Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change [PDF]
, 2020 Large-bodied mammalian herbivores can influence processes that exacerbate or mitigate climate change. Herbivore impacts are, in turn, influenced by predators that place top-down forcing on prey species within a given body size range. Here, we explore how
Bond WJ +12 more
core +1 more source
Current and future opportunities for satellite remote sensing to inform rewilding
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Rewilding has been suggested as an effective strategy for addressing environmental challenges such as the intertwined biodiversity and climate change crises, but there is little information to guide the monitoring of rewilding projects.
Nathalie Pettorelli +1 more
doaj +1 more source
What next? Rewilding as a radical future for the British countryside [PDF]
, 2015 Rewilding is an optimistic environmental agenda to reverse the loss of biodiversity and reconnect society with nature. This chapter explores Britain’s ecological history, back to the Last Interglacial before the arrival of modern humans, when the climate
Macdonald, David W +1 more
core +1 more source
Le rewilding pour tendre vers la pleine naturalité
Revue Forestière Française, 2022 Au cours du réchauffement holocène, la dynamique forestière est affectée par l’absence de la mégafaune éliminée au Pléistocène. Plus tard, la déforestation d’origine anthropique atteint son apogée en France au XIXe siècle. Avec l’exode rural, des forêts
Gilles Rayé
doaj +1 more source
Rewilding in megacities: from concept to implementation
RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2023 The expansion of urban agglomerations and the accompanying increase in the severity of environmental problems require special attention to ensure a comfortable urban environment.
Leonid Yu. Fedorchenko +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Emerging Urban Forests: Opportunities for Promoting the Wild Side of the Urban Green Infrastructure [PDF]
, 2019 Many cities aim to increase urban forest cover to benefit residents through the provision of ecosystem services and to promote biodiversity. As a complement to traditional forest plantings, we address opportunities associated with “emerging urban forests”
Buchholz, Sascha +5 more
core +1 more source
Towards a holistic approach to rewilding in cultural landscapes
People and Nature, 2023 In recent years, rewilding has been attracting growing attention as novel, process‐oriented concept supporting ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation.
Julian R. Massenberg +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Abandoning or Reimagining a Cultural Heartland? Understanding and Responding to Rewilding Conflicts in Wales – the case of the Cambrian Wildwood. [PDF]
, 2018 This paper is about rewilding and the tensions it involves. Rewilding is a relatively novel approach to nature conservation, which seeks to be proactive and ambitious in the face of continuing environmental decline.
Holmes, G, Strouts, G, Wynne-Jones, S
core +2 more sources
Mapping opportunities and challenges for rewilding in Europe [PDF]
, 2015 Farmland abandonment takes place across the world due to socio-economic and ecological drivers. In Europe agricultural and environmental policies aim to prevent abandonment and halt ecological succession.
Alcamo J +18 more
core +7 more sources
Rewilding – Departures in Conservation Policy and Practice? an Evaluation of Developments in Britain
Conservation & Society, 2020 Rewilding has been hailed as ‘radical’ and ‘agenda-setting’ in the challenge it poses to mainstream conservation. This paper questions whether that is still the case, or if rewilding is now being mainstreamed and with what consequences?
Sophie Wynne-Jones +3 more
doaj +1 more source