969-Present
… ecopolitical debates over degrowth and rewilding, and identifying some emerging directions for innovative ecopoetry in an extractive age.
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ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF A WILD NOCTURNAL PRIMATE, THE JAVAN SLOW LORIS (NYCTICEBUS JAVANICUS)
… may vary in the wild, but can also be applied to rewilding conservation for this critically endangered primate.
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Our Ice Age: The Geohistorical Imagination in the Northern Hemisphere
… of the philosophically-opposed practices of “rewilding” and geoengineering, the park represents an ambiguous response to the conditions of the Anthropocene. Theorizing the “geohistorical imagination” that threads through these texts, this research shows how representations of the ice age …
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Born To Be Wild: Tiger Persecution and Advocacy From 1800 to the Present
The tiger (Panthera tigris) was once abundant in many of Asia’s forests. The entire species now hovers dangerously close to extinction. Population declines within the last two centuries are blamed largely on loss of habitat, reductions in prey species, poaching, and human-tiger conflict. Modern …
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Wild entanglements: exploring the visions and dilemmas of ‘renaturing’ urban Britain
In a rapidly urbanising world, where lands are increasingly repurposed for human endeavours, where seas and rivers carry the weight of mounting plastic, where species extinction is a common theme and where the effects of global climate change are a daily reality, there has never been a more …
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The Interpreter as Co-Author: Pianists and the Practice of Interactive Re-Working
Whilst recent musicological scholarship in the field of WAM performance studies has recognised the creative role of the interpreter, notions that equate work-interpretation with Werktreue have remained almost entirely uncontested, resulting in an apparent presupposition that the composer’s role in …