To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Conservation & Biodiversity  Conservation & Biodiversity: General

Rambunctious Garden Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

Out of Print
By: Emma Marris(Author)
210 pages, no illustrations
Rambunctious Garden
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Rambunctious Garden ISBN: 9781608194544 Paperback Dec 2013 Out of Print #203770
  • Rambunctious Garden ISBN: 9781608190324 Hardback Oct 2011 Out of Print #187626
About this book Related titles

About this book

A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management.

In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems.

Rambunctious Garden is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us.

Customer Reviews

Out of Print
By: Emma Marris(Author)
210 pages, no illustrations
Media reviews

"In her remarkable new book The Rambunctious Garden, Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively."
Wall Street Journal

"Potentially the most optimistic and controversial work about the future of nature to appear in years."
– Grist.org

"Ms Marris's book is an insightful analysis of the thinking that informs nature conservation."
The Economist

"What may be the most important book about the environment in a generation."
Idaho Statesman

"Marris is a whip-smart writer [...] already being compared to the greatest environmental writers and thinkers of the past century, Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold."
San Francisco Chronicle

Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides