Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-261) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Lives not our own / Tom Butler -- 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 SouleĢ -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue. The road to Cape Perpetua / Kathleen Dean Moore.
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