Keeping the Wild Against the Domestication of Earth
Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
Island Press
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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. LivingBeauty
- 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