I just came across an interesting book recently published by Random House in the UK called Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain’s Fragmented Wildlife, by Hugh Warwick. In the book, the author discussed some of my research, published a few years ago in an article called ‘Under the radar: mitigating enigmatic ecological impacts‘ (contact me if you’d like a copy).

I really like the discussion, even though he’s misquoted me a little (still, the point I was making is unchanged). What a nice feeling to see my research quoted as an example of ‘recent thinking’ and incorporated into the global discourse in such an obviously well-researched and thoughtful book. I hope to have more of my reasearch on the ecological implications of the lines that we draw through wild landscapes published soon too!

Click on this link to see the discussion: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=REEtDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT150&dq=keren+raiter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjck5aRmOjUAhWDabwKHbWuDKYQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=keren%20raiter&f=false

Here is the book’s blurb: It is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines – the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of lines has transformed our landscape.
In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of the lines we have drawn: as our lives and our land were being fenced in and threaded together, so wildlife habitats have been cut into ever smaller, and increasingly unviable, fragments.
I’d love to hear any comments from anyone who has read it!