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Wild Minds: Adventure Therapy, Ecopsychology, and the Rewilding of HumanityHafford, William January 2015 (has links)
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Narrating Rewilding: Shifting Images of Wilderness in American LiteratureCloyd, Aaron Andrew 01 January 2015 (has links)
Narrating Rewilding analyzes interactions between imaginative writings and environmental histories to ask how novels and creative nonfiction contribute to conversations of wilderness rewilding. I identify aspects of rewilding in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, and Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge within a context of William Cronon’s and James Feldman’s works of environmental history, and I argue that the selected imaginative works offer alternative ramifications of rewilding by questioning Cronon’s and Feldman’s anthropocentric basis.
While Cronon and Feldman argue that a rewilding wilderness expresses interconnections between human history and expressions of nature, and that a return of wild aspects benefits human understanding and interaction within wilderness areas, in these imaginative writings, wildernesses are sites that flatten hierarchies between natural elements and human aspects, places where characters languish. They are lands deeply layered with both natural and cultural histories, but aspects of the past often remain beyond reach. Rewilding in these wildernesses equates with damage and loss.
Taken together, I argue that these narratives of wilderness rewilding augment one another, creating a dialog where Cronon’s and Feldman’s discourses of environmental recovery and of human gain inform corresponding imaginative writings but are also challenged by models of lament and loss. This restructured approach to wilderness rewilding offers a widened range of potential responses to an ever-changing, ever-rewilding wilderness.
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Unstable Ground : Arctic Regeneration and RewildingDovberg, Ludvig January 2023 (has links)
This thesis investigates the characteristics of the Arctic region in terms of climate change, biodiversity, culture and exploiting human action. Is the 21st centurythe era where we reconcile between nature and societal development demands? Here it is questioning if we as humans have a responsibility to design for us, yet also for animals with equal value. Nonetheless, the animals that have been pushed towards ecological displacement have a significant important role on our earth and especially in the Arctic - to sustain balance in ecosystems and to protect the terrestrial carbon sinks. The thesis investigates if rewilding as a strategy can be used to reconcile that very conflict through four theoretical lenses: Tsing’s theory on friction, Bratton’s theory on automation, Ghosh theory on narrative and Latour’s theory on hybrids. In short, the project landed in a dual functional fauna bridge with a research centre intended for rewilding. This means that a bridge over a railway and a highway will be designed as a natural transition for animals to cross over, but also it will be inhabited by researchers and NGOs in which creates a node for knowledge exchanges between the users of the bridge and reindeer husbandry practitioners.
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Measuring indicators of progress for Rewilding policy in the German Oder Delta – Mecklenburg Vorpommern.Robaglia, Bérénice Antoinette Robaglia January 2022 (has links)
Rewilding theory appeared 20 years ago as a new conservation narrative based on the regula- tory roles of large predators and the importance to protect core reserves and their connectivity to maintain the resilience and complexity of core ecosystems (Perino et al., 2019). In Europe, despite a growing popularity, rewilding remains very criticized, due to a still non-understood concept (Torres et al. 2018). Assessing rewilding is crucial to overcoming conflicts and oppo- sition, and maximizing its benefits. Yet, such a process is complex and resource-demanding (Mata et al., 2018). In this thesis, we spatially assessed indicators of rewilding progress in the German Oder Delta (GOD), a site that joined Rewilding Europe Network (REN) in 2012. Those indicators include connectivity between three land cover types (Arable lands, Vegetation coverage and Water bodies), analysis of land use changes and assessment of iconic species population changes for the years 2006, 2012 and 2018. We addressed the question “How much did the 2012 rewilding policy in the German Oder Delta impact the return of iconic species?”. The connectivity between the different types of animal’s habitats is measured based on evalu- ating the evolution of landscape fragmentation in the area. Through gathering and analyzing land fragmentation data for the years 2006, 2012 and 2018, we found that the level of land- scape fragmentation between the same land types has not changed in the GOD after 2012. The overall connectivity between water bodies was found to be higher in the GOD than in MV and the connectivity between arable lands higher in MV than in the GOD. Surfaces and patches dedicated to water have increased between 2006 and 2012 in the GOD, which coincides with rewetting programs implemented in the region since the late 1990s. Moreover, the land use change in the GOD between 2006 and 2018 especially happened be- tween urban fabric to pasture and from pasture to inland marshes. Eventually, observation of iconic species including the White-Tailed Eagle, the Grey Seal, the Bison and the Beaver has continuously increased since 2006 in the region. From a large-scale perspective, it is hard to conclude rewilding policy’s success. We can however suggest that the combination of rewilding with conservation programs seems to have contributed to increasing the population of some iconic species as well as water bodies' sur- faces.
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Impacts of flood-mediated disturbance on species of High Nature Value farmlandKasoar, Timothy January 2019 (has links)
High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) refers to traditional agricultural landscapes which support high levels of biodiversity. HNVf is declining across Europe, through both intensification and abandonment, raising concerns about the conservation of species associated with it. One argument is that such HNV species are better described as being dependent on disturbance, and that management practices on HNVf mimics the effects of natural disturbance processes such as herbivory, fire, severe weather and flooding, which are often suppressed across much of Europe. If true, one innovative approach for conserving HNV species would be to restore natural 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 flooding in downstream urban areas, improve water quality, and increase the amenity value of rivers. I carried out four linked studies. Each followed a broadly similar approach: I selected sampling locations both in floodplain areas and comparable surrounding farmland, I surveyed birds and butterflies as indicator taxa of biodiversity, I carried out habitat mapping, and I estimated disturbance through both field measurements and remotely sensed data. My first study was around the Pripyat river in Ukraine, which has a large floodplain that has had minimal human intervention. I found that several, but not all, HNV species had higher population densities in the floodplain than in the surrounding HNV farmland, and several more had approximately equal population densities in the two habitats. This suggested intact flood regimes can retain some species that are elsewhere restricted to HNVf. My second study was around the river Rhône, France, where a restoration project has increased flow in floodplain channels and improved their connectivity with the main channel. I compared restored and non-restored segments of floodplain channel, as well as farmland and other habitats. While I found significant differences in population densitiesbetween habitat types, few species showed significant differences between restored and non-restored segments, suggesting that restoration had only limited ecological impacts on the wider landscape. My third study investigated a more ambitious restoration project which has reconnected a large area of floodplain to the river Peene in Germany. I found many HNV species had equal or higher population densities in the restored floodplain than in the surrounding unrestored farmland. This demonstrates that it is possible to restore the effect of natural flood disturbance on habitats and species. However, not all HNV species benefitted from flood-disturbed habitats, so clearly other conservation interventions need to be considered. For the final study, pooling data from all three sites I looked for associations between species' traits and environmental variables. My aim was to identify traits which predict species' responses to the environment, and hence which species are most likely to benefit from restoration. However, I did not find any significant associations in my data. In conclusion, I demonstrated that flood-disturbed habitats are suitable for many species traditionally associated with HNV farmland, and further that restoring flood disturbance processes can recreate those habitats. As such, reconnecting rivers and restoring floodplains would be a useful conservation intervention for species threatened by the abandonment or intensification of HNV farmland in Europe. However, other species did not benefit, and require other conservation interventions, perhaps other forms of rewilding, or continued incentivisation of favourable farming practices.
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Possibilities for, and attitudes towards, a potential reintroduction of wild forest reindeer Rangifer tarandus fennicus Lönn. to parts of Sweden.Draiby, Draiby January 2011 (has links)
Abstract The wild forest reindeer is a subspecies of the reindeer. Wild forest reindeer earlier had a wide distribution range in Sweden, but it was extinct in the middle of the 19:th century because of extensive hunting. In Finland, the w.f.reindeer was extinct a few decades later by similar reasons. Later they migrated back to the eastern parts of Finland in the middle of the 20: th century. Around 1980, the w.f.reindeer was actively rentroduced to western Finland, and there the population has had a positive development. In eastern Finland though, the population have declined fast during the last years. This is partly due to an increased abundance of large predators, particularly wolf. In this study I investigated the possibilities for, and attitudes towards, a reintroduction of w.f.reindeer in parts of Sweden. My result indicates that the environmental possibilities for a reintroduction of w.f. reindeer to parts of Sweden probably are fairly good to good. The attitudes towards the w.f.reindeer is both positive and negative, much depending if you ask a hunter or an owner of semi-domestic reindeer. Many persons in my study can see several benefits with a reintroduction of w.f. reindeer, e.g. increase of hunting and recreational value of the nature. A problem that a reintroduction of w.f.reindeer in Sweden could cause, is that the w.f.reindeer can be mixed with the herds of semi-domestic reindeer. Experiences from Finland show that the reindeermanagement is disturbed when this happens. This is an important problem, or challenge, to solve if a reintroduction should be possible in the future.
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Water Talks : Rewilding craft: restoring relationship through making objects entangled with place / Till KällanSundström, Elin January 2021 (has links)
On the brink of a sixth mass extinction, I renegotiate, through crafting, some basic assumptions on which our economy-culture is built, those of separation and dominance. The project Till Källan / Water Talks is based on a method where I ask various places what they would want me to do on site. It is a process of reconnecting to place and the non-human, a radical rethinking of relationship between human and the other. I investigate the possibilities of craft to be a conductor of that relationship.The paper tracks various lines of thought around my practice, like trickles gathering more water into my pond. It starts in a quantum physics philosophical base for how the world is in a state of becoming through intra-action, on to why water is the perfect medium to affect the world through a puddle. I look at how my practice has an affinity with animism as philosophy and indigenous ways of relating to place and materials. I explore various facets of performativity, in world-making, craft-making, in the resulting objects and in the restoring of relationship through ritual. The enquiry that runs through the paper is what craft is when the object was made for a place rather than for the “art-world” or other economic systems. Going back and forth between a western and a non-western mindset, between practice and theory and between the poetic and prosaic, makes for a synthesizing of sources, leading up to the concept of Rewilding Craft, and a number of crafted objects and images that speak of the relationship.
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REINFERA / REINFERALundevall Svarstad, Belinda January 2021 (has links)
Under kandidatarbetet tilldelades man en plats på landsbygden där en ny typ av folketshus skulle ta form. Uppgiften blev att formge en hybridstruktur mellan det mer traditionella folkets hus och en produktion anpassad till platsen och dess förutsättningar. Den tilldelade marken var ett naturreservat, placerad utanför Järna i Södertälje. Området präglades av stora fält av monokultur, en obrukad mjölkgård och ett högaktivt campingområde. Förslaget baseras på tanken om en avvecklad monokultur där skogen får hjälp på traven att återta sin förlorade rymd. Med hjälp utav ett Rewildingprojekt där olika betesdjur som älg, ko och vildsvin betar och bökar marken kommer platsen sakta återgå till vildmark. Projektet bygger på ett koncept där områdets känsliga naturmiljö står i det första rummet. Strukturer, aktiviteter och verksamheter som appliceras på platsen bör därför oavkortat tillföra något till rekreationen av den utdränerade marken i reservatet. Denna nya folkets hus föreslås därför bli ett hybridprogram mellan det som mer traditionellt sätt ses som folketshus och ett andligt rum, frikopplat från religion, där en ny typ av dödsomsorg introduceras på svensk mark. Den obrukade mjölkgården på Farstanäs naturreservat blir mål för den nya verksamheten där både mänskliga och animaliska kvarlevor omvandlas till näringsrik gödsel som oavkortat sprids över den utdränerade marken. Genom att jorda kvarlevorna av nära och kära i sakramentala silos på gården kommer de genom en komposteringsprocess kunna bli en del av naturen i reservatet. Det blir ett sätt för människan att ge tillbaka till naturen, samtidigt som man kan finna sin sista vila inbäddad bland trädens trygga kronor. Det mer traditionella folketshus-delen av hybridprogrammet adderar liv till platsen där scener och publika arbetsytor flätas samman med den mer allvarsamma sorgeakten som annars hade kännetecknat området och komposteringen. / The project was built on a mandatory idea of a new rural civic house where the people and a manufacturing process would share a common ground. The assigned ground for was a nature reserve placed in the outside of Järna in Södertälje (Sweden). The area is today characterized by big fields of monoculture, an unused dairy-farm, and a highly active camping site. The proposal is built on the idea of a phased-out monoculture, where the forest will take back it´s lost ground through a Rewilding project. Grazing animals of different types will beet and root the land back to wilderness. The proposed project is built on a concept where the recreation of vulnerable habitat is the highest priority. Therefore, every structure, activity or business which is applied on the land should contribute to the recreation of the damaged land. The new civic house is therefore proposed to be a hybrid between the typical civic house and a new spiritual space, disconnected from religion, where a new death care is introduced on Swedish ground. The unused dairy-farm on the given land will transform to the new business where human and animalic remains will convert to nutrient soil, which will be spread over the damages land in the nature reserve. The bodies of the loved ones will be placed in sacramental silos on the farm where they, through a compost process, will be united with the wilderness of the reserve. The more typical civic house will play it’s roll in the program by adding life to the area where staged and public workspaces intertwine with the more serious funeral ceremony in the silos.
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Att återskapa Eden : En ekoteologisk analys av den miljövetenskapliga strategin / Recreating Eden : An ecotheological analysis of the environmental science strategy rewildingUlvekrans, Anders January 2024 (has links)
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Born To Be Wild: Tiger Persecution and Advocacy From 1800 to the PresentNorris, Katheryn Malcolm 07 July 2005 (has links)
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 tiger conservation efforts focus on reintroducing formerly captive tigers to designated protected wild areas.
Re-wilding and reintroduction programs teach survival skills to tiger cubs raised in zoo collections. Merging in situ and ex situ research collaborations is the twenty-first century’s interdisciplinary answer to the tiger’s plight in the wild. The zoo is viewed in terms of its role as an institution that represents societal values that shift in concurrence with shifting paradigms.
This thesis studies the human-tiger relationship and analyzes three defining periods that occurred between 1800 and the present. The first period occurred during the nineteenth century, the second took place from the early through the late twentieth century and the third picked up where the second left off and is the one we are presently engaged in. The tiger is investigated in two different ways throughout — for its importance in human history and culture conceptually, and in the biological sense in terms of its importance as umbrella species within its own ecosystem. / Master of Science
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