Keeping the wild
Subtitle: against the domestication of earth
By: edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler
Contributors: Foundation for Deep Ecology
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781610915588
Subjects: Environmental protection; Nature conservation; Nature; Biodiversity conservation; Deep ecology; Philosophy; Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Lives not our own / Tom Butler; title: Part One. Clashing worldviews. Rise of the neo-greens / Paul Kingsnorth ; The conceptual assassination of wilderness / David W. Kidner ; Ptolemaic environmentalism / Eileen Crist ; With friends like these, wilderness and biodiversity do not need enemies / David Johns ; What's so new about the "new conservation"? / Curt Meine ; Conservation in no-man's-land / Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara ; The "new conservation" / Michael Soulé; title: Part Two. Against domestication. The fable of managed earth / David Ehrenfeld ; Conservation in the Anthropocene / Tim Caro, Jack Darwin, Tavis Forrester, Cynthia Ledoux-Bloom, and Caitlin Wells ; The myth of the humanized pre-Columbian landscape / Dave Foreman ; The future of conservation : an Australian perspective / Brendan Mackey ; Expanding parks, reducing human numbers, and preserving all the wild nature we can : a superior alternative to embracing the Anthropocene era / Philip Cafaro ; Green postmodernism and the attempted highjacking of conservation / Harvey Locke ; Why the working landscape isn't working / George Wuerthner ; Valuing naturalness in the "Anthropocene" : now more than ever / Ned Hettinger; title: Part Three. The value of the wild. Wild world / Roderick Frazier Nash ; Living beauty / Sandra Lubarsky ; Wilderness : what and why? / Howie Wolke ; Resistance / Lisi Krall ; An open letter to Major John Wesley Powell / Terry Tempest Williams; title: Epilogue. The road to Cape Perpetua / Kathleen Dean Moore.