Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
In Wild Earth 5, no. 3 Wendell Berry writes about private property and the Commonwealth, Thomas P. Rooney reflects on global warming, and Paul J. Kalisz analyses sustainable silviculture in the hardwood forests of the eastern United States.
John S. Akama, Christopher L. Lant, and G. Wesley Burnett use a political-ecological framework in the analysis of the social factors of wildlife conservation in Kenya.
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.
Allan Curtis and Terry De Lacey analyze perceptions of the Australian grassroots movement “Landcare” through landholder surveys, thereby discussing wider concepts of natural resource management, stewardship and sustainable agriculture in Australia.
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.
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 9, no. 4 features visionary essays that reimagine the future. Topics include abolitionism and preservationism, the environment and the US constitution, and the Buffalo Commons.
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
In this first issue of Live Wild or Die! the editors ask, “why be modest in the face of impending doom? Live wild or die!” Toby discusses how biocentrism can lead to destruction of nature; Feral Faun explains why there is more to the Earth First! movement and why the name should be left behind; Sneaky Driller sheds light on tree spiking; and Sheriff Jim Weeds explains the deeper meaning of ecoterrorism.