TY - BOOK AU - Bastmeijer, Kees(ED.) TI - Wilderness Protection in Europe: The Role of International, European and National Law SN - 978-1-107-05789-0 U1 - 349.6 PY - 2016/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Wilderness in Europe KW - Mapping wilderness in Europe KW - Ecological values of wilderness in Europe KW - Social values of wilderness in Europe KW - Economic values of wilderness in Europe KW - The role of international treaties and European Union law in protecting wilderness in Europe KW - Wilderness protection in Europe and the relevance of the World Heritage Convention KW - Wilderness protection under the Bern Convention KW - Natura 2000 and the protection of wilderness in Europe KW - The role of national law in protecting wilderness in Europe KW - Wilderness protection in Austria KW - Wilderness protection in the Czech Republic KW - Wilderness protection in Estonia KW - Wilderness protection in Finland KW - Wilderness protection in Hungary KW - Wilderness protection in Iceland KW - Wilderness protection in Norway KW - Wilderness protection in Poland KW - Wilderness protection in Russia KW - Wilderness protection in Spain KW - Wilderness protection in Sweden KW - Wilderness protection in United Kingdom N2 - Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past, such areas were considered wasteland, whose value lay only in their potential for cultivation and economic exploitation ER -