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...

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