This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory,
and current practices of rewilding.
Rewilding offers a transformational paradigm shift in conservation
thinking, and as such is increasingly of interest to academics,
policymakers, and practitioners. However, as a rapidly emerging area of
conservation, the term has often been defined and used in a variety of
different ways (both temporally and spatially). There is, therefore, the
need for a comprehensive assessment of this field, and the Routledge
Handbook of Rewilding fills this lacuna. The handbook is organised into
four sections to reflect key areas of rewilding theory, practice, and
debate: the evolution of rewilding, theoretical and practical
underpinnings, applications and impacts, and the ethics and philosophy
of rewilding. Drawing on a range of international case studies the
handbook addresses many of the key issues, including land acquisition
and longer-term planning, transitioning from restoration (human-led,
nature enabled) to rewilding (nature-led, human enabled), and the role
of political and social transformational change.
Led by an editorial team who have extensive experience researching and
practising rewilding, this handbook is essential reading for students,
academics and practitioners interested in rewilding, ecological
restoration, natural resource management and conservation.
