TY - JOUR

T1 - Urban Wilderness in Central Europe

T2 - Rewilding at the urban fringe

AU - Hofmeister, Sabine

AU - Held, Martin

AU - Diemer, Matthias

PY - 2003/12

Y1 - 2003/12

N2 - Wilderness is a popular con-cept in central Europe, al-though extensive naturalareas where human management haseither never occurred or ceased centuriesago are lacking. Wilderness areas tendto be small and isolated, and often cur-rently in the process of rewilding;therefore, wilderness and rewildingmust be viewed in a specific central Eu-ropean context. As Leopold (1942)notes about the value of small wilder-ness: “One of the symptoms ofimmaturity in our concept of recre-ational values is the assumption, frequent amongadministrators, that a small park or forest has no place forwilderness. No tract of land is too small for the wildernessidea. It can, and perhaps should, flavor the recreationalscheme for any woodlot or backyard.

AB - Wilderness is a popular con-cept in central Europe, al-though extensive naturalareas where human management haseither never occurred or ceased centuriesago are lacking. Wilderness areas tendto be small and isolated, and often cur-rently in the process of rewilding;therefore, wilderness and rewildingmust be viewed in a specific central Eu-ropean context. As Leopold (1942)notes about the value of small wilder-ness: “One of the symptoms ofimmaturity in our concept of recre-ational values is the assumption, frequent amongadministrators, that a small park or forest has no place forwilderness. No tract of land is too small for the wildernessidea. It can, and perhaps should, flavor the recreationalscheme for any woodlot or backyard.

KW - Environmental planning

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 9

SP - 7

EP - 11

JO - International Journal of Wilderness

JF - International Journal of Wilderness

SN - 1086-5519

IS - 3

ER -