Animals count : how population size matters in animal-human relations / edited by Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley.

Animals count :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781351210645 (e-book : PDF)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (222 pages) : 34 illustrations.
Dizi
Routledge environmental humanities series
İçindekiler Notu
chapter 1 Why count animals? / NANCY CUSHING -- part Part I Excess -- chapter 2 Cane toads as sport: conservation practice and animal ethics at odds / LIBBY ROBIN -- chapter 3 Taking locust country / ANDREA GAYNOR -- chapter 4 On the ant frontier: ontological conflict with Iridomyrmex humilis in post-war Sydney / ADAM GALL -- chapter 5 A swarm of sheep: colonising the Esperance bioregion / NICOLE CHALMER -- part Part II Abundance -- chapter 6 Optimism unlimited: prospects for the pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer and trochus industries on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, 1860–1940 / ROHAN LLOYD -- chapter 7 Swamplands: human-animal relationships in place / EMILY O’GORMAN -- chapter 8 ‘Pain for Animals, Profit for People’: the campaign against live sheep exports, 1974–1986 / GONZALO VILLANUEVA -- part Part III Equilibrium -- chapter 9 “Cunning, intractable, destructive animals”: pigs as co-colonisers in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1840–1860 / NANCY CUSHING -- chapter 10 Wine worlds are animal worlds too: native Australian animal vine feeders and interspecies relations in the ecologies that host vineyards / JULIE MCINTYRE -- chapter 11 Defending nature: animals and militarised landscapes in Australia / BEN WILKIE -- part Part IV Scarcity -- chapter 12 A slow catastrophe? Fishing for sport and commerce in colonial Victoria / DAVID HARRIS -- chapter 13 The palatability of pests: redfin in the Murray-Darling Basin / JODI FRAWLEY -- part Part V Extinction -- chapter 14 After none: memorialising animal species extinction through monuments / DOLLY JØRGENSEN.
Özet, vb.
Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they become either enemies upon whom to declare war or victims to be protected. In this edited volume, leading and emerging scholars investigate for the first time the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely, how human perceptions of populations impact animals.This collection explores the fortunes of amphibians, mammals, insects and fish whose numbers have created concern in settler Australia and examines shifts in these populations between excess, abundance, equilibrium, scarcity and extinction. The book points to the importance of caution in future campaigns to manipulate animal populations, and demonstrates how approaches from the humanities can be deployed to bring fresh perspectives to understandings of how to live alongside other animals.
Konu
Animal populations __ Australia.
Human-animal relationships __ Australia.
Wildlife conservation __ Social aspects __ Australia.
Biodiversity & Conservation.
Biodiversity conservation.
Environmental History.
Human ecology __ History.
Human ecology.
HISTORY / Historical Geography. __ bisacsh
NATURE / Animals / General. __ bisacsh
Abundance.
Animal.
Australia.
Biodiversity.
Conservation.
Endangered.
Environment.
Equilibrium.
Excess.
Extinction.
History.
Human.
Intervention.
Plague.
Population.
Scarcity.
Swarm.
Wildlife.
Diğer Yazarlar
Kurum Adı
Taylor and Francis.
Veritabanı