The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.
Troubles with Turtles provides an enthusiastic and provocative anthropological account of human-environment relationships in the island community of the village Vassilikos, Zakynthos, Greece.
Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
Tthe first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world.
Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.