Keeping the Wild : Against the Domestication of Earth /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Wuerthner, George. (Editor ), Crist, Eileen. (Editor ), Butler, Tom. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Lives Not Our Own
  • 1. Rise of the Neo-greens
  • 2. The Conceptual Assassination of Wilderness
  • 3. Ptolemaic Environmentalism
  • 4. With Friends Like These, Wilderness and Biodiversity Do Not Need Enemies
  • 5. What’s So New about the “New Conservation”?
  • 6. Conservation in No-Man’s-Land
  • 7. The “New Conservation”
  • 8. The Fable of Managed Earth
  • 9. Conservation in the Anthropocene
  • 10. The Myth of the Humanized Pre-Columbian Landscape
  • 11. The Future of Conservation: An Australian Perspective
  • 12. Expanding Parks, Reducing Human Numbers, and Preserving All the Wild Nature We Can: A Superior Alternative to Embracing the Anthropocene Era
  • 13. Green Postmodernism and the Attempted Highjacking of Conservation
  • 14. Why the Working Landscape Isn’t Working
  • 15. Valuing Naturalness in the “Anthropocene”: Now More than Ever
  • 16. Wild World
  • 17. Living Beauty
  • 18. Wilderness: What and Why?
  • 19. Resistance. 20. An Open Letter to Major John Wesley Powell
  • Epilogue: The Road to Cape Perpetua
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index.