NATURE'S KEEPERS: THE NEW SCIENCE OF NATURE MANAGEMENT. By Stephen Budiansky.

.# (1995) 1995 1st UK edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppx,310. B/w photograph plates, illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

.# "The ...conviction that nature is constant, eternal and self-regulating, except when man intrudes, is fundamentally wrong". The author sets out his views as to why, and what we should do about it, with much reference to American and British experience of countryside management in the last two centuries. Chapters include:- "Good poetry, bad science"; The cult of the wild; Nazis, planners, eugenicists, and other ecologists; Disorderly conduct; Footprints in the jungle; The science, but mostly politics, of "Natural Management"; Waiting for Newton; Bioeconomy; Reinventing the wild; Nature on human terms.