The Great New Wilderness DebateJ. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson University of Georgia Press, 1998 - 697 pages The Great New Wilderness Debate is an expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the modern era. This eclectic volume on the varied constructions of “wilderness” reveals the recent controversies that surround those conceptions, and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness "preservation" and those who argue for "wise use." J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson have selected thirty-nine essays that provide historical context, range broadly across the issues, and set forth the positions of the debate. Beginning with such well-known authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, the collection moves forward to the contemporary debate and presents seminal works by a number of the most distinguished scholars in environmental history and environmental philosophy. The Great New Wilderness Debate also includes essays by conservation biologists, cultural geographers, environmental activists, and contemporary writers on the environment. |
Contents
PART ONE The Received Wilderness Idea | 21 |
Walking and Huckleberries | 31 |
Wilderness Hunters and Wilderness Game | 63 |
Aldo Leopold Wilderness as a Form of Land Use | 75 |
Robert Marshall The Problem of the Wilderness vii | 85 |
A Starker Leopold et al Wildlife Management | 103 |
The Preservation of Wilderness? | 131 |
Michael P Nelson An Amalgamation | 154 |
PART THREE The Wilderness Idea Roundly Criticized | 335 |
Holmes Rolston III The Wilderness Idea | 367 |
J Baird Callicott That Good OldTime Wilderness | 387 |
Dave Foreman Wilderness Areas for Real | 395 |
Reed F Noss Sustainability and Wilderness | 408 |
William Cronon The Trouble with Wilderness | 471 |
Marvin Henberg Wilderness Myth and American | 500 |
PART FOUR Beyond the Wilderness Idea | 511 |
PART TWO Third and Fourth World Views | 199 |
Roderick Nash The International Perspective | 207 |
David Harmon Cultural Diversity Human | 217 |
Ramachandra Guha Radical American | 231 |
David M Johns The Relevance of Deep Ecology | 246 |
Ramachandra Guha Deep Ecology Revisited | 271 |
Arne Naess The Third World Wilderness | 280 |
Arturo GómezPompa and Andrea Kaus | 293 |
Carl Talbot The Wilderness Narrative and | 325 |
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