Safe from the Wolf: Biosecurity, Biodiversity, and Competing Philosophies of Nature

Henry Buller
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Henry Buller: Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, England

Environment and Planning A, 2008, vol. 40, issue 7, 1583-1597

Abstract: By using the example of the reintroduction of wolves to the southern French Alps, this paper explores the competing ‘philosophies of nature’ that are revealed when agendas of biodiversity enhancement and protection conflict with notions of biosecurity. Tracing the shifting status of wolves as threat and hazard to emblems of reconstituted naturality, I argue that the reintroduction of wolves disturbs notions of both biodiversity and biosecurity, making unified strategies of management increasingly difficult and problematic. More significantly, the reintroduction of these classically ‘wild’ predators into seminatural and domesticated spaces challenges otherwise simplistic classifications not only of wild and domestic but also of human and nonhuman.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1068/a4055

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