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.

SECTION 1 THE EVOLUTION OF REWILDING

1. Introduction: What is rewilding?

Sally Hawkins, Rene Beyers, Steve Carver and Ian Convery

2. The emergence of rewilding in North America

Mark Fisher and Steve Carver

3. The emergence of rewilding in Europe

Alexandra Locquet and Steve Carver

4. Ecological restoration and rewilding: Integrating communities of practice to achieve common goals

Cara R. Nelson

5. Developing a framework for rewilding based on its social-ecological aims
   Sally Hawkins

SECTION 2 THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF REWILDING

6. Trophic cascades as a basis for rewilding
   T.J. Clark-Wolf and Mark Hebblewhite
7. Species translocations, taxon replacements, and rewilding

Mark Stanley-Price

8. Cores and corridors: Natural landscape linkages to rewild protected areas and wildlife refuges

Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Andrew Gregory and Adrien Guette

9. Mapping wildness and opportunities for rewilding

Steve Carver

10. Measuring success in rewilding: Ecological overview

René Beyers and Antony R.E. Sinclair

11. Measuring success in rewilding? Coping with socio-ecological uncertainties in rewilding projects
    Meredith Root-Bernstein
12. Rewilding 'knowledges': Blending science and Indigenous knowledge systems

Lisa Fenton and Zoe Playdon

13. Rewilding: A legal perspective

Adam Eagle, Alex Cooper, Rob Espin, Jack Gould and Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby

SECTION 3 APPLICATION AND IMPACTS OF REWILDING

14. Rewilding case study: Yellowstone to Yukon

Jodi Hilty, Charles Chester and Pamela Wright

15. Rewilding case study: Carrifran Wildwood

Stuart Adair and Philip Ashmole

16. 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

17. Rewilding case study: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Rob Pringle and Dominique Gonçalves

18. Rewilding case study: Restoring Western Australia's rangelands: Mutawa/Kurrara Kurrara

Ian Kealley and Neil Burrows

19. Rewilding case study: Forest restoration: conservation outcomes and lessons from Terai Arc Landscape, Nepal
    Ananta Ram Bhandari and Shiv Raj Bhatta
20. Rewilding case study: Monitoring natural capital and rewilding at the Natural Capital Laboratory, Birchfield, Loch Ness
    Chris White, Emilia Leese, Ian Convery, and Philip Rooney
21. Eco-civilisation provides new opportunities for rewilding in China
    Yue Cao, Zhicong Zhao, Rui Yang, Steve Carver, and Ian Convery
22. Restoring what we've lost: Lessons from evolutionary history for rewilding and coexisting in landscapes with predators

Joanna E. Lambert and Joel Berger

23. Rewilding and farming: Could the relationship be improved through adopting a three compartment approach to land use?
    Julia Aglionby and Hannah Field
24. Unseen connections: The role of fungi in rewilding
    David Sattori and Matt Wainhouse
25. Rewilding and human health

Heather VanVolkenburg, Rene Beyers, Cara Nelson, Liette Vasseur, Angela Andrade, Ian Convery and Steve Carver

26. Rewilding, the wildlife trade, and human conflict
    René Beyers and Sally Hawkins
27. Rewilding children and young people: The role of education and schools

Heather Prince

28. Wild adventure: A restorying
    Chris Loynes

SECTION 4 WILDER VALUES: THE ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF REWILDING

29. Wilder values: The ethics and philosophy of rewilding

Kate Rawles (section editor)

30. Rewilding from the inside out: A personal commitment to other animals and their homes during the Anthropause and afterwards
    Marc Bekoff
31. 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

32. Wild democracy: Ecodemocracy in rewilding
    Helen Kopnina, Simon Leadbeater, and Anja Heister
33. Rewilding and the ethics of place

Martin Drenthen

34. Knepp Wildland; the ethos and efficacy of Britain's first private rewilding project
    Simon Leadbeater, Helen Kopnina and Paul Cryer
35. Human rewilding: Practical pointers to address a root cause of global environmental crises
    Georgina Maffey and Koen Arts