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Many things happen in nature reserves that are contradictory at first glance. For example, flower meadows are mown down during maintenance work, even though all the plants growing there are protected. Elsewhere, protected reed beds are burnt down in a fen or the top layer of soil is removed with bulldozers in a dune conservation area. Still other areas are to remain completely untouched by human intervention. The author Klaus-Dieter Hupke shows the different strategies of nature conservation. He also shows that nature conservation is mostly not exactly what the term says in essence: "protection of nature". On the contrary, in Central Europe nature conservation areas are predominantly the relics of old agricultural and thus cultural landscapes. Often, aesthetic aspects of a landscape section are also in the foreground when designating it as a natural monument or nature reserve. Moreover, nature conservation runs the risk of becoming a substitute action and an alibi for a still growing destruction of traditional and near-natural landscape systems in Central Europe as well as globally.
The updated second edition now explicitly includes the consequences of climate change for nature conservation and has also incorporated a stronger reference to Austria as well as to the central Alpine region in some places for the relevant readers.
Preface
Introduction
What Is Nature for Us?
Why Nature Conservation?
Historical Development of the Concept of Nature Conservation
On the Diversity and Change of Ethical Justifications for Nature Conservation
Why Nature Conservation Has the Worse Cards Compared to Environmental Protection and Animal Welfare
Nature Conservation On Which Areas?
Extreme Locations Shunned by Industry, Preferred by Nature Conservation?
Confusing Diversity Area Categories of Nature and Landscape Protection—Nature Reserves, National Parks, Natural Monuments, Landscape Conservation Areas, Nature Parks
Which Nature Do We Want to Protect and How?
The Construction of Natural Equilibria Ideal Starting Point of the Demand for Nature Conservation
Help for Endangered Species? Red Lists and Endangerment Categories
Of Birds and of Butterflies How Nature Conservation Distributes Its Sympathies
What Endangers Nature?
“Outlaws” and “Helpers” The Players in Nature Conservation
Nature that Does not Deserve Protection Spontaneous Vegetation, Ruderal Communities, Neophytes and Neozoa
An Inventory
Process Protection as an Alternative and a Silver Bullet?
Change of Scenery
Nature Where no One Expects it In the City
Military Terrain A Natural Idyll?
Second-Hand Nature Renaturation of Quarries and Opencast Mines
Is Nature Only Intact if all Species Increase Equally?
Nature Conservation is Quite Successful The Example of Large Animal Species
Habitats for Land Conservation in Central Europe
Forest Ecosystems
Meagre Grassland
Meadows and Pastures
Moore
Still Waters and Water Banks
High Mountain Ecosystems
Wadden Sea
Small Biotopes and Their Importance for Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
Geological Landscape Objects in Nature Conservation
River Straightening Versus River Restoration
Nature Conservation in the Forest Natural Forest—Permanent Forest—Clear-Cutting?
Agricultural Accompanying Programmes of Nature Conservation in Germany
Field Margin and Flowering Strip Programmes
Set-Aside and Extensification Programmes
Meadow Breeding Programs
Europe is also Getting Involved German Federal Conservation Act, FFH and Natura
On the Role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nature Conservation
The Silverware of the GDR? Nature Conservation and Conservationists in the Eastern Federal States
The World’s Oceans and Antarctica International, Therefore Defenceless?
How Is Nature Protected Outside Europe?
The Example of the USA
Brazil as an Example of an Emerging Latin American Country
African Countries
India
Nature Conservation in the Third World A Pillar of Neocolonialism?
Nature Disappears, Nature Conservation Comes? On the Alibi Function of Nature Conservation and Nature-Protected Areas
Nature Conservation in Times of Climate Change
Hikers, Cyclists, Motorists How Leisure Modalities Shape Our View of Nature
Man and Nature A Constructed Opposition?
Search for Ideas How Can Nature Conservation Be Justified and Anchored in Society?
Nature Conservation Versus Zeitgeist?
The Benefits of Diversity Reality, Poetry or Esotericism?
On the Future of Nature Conservation
Follow-Up Nature Conservation Expertise Is Everyone’s Business!
References
Index