Sally Hawkins is an environmental social scientist at the University of Cumbria, UK. She is a core member of the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group and a founding trustee of the Lifescape Project.Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria, co-chairs the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group, and is chair of IUCN CEM Western Europe.Steve Carver is Director of the Wildland Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK, and Co-Chair of the IUCN CEM Rewilding Thematic Group.Rene L. Beyers is a Research Associate in the Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

'Over the course of three to four decades, rewilding has progressed from a rather obscure concept associated with radical environmentalism to a well-accepted and even mainstream paradigm for comprehensive ecosystem restoration worldwide. This handbook, edited by four founding members of the IUCN Rewilding Thematic Group, is a much-needed overview of the history, theory, practice, and debate surrounding rewilding.'Reed F. Noss, Ph.D., Florida Institute for Conservation Science, Conservation Science, Inc. 'A much-needed source of information and inspiration for the growing community of people working to help Nature heal, the Routledge Handbook of Rewilding teaches us how to restore missing species, including large carnivores and other keystone species; reconnect wildlife habitats; expand wilderness and parks; and coexist with all our neighbours, wild and human. "Rewilding" has taken root and ramified widely in the decades since North American wilderness champions coined the term; and this book - which will challenge as well as motivate all readers - shows how the varying branches of work can rewild lands and waters from Scotland to Argentina, from Australia to the Yukon.'John Davis, Executive Director, The Rewilding Institute (rewilding.org)'With only 2-3% of land and sea functionally intact, rewilding is as necessary as it is exciting, and presents us with the opportunity to both address the past and current damage done by human "development" as well as to create a new relationship between ourselves and nature. This book comes at a pivotal time, framing the history, practice, practitioners and promise of the rewilding work that is essential to addressing the twin crises of climate breakdown and the extinction emergency. Rewilding is a pathway to a new and hopeful future.'Magnus Sylvén, Co-Director, Global Rewilding Alliance (GRA) and Vance G. Martin, WILD Foundation; GRA; Wilderness Specialist Group (IUCN/WCPA) 'This book provides rich and diverse contribution to our understanding of the theory, principles and practical application of rewilding from around the world.'Rebecca Wrigley, Rewilding Britain

• SECTION 1 THE EVOLUTION OF REWILDING Introduction: What is rewilding?Sally Hawkins, Rene Beyers, Steve Carver and Ian Convery The emergence of rewilding in North America Mark Fisher and Steve Carver The emergence of rewilding in EuropeAlexandra Locquet and Steve Carver Ecological restoration and rewilding: Integrating communities of practice to achieve common goalsCara R. Nelson Developing a framework for rewilding based on its social-ecological aimsSally Hawkins SECTION 2 THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF REWILDING Trophic cascades as a basis for rewildingT.J. Clark-Wolf and Mark Hebblewhite Species translocations, taxon replacements, and rewildingMark Stanley-Price Cores and corridors: Natural landscape linkages to rewild protected areas and wildlife refugesJonathan Carruthers-Jones, Andrew Gregory and Adrien Guette Mapping wildness and opportunities for rewildingSteve Carver Measuring success in rewilding: Ecological overviewRené Beyers and Antony R.E. Sinclair Measuring success in rewilding? Coping with socio-ecological uncertainties in rewilding projectsMeredith Root-Bernstein Rewilding ‘knowledges’: Blending science and Indigenous knowledge systemsLisa Fenton and Zoe Playdon Rewilding: A legal perspectiveAdam Eagle, Alex Cooper, Rob Espin, Jack Gould and Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby SECTION 3 APPLICATION AND IMPACTS OF REWILDING Rewilding case study: Yellowstone to YukonJodi Hilty, Charles Chester and Pamela Wright Rewilding case study: Carrifran WildwoodStuart Adair and Philip Ashmole Rewilding case study: Going wild in Argentina, a multidisciplinary and multispecies reintroduction programme to restore ecological functionality Emiliano Donadio, Talía Zamboni and Sebastián Di Martino Rewilding case study: Gorongosa National Park, MozambiqueRob Pringle and Dominique Gonçalves Rewilding case study: Restoring Western Australia’s rangelands: Mutawa/Kurrara KurraraIan Kealley and Neil Burrows Rewilding case study: Forest restoration: conservation outcomes and lessons from Terai Arc Landscape, NepalAnanta Ram Bhandari and Shiv Raj Bhatta Rewilding case study: Monitoring natural capital and rewilding at the Natural Capital Laboratory, Birchfield, Loch NessChris White, Emilia Leese, Ian Convery, and Philip Rooney Eco-civilisation provides new opportunities for rewilding in ChinaYue Cao, Zhicong Zhao, Rui Yang, Steve Carver, and Ian Convery Restoring what we’ve lost: Lessons from evolutionary history for rewilding and coexisting in landscapes with predatorsJoanna E. Lambert and Joel Berger Rewilding and farming: Could the relationship be improved through adopting a three compartment approach to land use?Julia Aglionby and Hannah Field Unseen connections: The role of fungi in rewildingDavid Sattori and Matt Wainhouse Rewilding and human healthHeather VanVolkenburg, Rene Beyers, Cara Nelson, Liette Vasseur, Angela Andrade, Ian Convery and Steve Carver Rewilding, the wildlife trade, and human conflictRené Beyers and Sally Hawkins Rewilding children and young people: The role of education and schoolsHeather Prince Wild adventure: A restoryingChris Loynes SECTION 4 WILDER VALUES: THE ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF REWILDING Wilder values: The ethics and philosophy of rewildingKate Rawles (section editor) Rewilding from the inside out: A personal commitment to other animals and their homes during the Anthropause and afterwardsMarc Bekoff Rewilding and cultural transformation: Healing nature and reweaving humans back into the web of life.Peter Taylor, Alan Watson Featherstone, Simon Ayres, Adam Griffin and Eric Maddern Wild democracy: Ecodemocracy in rewildingHelen Kopnina, Simon Leadbeater, and Anja Heister Rewilding and the ethics of placeMartin Drenthen Knepp Wildland; the ethos and efficacy of Britain’s first private rewilding projectSimon Leadbeater, Helen Kopnina and Paul Cryer Human rewilding: Practical pointers to address a root cause of global environmental crisesGeorgina Maffey and Koen Arts