Routledge Handbook of Rewilding: (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding. Rewilding offers a transformational paradigm shift in conservation thinking, and as such is increasingly of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners. However, as a rapidly emerging area of conservation, the term has often been defined and used in a variety of different ways (both temporally and spatially). There is, therefore, the need for a comprehensive assessment of this field, and the Routledge Handbook of Rewilding fills this lacuna. The handbook is organised into four sections to reflect key areas of rewilding theory, practice, and debate: the evolution of rewilding, theoretical and practical underpinnings, applications and impacts, and the ethics and philosophy of rewilding. Drawing on a range of international case studies the handbook addresses many of the key issues, including land acquisition and longer-term planning, transitioning from restoration (human-led, nature enabled) to rewilding (nature-led, human enabled), and the role of political and social transformational change. Led by an editorial team who have extensive experience researching and practising rewilding, this handbook is essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in rewilding, ecological restoration, natural resource management and conservation.

Table of Contents:
SECTION 1 THE EVOLUTION OF REWILDING Introduction: What is rewilding? Sally Hawkins, Rene Beyers, Steve Carver and Ian Convery The emergence of rewilding in North America Mark Fisher and Steve Carver The emergence of rewilding in Europe Alexandra Locquet and Steve Carver Ecological restoration and rewilding: Integrating communities of practice to achieve common goals Cara R. Nelson Developing a framework for rewilding based on its social-ecological aims Sally Hawkins SECTION 2 THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF REWILDING Trophic cascades as a basis for rewilding T.J. Clark-Wolf and Mark Hebblewhite Species translocations, taxon replacements, and rewilding Mark Stanley-Price Cores and corridors: Natural landscape linkages to rewild protected areas and wildlife refuges Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Andrew Gregory and Adrien Guette Mapping wildness and opportunities for rewilding Steve Carver Measuring success in rewilding: Ecological overview René Beyers and Antony R.E. Sinclair Measuring success in rewilding? Coping with socio-ecological uncertainties in rewilding projects Meredith Root-Bernstein Rewilding ‘knowledges’: Blending science and Indigenous knowledge systems Lisa Fenton and Zoe Playdon Rewilding: A legal perspective Adam Eagle, Alex Cooper, Rob Espin, Jack Gould and Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby SECTION 3 APPLICATION AND IMPACTS OF REWILDING Rewilding case study: Yellowstone to Yukon Jodi Hilty, Charles Chester and Pamela Wright Rewilding case study: Carrifran Wildwood Stuart Adair and Philip Ashmole Rewilding case study: Going wild in Argentina, a multidisciplinary and multispecies reintroduction programme to restore ecological functionality Emiliano Donadio, Talía Zamboni and Sebastián Di Martino Rewilding case study: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique Rob Pringle and Dominique Gonçalves Rewilding case study: Restoring Western Australia’s rangelands: Mutawa/Kurrara Kurrara Ian Kealley and Neil Burrows Rewilding case study: Forest restoration: conservation outcomes and lessons from Terai Arc Landscape, Nepal Ananta Ram Bhandari and Shiv Raj Bhatta Rewilding case study: Monitoring natural capital and rewilding at the Natural Capital Laboratory, Birchfield, Loch Ness Chris White, Emilia Leese, Ian Convery, and Philip Rooney Eco-civilisation provides new opportunities for rewilding in China Yue Cao, Zhicong Zhao, Rui Yang, Steve Carver, and Ian Convery Restoring what we’ve lost: Lessons from evolutionary history for rewilding and coexisting in landscapes with predators Joanna E. Lambert and Joel Berger Rewilding and farming: Could the relationship be improved through adopting a three compartment approach to land use? Julia Aglionby and Hannah Field Unseen connections: The role of fungi in rewilding David Sattori and Matt Wainhouse Rewilding and human health Heather VanVolkenburg, Rene Beyers, Cara Nelson, Liette Vasseur, Angela Andrade, Ian Convery and Steve Carver Rewilding, the wildlife trade, and human conflict René Beyers and Sally Hawkins Rewilding children and young people: The role of education and schools Heather Prince Wild adventure: A restorying Chris Loynes SECTION 4 WILDER VALUES: THE ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF REWILDING Wilder values: The ethics and philosophy of rewilding Kate Rawles (section editor) Rewilding from the inside out: A personal commitment to other animals and their homes during the Anthropause and afterwards Marc Bekoff Rewilding and cultural transformation: Healing nature and reweaving humans back into the web of life. Peter Taylor, Alan Watson Featherstone, Simon Ayres, Adam Griffin and Eric Maddern Wild democracy: Ecodemocracy in rewilding Helen Kopnina, Simon Leadbeater, and Anja Heister Rewilding and the ethics of place Martin Drenthen Knepp Wildland; the ethos and efficacy of Britain’s first private rewilding project Simon Leadbeater, Helen Kopnina and Paul Cryer Human rewilding: Practical pointers to address a root cause of global environmental crises Georgina Maffey and Koen Arts