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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Ark and beyond. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018 (DLC) 2017042866 (OCoLC)1003854885 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George B Rabb; Ben A Minteer; Jane Maienschein; James P Collins |
ISBN: | 9780226538631 022653863X |
OCLC Number: | 1028804106 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles |
Contents: | Protoconservation in early European zoos. Animals in circulation : the "prehistory" of modern zoos / Anita Guerrini and Michael A. Osborne -- The world as zoo : acclimatization in the nineteenth century / Harriet Ritvo -- The rise of US zoo and aquarium conservation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Historic and cultural foundations of zoo conservation : a narrative timeline / Vernon N. Kisling Jr. -- Teetering on the brink of extinction : the passenger pigeon, the bison, and American zoo culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Mark V. Barrow Jr. -- American zoos : a shifting balance between recreation and conservation / Pamela M. Henson -- (Re)introducing the Przewalski's horse / Nigel Rothfels -- Conservation constellations : aquariums in aquatic conservation networks / Samantha Muka -- Zoo and aquarium conservation today : visions and programs. Committing to conservation : can zoos and aquariums deliver on their promise? / Rick Barongi -- Saving Animals from Extinction (SAFE) : unifying the conservation approach of AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums / Shelly Grow, Debborah Luke, and Jackie Ogden -- Integrating ex situ management options as part of a one plan approach to species conservation / Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Kristin Leus, and Onnie Byers -- Zoos and gorilla conservation : have we moved beyond a piecemeal approach? / Kristen E. Lukas and Tara S. Stoinski -- Lessons from thirty-one years at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and reflections on aquariums' expanding role in conservation action / Margaret Spring -- The Phoenix Zoo story : building a legacy of conservation / Ruth A. Allard and Stuart A. Wells -- Caring for nature : welfare, wellness, and natural connections. Bears or butterflies? : how should zoos make value-driven decisions about their collections? / Clare Palmer, T.J. Kasperbauer, and Peter Sandøe -- Why zoos have animals : exploring the complex pathway from experiencing animals to pro-environmental behaviors / Alejandro Grajal, Jerry F. Luebke, and Lisa-Anne DeGregoria Kelly -- People in the zoo : a social context for conservation / Susan Clayton and Khoa D. Le Nguyen -- From sad zoo to happy zoo : the changing animal welfare and conservation priorities of the Seoul Zoo in South Korea / Anne S. Clay -- Wildlife wellness : a new ethical frontier for zoos and aquariums / Terry L. Maple and Valerie D. Segura -- Zoos and sustainability : can zoos go beyond ethical individualism to protect resilient systems? / Bryan G. Norton -- Opportunities and challenges for conserving small populations : an emerging role for zoos in genetic rescue / Oliver A. Ryder -- Cloning in the zoo : when zoos become parents / Carrie Friese -- Advancing laboratory-based zoo research to enhance captive breeding of southern white rhinoceros / Christopher W. Tubbs -- dt Beyond the walls : applied field research for the twenty-first-century public aquarium and zoo / Charles R. Knapp -- Frogs in glass boxes : responses of zoos to global amphibian extinctions / Joseph R. Mendelson III -- Alternative models and futures. Sustaining wildlife populations in human care : an existential value proposition for zoos / Steven L. Monfort and Catherine A. Christen -- Reflections on zoos and aquariums and the role of the regional biopark / Craig Ivanyi and Debra Colodner -- Today's awe-inspiring design, tomorrow's Plexiglas dinosaur : how public aquariums contradict their conservation mandate in pursuit of immersive underwater displays / Stefan Linquist -- Zoo conservation disembarks : stepping off the ark and into global sustainable development / Adrián Cerezo and Kelly E. Kapsar -- Rewilding the lifeboats / Harry W. Greene -- The parallax zoo / Ben A. Minteer. |
Series Title: | Convening science. |
Responsibility: | edited by Ben A. Minteer, Jane Maienschein, James P. Collins ; foreword by George Rabb. |
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"The role of zoos and aquariums is constantly evolving, particularly as there is pressure to increase their contribution to conservation. This collection ably shows that zoos and aquariums are not a flotilla of little arks that have to be self-sufficient. Rather, we should be better grounded in the social fabric of our communities, better networked, and better connected to the animals outside our walls."--Jenny Gray, CEO of Zoos Victoria, Australia, and president of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums "In an age of extinction, 'wild' places are increasingly being managed like zoos. What role do actual zoos and aquariums have to play? The Ark and Beyond looks at this question from all angles; the result is both informative and thought-provoking."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" "The Ark and Beyond is essential reading for anyone interested in our tangled and evolving relationship with zoos and aquariums. At the zoo we find ourselves at the shifting borderland between the wild and the walled. This book's editors and contributors explore that territory, bringing together decades of practical and theoretical expertise in conservation biology, history, and education. Their insights will deeply inform and benefit readers wrestling with the complex questions we find ourselves asking when we lock eyes with our kindred creatures."--Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation & Center for Humans and Nature Read more...

