@article{1454159,
      recid = {1454159},
      author = {Hupke, Klaus-Dieter,},
      title = {Nature conservation : a critical introduction /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)},
      abstract = {Many things happen in nature reserves that seem  contradictory at first glance. For example, flower meadows  are mown down during maintenance work, even though all the  plants growing there are protected. In a fen, protected  reed beds are burnt down and in a dune conservation area  the top layer of soil is removed with bulldozers. Other  areas, on the other hand, are to remain completely  untouched by human intervention. 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. The author Prof. Dr. habil. Klaus-Dieter Hupke has  a seat in Geography at the Heidelberg University of  Education. This book is a translation of an original German  edition. The translation was done with the help of  artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service  DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily  in terms of content, so that the book will be read  stylistically differently from a conventional translation.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1454159},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66159-8},
}