BL4272 Rewilding and Restoration Ecology
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Despite the beauty and drama of its landscapes, Scotland is a nature-depleted nation. This ecological impoverishment, internalised in our science, policy and culture is, in part, a consequence of shifting baseline syndrome, where each generation assumes the nature they experienced in their youth to be normal and unwittingly accepts previous declines. Rewilding is an evolving process of nature recovery that leads to restored ecosystem health, function and completeness. How can Scotland rewild and move beyond protecting past natural baselines to restoring new and healthy wild places? This course will investigate this new rewilding agenda including reviewing Scotland’s biodiversity, and discussing human-wildlife conflict and ecological restoration. We will consider the meaning of the word “wild”, and discuss the political, regulatory, economic, scientific, ecological and social opportunities and constraints that affect attempts to conserve biodiversity in our changing world.
*Credits: 15*
Semester: 2†
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Coursework = 100%*
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