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After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
Ben A. Minteer (Ed.)
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Description for After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
Hardcover. Brings together a consortium of voices comprised of renowned scientists, historians, philosophers, environmental writers, activists, policy makers, and land managers to negotiate the incredible challenges that environmentalism faces. Editor(s): Minteer, Ben A.; Pyne, Stephen J. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos - to protect nature from the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial devastation, metastasizing fire regimes, and other quickening anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the earth is now spinning through the age of humans. After Preservation takes stock of the ways we have tried to both preserve and exploit nature to ask a direct but profound ... Read more
From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos - to protect nature from the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial devastation, metastasizing fire regimes, and other quickening anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the earth is now spinning through the age of humans. After Preservation takes stock of the ways we have tried to both preserve and exploit nature to ask a direct but profound ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226259826
SKU
V9780226259826
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About Ben A. Minteer (Ed.)
Ben A. Minteer holds the Arizona Zoological Society Chair in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He has published a number of books, including Refounding Environmental Ethics and The Landscape of Reform. Stephen J. Pyne is a Regents' Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of ... Read more
Reviews for After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
"After Preservation asks one of the big, hairy, audacious questions of the early twenty-first century: How should humans relate to nature in the Anthropocene? Minteer and Pyne have assembled an impressive assortment of contributors to offer a wide-ranging set of answers in concise, poignant, and powerful essays. This is an important and timely contribution that should be read by people ... Read more