The Wilderness Debate Rages On
Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate
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Pages: 744
Trim size: 6.120in x 9.250in
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Paperback
Pub Date: 10/15/2008
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3171-3
List Price: $48.95
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NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
The Wilderness Debate Rages On
Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate
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Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate.
Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best explorations of the concept of the concept of wilderness from the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or help us rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Maria Laitala are also given a voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding outside the academy.
The writers represented in the anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold, for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had these writers influenced the eventual development of federal wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative ecosystems and biodiversity.
The Wilderness Debate clearly rages on, and this is a fine and engaging representation of it as well as a constructive contribution to it on many levels. Strong and wide-ranging essays detail and deepen a real rollicking philosophical debate with serious stakes and thus will make this collection stand out and stand alone.
—Anthony Weston, author of A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox
This new collection, like the first one, will be essential reading for anyone working in the new and burgeoning field of religion and ecology.
—Religious Studies Review
Charles C. Adams
Jill M. Belsky
Wendell Berry
G. Burnett
Eileen Crist
William Cronan
Kevin DeLuca
Anne Demo
Antonio Diegues
Joseph S. Dixon
Dave Foreman
Joseph Grinnell
Feng Han
Kurt Jax
Mark P. Jenkins
Cassandra Y. Johnson
Irene J. Klaver
Lynn Laitala
Aldo Leopold
Jonathan Maskit
J. McCloskey
Barrington Moore
Kathleen Moore
John O'Neill
David W. Orr
Wayne Ouderkirk
Rolf O. Peterson
Marilynne Robinson
Richardo Rozzi
Scott Russell Sanders
Sahortra Sarkar
Victor E. Shelford
Kimberly K. Smith
Gary Snyder
Stephen H. Spurr
Tracy I. Storer
Francis B. Sumner
Ben H. Thompson
James Turner
John A. Vucetich
Julianne Lutz Warren
George M. Wright