Uncommon Ground Rethinking The Human Place In Nature

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780393242522

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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon Pdf

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393315110

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Uncommon Ground by William Cronon Pdf

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780393315110

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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon Pdf

This collection of essays historicizes the divorce of the 'natural' from the human, and shows that 'nature' is a human construction, arguing that what we have constructed we can reconstruct.

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136161247

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Reinventing Eden by Carolyn Merchant Pdf

This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393038726

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Uncommon Ground by William Cronon Pdf

Provocative essays by revisionist historians, scientists, and cultural critics explore the connection between nature and American culture, analyzing how it is packaged and presented at places such as Sea World and the Nature Company stores.

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429928281

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Changes in the Land by William Cronon Pdf

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393072457

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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon Pdf

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe

Author : David N. Cole,Laurie Yung
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597269117

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Beyond Naturalness by David N. Cole,Laurie Yung Pdf

The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, pollution, invasive species, and climate change become both more pronounced and more pervasive? Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect park and wilderness values. The main conclusion is the idea that naturalness will continue to provide an important touchstone for protected area conservation, but that more specific goals and objectives are needed to guide stewardship. The issues considered in Beyond Naturalness are central not just to conservation of parks, but to many areas of ecological thinking—including the fields of conservation biology and ecological restoration—and represent the cutting edge of discussions of both values and practice in the twenty-first century. This bookoffers excellent writing and focus, along with remarkable clarity of thought on some of the difficult questions being raised in light of new and changing stressors such as global environmental climate change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : OCLC:1302547393

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Uncommon Ground by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael E. Soulé,Gary Lease
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015032277389

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Reinventing Nature? by Michael E. Soulé,Gary Lease Pdf

Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions and conceptions of nature affect both the individual experience and society's management of nature. Leading thinkers from a variety of fields - philosophy sociology, zoology, history, ethnobiology and others - address the conflict between the perception and reality of nature, each from a different perspective.

Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247251

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Rendering Nature by Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young Pdf

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival—health, sustenance, shelter—or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes—animals, bodies, places, and politics—the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament. Contributors: Thomas G. Andrews, Connie Y. Chiang, Catherine Cocks, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Finis Dunaway, John Herron, Andrew Kirk, Frieda Knobloch, Susan A. Miller, Brett Mizelle, Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young.

Author : William Deverell,Greg Hise
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0822959399

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Land of Sunshine by William Deverell,Greg Hise Pdf

Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism--is one place to turn for the more complex lessons LA has to offer. Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of "roads not taken," these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature. In the nineteenth century, for example, "density" was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks "made life seem worth the living." We now call that vision "sprawl," and we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American cities. There's nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It's only by paying very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed that meaningful lessons can be drawn. History matters. So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again. The result is a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.

Author : Otto Herzberg Frankel,Anthony H. D. Brown,Jeremy James Burdon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521467314

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The Conservation of Plant Biodiversity by Otto Herzberg Frankel,Anthony H. D. Brown,Jeremy James Burdon Pdf

Discusses the various options for conserving plants at the level of the gene, species and community.

Author : Thomas M. Wickman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426794

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Snowshoe Country by Thomas M. Wickman Pdf

An environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, examining indigenous and settler knowledge of life in the cold.

Author : Bill McKibben
Publisher : Random House
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780804153447

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The End of Nature by Bill McKibben Pdf

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. His new introduction addresses some of the latest environmental issues that have risen during the 1990s. The book also includes an invaluable new appendix of facts and figures that surveys the progress of the environmental movement. More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalog of scientific prediction, this classic, soulful lament on Nature is required reading for nature enthusiasts, activists, and concerned citizens alike.