The wilderness debate rages on : continuing the great new wilderness debate

摘要: This title features writings from the battlefront of ideas over nature and wildness. Ten years ago, "The Great New Wilderness Debate" began a cross-disciplinary conversation about varied constructions 'wilderness' controversies that surrounded them. Debate Rages On" will reinvigorate usher in second decade debate.Like its predecessor, book gathers both critiques defenses idea wilderness wide variety perspectives voices. includes best work done on concept past decade, underappreciated essays early twentieth century offer an alternative vision importance wilderness, meant to clarify or rethink wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, Lynn Laitala are also given voice order show how debate is expanding outside academy.The represented anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, activists. The begins with little-known papers by twentieth-century ecologists advocating preservation natural areas for scientific study, not, did Thoreau, Muir, Leopold, purposes outdoor recreation. editors argue had these influenced eventual development federal policy, our national system would better serve contemporary priorities representative ecosystems biodiversity.