Coyote At the Kitchen Door - Living With Wildlife in Suburbia

Informationen zum Autor Stephen DeStefano is Research Professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Unit Leader of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Klappentext A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. He asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic. Zusammenfassung A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. He asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Preface * Prologue: Suburban Beginnings * The World's Neighborhoods * The Form Setter * Gradient in Time: A Brief History of Wildlife in America * Suburban Wildlife Encounters * Mixed Messages * The Suburban Jungle * A Trilogy of Tolerable Nuisances: Part I--Traffic * A Trilogy of Tolerable Nuisances: Parts II and III--Light and Noise * Home Ownership and Other Near-death Experiences * Living with People and Wildlife in Suburbia: A Short Story about a Small Moose * Coyote Spirits * A Suburban Land Ethic * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Destefano, DeStefano Stephen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2011
• EAN: 9780674060180
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06018-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Umweltschutz, Tierwelt: Sachbuch, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, NATURE / Animals / Mammals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Animals & society, Wildlife: general interest, Conservation of the environment, Animals and society, Urban communities, Wildlife: mammals: general interest