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Nature Conservation: A Critical Introduction

by Klaus-Dieter Hupke
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783662661581
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer Spektrum
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer Spektrum
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 420
  • Original Price: EUR 74.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 501 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Environmental Conservation & Protection

Many things happen in nature reserves that are contradictory at first glance. For example, flower meadows are mown down during maintenance work, even though all the plants growing there are protected. Elsewhere, protected reed beds are burnt down in a fen or the top layer of soil is removed with bulldozers in a dune conservation area. Still other areas are to remain completely untouched by human intervention. The author Klaus-Dieter Hupke shows the different strategies of nature conservation. He also shows that nature conservation is mostly not exactly what the term says in essence: "protection of nature". On the contrary, in Central Europe nature conservation areas are predominantly the relics of old agricultural and thus cultural landscapes. Often, aesthetic aspects of a landscape section are also in the foreground when designating it as a natural monument or nature reserve. Moreover, nature conservation runs the risk of becoming a substitute action and an alibi for a still growing destruction of traditional and near-natural landscape systems in Central Europe as well as globally.
The updated second edition now explicitly includes the consequences of climate change for nature conservation and has also incorporated a stronger reference to Austria as well as to the central Alpine region in some places for the relevant readers.

Prof. Dr Klaus-Dieter Hupke is a lecturer in geography at Heidelberg University of Education.

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