Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics

By Jamie Lorimer, C. Sandom, P. Jepson, Christopher E. Doughty, Maan Barua, K. Kirby. 2015

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Rewilding is being promoted as an ambitious alternative to current approaches to nature conservation. Interest is growing in popular and scientific literatures, and rewilding is the subject of significant comment and debate, outstripping scientific research and conservation practice. Projects and research are found the world over, with concentrations in Europe, North America, and on tropical islands. A common aim is to maintain, or increase, biodiversity, while reducing the impact of present and past human interventions through the restoration of species and ecological processes. The term rewilding has been applied to diverse concepts and practices. We review the historical emergence of the term and its various overlapping meanings, aims, and approaches, and illustrate this through a description of four flagship rewilding case studies. The science of rewilding has centered on three different historical baselines: the Pleistocene, the Holocene, and novel contemporary ecosystems. The choice of baseline has ...

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, background): “These efforts are often listed under the rubric of “rewilding” (Lorimer et al. 2015; Svenning et al. 2016).”
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability (2020, background): “Where ecosystems have been degraded (Jackson et al., 2001), investing in their rehabilitation and transformation can in many cases pay substantial dividends (Lorimer et al., 2015; Pringle, 2017).”