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Author : Sigurd F. Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : OCLC:43762249
Olson speaks of his philosophy of wilderness and conservation, its broad social value, reasons for its preservation, and the effects of overpopulation.
Author : Sigurd F. Olson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816637083
Author : Rebecca Ann Grossberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89070908454
Author : David Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : UCAL:B4321461
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D029964335
Author : Anthony Paul Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : IND:30000053062414
Author : Phillip Vannini,April Vannini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317568285
Wilderness provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness: how we conceptualise it, experience it, interact with, and imagine it. Drawing upon key theorists, philosophers, and researchers who have contributed important knowledge to the topic, this title argues for a relational and process based notion of the term and understands it as a keystone for the examination of issues from conservation to more-than-human relations. The text is organized around themed chapters discussing the concept of wilderness and its place in the social imagination, wilderness regulation and management, access, travel and tourism, representation in media and arts, and the use of wilderness for education, exploration, play, and therapy, as well as its parcelling out in parks, reserves, or remote "wastelands". The book maps out the historical transformation of the idea of wilderness, highlighting its intersections with notions of nature and wildness and teasing out the implications of these links for theoretical debate. It offers boxes that showcase important recent case studies ranging from the development of adventure travel and eco-tourism to the practice of trekking to the changing role of technology use in the wild. Summaries of key points, further readings, Internet-based resources, short videos, and discussion questions allow readers to grasp the importance of wilderness to wider social, cultural, political, economic, historical and everyday processes. Wilderness is designed for courses and modules on the subject at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. The book will also assist professional geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, environmental and cultural studies scholars to engage with recent and important literature on this elusive concept.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Wilderness areas
ISBN : UCR:31210016627034
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Wilderness areas
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996436Z
Author : David Ross Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000010656
Author : Robyn Bartel,Marty Branagan,Fiona Utley,Stephen Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000215137
Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called ‘fortress conservation’ and ‘co-existence’ schools of thought. This book, contending that this polarisation has led to a silencing and concealment of alternative perspectives and lines of enquiry, extends beyond these confines and in particular steers away from the dilemmas of paradise or paradox in order to advance an intellectual and policy agenda of plurality and diversity rather than of prescription and definition. Drawing on case studies from Australia, Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the United States and Iceland, and explorations of embodied experience, creative practice, philosophy, and First Nations land management approaches, the assembled chapters examine wilderness ideals, conflicts and human-nature dualities afresh, and examine co-existence and conservation in the Anthropocene in diverse ontological and multidisciplinary ways. By demonstrating a strong commitment to respecting the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this work delivers a more nuanced, ethical and decolonising approach to issues arising from relationships with wilderness. Such a collection is immediately appropriate given the political challenges and social complexities of our time, and the mounting threats to life across the globe. The abiding and uniting logic of the book is to offer a unique and innovative contribution to engender transformations of wilderness scholarship, activism and conservation policy. This text refutes the inherent privileging and exclusionary tactics of dominant modes of enquiry that too often serve to silence non-human and contrary positions. It reveals a multi-faceted and contingent wilderness alive with agency, diversity and possibility. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, environmental and natural resource management, Indigenous studies and environmental policy and planning. It will also be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and NGOs involved in conservation, protected environments and environmental governance.
Author : David Louter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295989846
In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. With a lively style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of Washington State’s national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret their meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places. Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in national parks.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996449Q
There are growing pressures on undeveloped (wild) places in the Circumpolar North. Among them are pressures for economic development, oil and gas exploration and extraction, development of geothermal energy resources, development of heavy industry close to energy sources, and lack of appreciation for "other" orientations toward wilderness resources by interested parties from broad geographical origins. An international seminar in Anchorage, Alaska, in May of 2001, was the first step in providing basic input to an analysis of the primary set of values associated with Circumpolar North wilderness and the constraints and contributors (factors of influence) that either limit or facilitate receipt of those values to various segments of society.
Author : Carpenter, Colleen Mary
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336326
Author : Kelly Enright
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813932439
Danger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century. In The Maximum of Wilderness, Kelly Enright traces the representation of tropical forests--what Americans have typically thought of as "jungles"--and their place in both our perception of "wildness" and the globalization of the environmental movement. In the early twentieth century, jungle adventure--as depicted by countless books and films, from Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to King Kong--had enormous mass appeal. Concurrent with the proliferation of a popular image of the jungle that masked many of its truths was the work of American naturalists who sought to represent an "authentic" view of tropical nature through museums, zoological and botanical gardens, books, and film. Enright examines the relationship between popular and scientific representations of the forest through the lives and work of Martin and Osa Johnson (who with films such as Congorilla and Simba blended authenticity with adventure), as well as renowned naturalists John Muir, William Beebe, David Fairchild, and Richard Evans Schultes. The author goes on to explore a startling shift at midcentury in the perception of the tropical forest--from the "jungle," a place that endangers human life, to the "rain forest," a place that is itself endangered.