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Rewilding Iberia
Explorando el potencial de la renaturalización en España
25.00€
Rewilding represents a new viewpoint on nature conservation, reaching beyond to bring a more functional vision and moving into notions of rural development and reconnecting people with nature and wildness. The concept originated in North America in the nineties and has been growing and developing in Europe since 2010.
Rewilding Iberia aims to assist rewilding in its development from theory to practice in Spain and to help extend its application to the whole of the north Mediterranean basin. The book combines academic rigour with readability, offering a complete survey of the implications of rewilding as a tool to complement the current paradigm for nature conservation, improving also its contribution to rural development.
Text in Spanish
👉 Read the interview to Jordi Palau in the blog of Rewilding Europe
👉 Read the interview to Jordi Palau by True Nature Foundation
👉 More about Rewilding Iberia on the author’s blog
Rewilding represents a new viewpoint on nature conservation, reaching beyond to bring a more functional vision and moving into notions of rural development and reconnecting people with nature and wildness. The concept originated in North America in the nineties and has been growing and developing in Europe since 2010.
Rewilding Iberia aims to assist rewilding in its development from theory to practice in Spain and to help extend its application to the whole of the north Mediterranean basin. The book combines academic rigour with readability, offering a complete survey of the implications of rewilding as a tool to complement the current paradigm for nature conservation, improving also its contribution to rural development.
The book analyses the main natural processes that have been significantly altered by human activity and establishes the tenets of rewilding as a strategy for the active restoration of their function wherever possible. This is achieved by examining the origin and significance of this new perspective for conservation, by exploring its possibilities in the Spanish geographic context, and by analysing the factors affecting its application in a given area.
After discussing its allure and potential for Spain, the book describes the techniques and policies that might assist the development of rewilding, and develops some specific case studies that contribute to a better understanding of the impact and scope it could attain.
Features:
- 110 Photos
- 18 Tables
- 20 Illustrations
- 7 Maps
- 380 Bibiographical references
Read the following chapters:
Palabras de un colega conservacionista (Words from a conservacionist colleague)
Go to the contents| Weight | 1 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 16 × 23 cm |
| Language | Spanish |
| Product format | Paperback |
| Pages | 388 |
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| ISBN | 978-84-16728-25-1 |
| Published in | June 2020 |
| Published by | Lynx Edicions |
Jordi Palau is a Forest Engineer and has an MSc in Protected Area Management. He has contributed actively to the creation of the three protected areas that currently exist in Andorra, and in 1996 co-authored the book “Nature and Ecotourism in Andorra: an option for the future”.
He has worked as an advisor for private reserves, and has been the director of several nature parks and national game reserves, among them Alt Pirineu (High Pyrenees), the largest protected area in Catalonia (80,000 ha), and Boumort Reserve, where some rewilding actions have been tested. In those areas he has managed habitat and wildlife conservation, hunting, ecotourism and rural development. He has travelled all over the world visiting protected areas and rewilding projects in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas.
Jordi’s 20 years of experience in the field of protected area management and ecotourism have instilled in him a strong academic rigour alongside a heavy dose of realism, which will make his perspective especially interesting to readers, whether natural scientists, technicians, other professionals or nature lovers in general.
Illustrator:
Toni Llobet
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