Managing Scotland's Environment / / Charles Warren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Warren, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.) :; 32 B/W halftones 52 B/W line art

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748613137);Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and birds of prey, the place of forestry, and the control of alien species and red deer - and takes up the challenge of integrating conservation with social and economic objectives. The second edition includes a new chapter on energy and the environment, taking in the highest profile environmental issue in Scotland at present: the windfarm controversy, and debates about the appropriate energy mix for the future. There is also a heightened focus throughout on climate change and its implications for the management of Scotland's environment. In addition, the book has been updated throughout to take account of recent changes in environmental and related social and political issues.Key Featuresintegrated, up-to-date and in-depth treatment of all the main debates about the Scottish environmentexamines the ethical issues behind environmental decision-makingaccessibly written for the non-specialistbalanced, even-handed treatment of the issues"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Expanded contents list -- List of figures -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Foreword: Professor Chris Smout -- Part One. The nature and control of the land -- Chapter 1. The shaping of Scotland’s environment -- Chapter 2. The political and planning context -- Part Two. The pieces of the jigsaw -- Chapter 3. The land: who should own Scotland? -- Chapter 4. The trees: forest management -- Chapter 5. The fields: agriculture and crofting -- Chapter 6. The waters: freshwater resource management -- Chapter 7. The animals: wildlife management -- Chapter 8. The ‘natural’: conservation management -- Part Three. Interactions and controversies -- Chapter 9. Public access and recreation: whose rights and whose responsibility? -- Chapter 10. Natives, aliens and reintroductions: what species where? -- Chapter 11. Integrating forestry: deer in woodlands, and trees on farms -- Chapter 12. Powering Scotland: windfarms and the energy debate -- Part Four. Thinking and deciding about the environment -- Chapter 13. Environmental ethics and decision-making -- Part Five. Conclusion -- Chapter 14. Environmental management in twenty-first-century Scotland -- References -- Index