The New Wild
By Fred Pearce
By Fred Pearce
By Fred Pearce
By Fred Pearce
Category: Science & Technology
Category: Science & Technology
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$21.00
Apr 05, 2016 | ISBN 9780807039557
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Apr 07, 2015 | ISBN 9780807033692
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Praise
An Economist Book of the Year
“[Pearce] hits the nail on the head… [He] brings the balanced perspective of a seasoned, freethinking environmental reporter, pushing points that need to be made.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Pearce shows that biodiversity actually increases more frequently than it decreases when newer wildlife marches in. Must reading for environmentalists of every stripe, and an optimistic report on the resilience of nature in a world of constantly shifting ecosystems.”
—Booklist
“Pragmatic conservation has to begin with undogmatic, realistic ecology, which shows that alien-invasive plants and animals almost always increase biodiversity—and therefore nature’s general health and robustness. Fred Pearce’s ‘new wild’ suggests a matching ‘new conservation.’”
—Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline
“I wholly agree with Fred Pearce’s argument for rewilding. Life, from the smallest bacterium to the whole living planet, is dynamic. Species do not belong in a planet-sized zoo. We should let Gaia evolve.”
—James Lovelock, author of The Vanishing Face of Gaia and A Rough Ride to the Future
Praise for Fred Pearce
“Terrific . . . [Pearce has] produced a work of required reading for anyone concerned about global justice in the twenty-first century.”
—Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing
“ . . . enriching and farsighted . . .”
—Jai Singh, San Francisco Chronicle
Table Of Contents
On Language
Acronyms
Introduction: Nature in a World of Humans
Part One: Alien Empires
Chapter 1: On Green Mountain
Chapter 2: New Worlds
Chapter 3: All at Sea
Chapter 4: Welcome to America
Chapter 5: Britain: A Nation Tied in Knotweed
Part Two: Myths and Demons
Chapter 6: Ecological Cleansing
Chapter 7: Myths of the Aliens
Chapter 8: Myths of the Pristine
Chapter 9: Nativism in the Garden of Eden
Part Three: The New Wild
Chapter 10: Novel Ecosystems
Chapter 11: Rebooting Conservation in the Urban Badlands
Chapter 12: Call of the New Wild
Latin Names
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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