How far this conviction of the malleability of land and society went showed also in the population of those new lands, that went according to extremely rigid and eugenic selection criteria. They had to guarantee that only the most genetically, economically, and ideologically suitable people were granted a place.
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Dolly Jørgensen, “Rethinking Rewilding,” Geoforum 65 (2015): 482–488.
Jamie Lorimer and Clemens Driessen, “From ‘Nazi Cows’ to Cosmopolitan ‘Ecological Engineers’: Specifying Rewilding through a History of Heck Cattle,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 106, no. 3 (2016): 631–652.
William Cronon, “The trouble with wilderness: or, getting back to the wrong nature,” Environmental History 1, no. 1 (1996): 7–28.
ICMO, Reconciling Nature and Human Interests, Report of the International Committee on the Management of Large Herbivores in the Oostvaardersplassen (ICMO) (The Hague/Wageningen: WING, June 2006).