Rethinking park protection : treading the uncommon ground of environmental beliefs /

• Main Author: La Page, Will, 1935- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: National parks and reserves > Conservation and restoration.; National parks and reserves > Management.; Parks > Conservation and restoration.; Parks > Management.; Environmental policy.; Environmental protection.; Environmental protection > Philosophy.; Belief and doubt > Social aspects.; Belief and doubt > Political aspects.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Land Resources.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Beliefs.; Conservation areas.; Environmental management.; National parks.; Parks.; Sustainability.
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This book proposes answers to the question of why parks are failing their mandate to be preserved undiminished for future generations. Those answers are deeply embedded in one word: belief. The book provides a practical guide for preparing park managers for a new era where the beliefs that created p...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Why Science is Failing our Parks
• Preface: A Call to Action
• The Ecology of Belief: It's all in the Connections
• The Power and Theory of Belief: The Real Limits of Preservation
• The Ecology, Energy, and Dynamics of Belief
• Norms, Ethics, and Beliefs in Our Parks
• Organizational Beliefs: From Visionary to Functionary
• Beliefs, as Values, Possessions, and Lenses
• Credibility, Authenticity, Believability, and Park Maintenance
• Patterns of Thinking: Structures of Believing
• The Nesting Habits of Beliefs: and the Belief Tree
• The Symbolism of Beliefs: Signs, Symbols, Icons, and Omens
• This I Believe: Discovering Your Belief System
• Belief Bites: Truisms, Metaphors, Aphorisms, and the Wisdom of the Ages
• Beliefs as Environmental Super Highways and Roadblocks
• Belief-Based Science and Research Methods
• From Beliefs to Science and Back Again
• The Politics of Belief: Park Wildlife as a Case Study
• Environmental Beliefs as Spiritual, Sacred, and Religious
• Toward Environmental Sanity through the Ecology of Belief
• Parks as Belief: Making Peace with Paradox.