Wild Earth 4, no. 2
Wild Earth 4, no. 2 features Wendell Berry on “A Walk Down Camp Branch,” Howie Wolke’s “Butchering the Big Wild,” and William R. Catton, Jr., on “Carrying Capacity and the Death of a Culture.”
Wild Earth 4, no. 2 features Wendell Berry on “A Walk Down Camp Branch,” Howie Wolke’s “Butchering the Big Wild,” and William R. Catton, Jr., on “Carrying Capacity and the Death of a Culture.”
This issue of Wild Earth celebrates the third year of the Wildlands Project featuring the theme “A Critique and Defense of the Wilderness Idea,” as well as essays on: falcons in urban environments, state complicity in wildlife losses, and common lands recovery.
Wild Earth 6, no. 4 features essays opposing wilderness deconstruction. Gary Snyder writes on nature as a social construction, Dave Foreman contributes a piece on the conservation opposition’s underlying views, and Don Waller discusses the evolution of wilderness concepts.
Michael Mason argues that Habermasian moral theory reveals a key tension between, on the one hand, an ethical commitment to wilderness preservation informed by deep ecological and bioregional principles that is oriented to a naturalistic value order and, on the other, the procedural norms of democratic participation.
This paper outlines a constructivist approach to environmental ethics which attempts to reconcile realism in the ontological sense.
In this paper, it is argued that Nietzsche’s account of nature provides us with a challenging diagnosis of the modern crisis in our relationship with nature.
Wild Earth 8, no. 1 features essays on protection strategies for old growth forests, the problems of non-indigenous species for freshwater conservation, and using direct democracy to defend nature.
Wild Earth 8, no. 4 celebrates a “Wilderness Revival.” The essays present American and Canadian perspectives on wilderness and its values, wilderness politics, and wilderness campaigns both new and old.
Wild Earth 3, no. 4 puts the spotlight on endangered invertebrates, exotic pests in US forests, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, and keywords of conservation and environmental discourses.
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