Routledge Handbook of Rewilding

Sally Hawkins is an environmental social scientist at the University of Cumbria, UK. She is a core member of the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group and a founding trustee of the Lifescape Project. Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria, co-chairs the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group, and is chair of IUCN CEM Western Europe. Steve Carver is Director of the Wildland Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK, and Co-Chair of the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group. Rene L. Beyers is a Research Associate in the Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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