Format:
1 online resource (519 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780748630639
Content:
A textbook introduction to Scotland's natural environment covering land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and birds of prey, the place of forestry, and the control of alien species and red deer, and taking up the challenge of integrating conservation with social and economic objectives.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Expanded contents list -- Figures -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Foreword -- Part One The nature and control of the land -- CHAPTER ONE The shaping of Scotland's environment -- CHAPTER TWO The political and planning context -- Part Two The pieces of the jigsaw -- CHAPTER THREE The land: who should own Scotland? -- CHAPTER FOUR The trees: forest management -- CHAPTER FIVE The fields: agriculture and crofting -- CHAPTER SIX The waters: freshwater resource management -- CHAPTER SEVEN The animals: wildlife management -- CHAPTER EIGHT The 'natural': conservation management -- Part Three Interactions and controversies -- CHAPTER NINE Public access and recreation: whose rights and whose responsibility? -- CHAPTER TEN Natives, aliens and reintroductions: what species where? -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Integrating forestry: deer in woodlands, and trees on farms -- CHAPTER TWELVE Powering Scotland: windfarms and the energy debate -- Part Four Thinking and deciding about the environment -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Environmental ethics and decision-making -- Part Five Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Environmental management in twenty-first-century Scotland -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748624904
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780748624904
Language:
English
URL:
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