商品簡介
Wohes hold an almost mythical status in the cultural history of Europe and North America. For centuries, they have been the subject of fairy tales and other lore. embodying mystery, cunning, and sometimes threat. People are drawn to their beauty, intrigued by their behaviours. Yet for those who live in close proximity to wolves, coexisder fianght with many serious issues
Wolf management is an excellent model of human-nature interaction and the challenges that come along with it. A New Erafor Wolves and People analyzes the crucing Relationship between human ethics, attitudes, and policy and the man-movement of wolf populations in Europe and North America. The contributors to this volume asseri that these human dimensions affect wolf survival just as much, more, than the physical environment.
Contributors include recognized scientists and other wolf experts who introduce new and sometimes controversial findings. A New Erafor Wolves and People includes colour photographs of wild wolves by Peter A. Dettling, David C. Olson, and Robert J. Weselamann, and drawings by wildlife artist Susan Shimeld.
作者簡介
Marco Musiani, PhD, is an assistant professor of landscape ecology at the University of Calgary and is also affiliated with the University of Montana. He was Born in Rome, the city of the famous she-wolf, and has conducted research and published internationally on wolf management.
Luigiboitani is the head of the Department of Animal and Human Biology at the University of Rome, and a leading authority on wolves. He has conducted an extended series of research and conservation projects on the Italian wolf population, which has recovered dramatically in the last thirty years. He has authored more than two hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications and eight books.
Paul C. Paquet, PhD, is an adjunct professor with the Faculties of Biology and of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. Dr Paquet studied wolves for more thean thirty-five years, and is considered an author on carnivore ecology, with international research experience. He has publish more than a hundred peer-reviewed articles and was the founder and director the Central Rockies Wolf Project in Canmore, Alberta.
