Download or read book Refining the Definition of Wilderness written by Martin Hawes and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild written by Robyn Bartel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called ‘fortress conservation’ and ‘co-existence’ schools of thought. This book, contending that this polarisation has led to a silencing and concealment of alternative perspectives and lines of enquiry, extends beyond these confines and in particular steers away from the dilemmas of paradise or paradox in order to advance an intellectual and policy agenda of plurality and diversity rather than of prescription and definition. Drawing on case studies from Australia, Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the United States and Iceland, and explorations of embodied experience, creative practice, philosophy, and First Nations land management approaches, the assembled chapters examine wilderness ideals, conflicts and human-nature dualities afresh, and examine co-existence and conservation in the Anthropocene in diverse ontological and multidisciplinary ways. By demonstrating a strong commitment to respecting the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this work delivers a more nuanced, ethical and decolonising approach to issues arising from relationships with wilderness. Such a collection is immediately appropriate given the political challenges and social complexities of our time, and the mounting threats to life across the globe. The abiding and uniting logic of the book is to offer a unique and innovative contribution to engender transformations of wilderness scholarship, activism and conservation policy. This text refutes the inherent privileging and exclusionary tactics of dominant modes of enquiry that too often serve to silence non-human and contrary positions. It reveals a multi-faceted and contingent wilderness alive with agency, diversity and possibility. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, environmental and natural resource management, Indigenous studies and environmental policy and planning. It will also be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and NGOs involved in conservation, protected environments and environmental governance.
Download or read book Wilderness and the Common Good written by Jo Arney and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we save America's wilderness areas? Wilderness and the Common Good argues that the answer to this question lies in the actions of America's citizens. Beginning with The Wilderness Act of 1964, Dr. Jo Arney examines the state of American environmental policies and how they intersect with individual citizen action. Drawing on the work of environmental and political scientists, advocates, and philosophers, Dr. Arney argues that modern civic responsibility entails both an understanding of the importance of wilderness and citizen activism to ensure its existence. True and lasting protection for wilderness will be borne out of a shared understanding of how protected wilderness areas enriches all of our lives. Weaving in her own personal narratives, Dr. Arney shows that wild areas are not only important for the biodiversity that they safeguard but are also essential for the common good of our society.
Download or read book The Meaning of Wilderness written by Sigurd F. Olson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olson speaks of his philosophy of wilderness and conservation, its broad social value, reasons for its preservation, and the effects of overpopulation.
Download or read book The Meaning of Wilderness written by Sigurd F. Olson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enduring popularity of The Singing Wilderness, Listening Point, Reflections from the North Country, and his other books, a major portion of Sigurd F. Olson's wilderness writing-much of it originating as speeches-has been relatively inaccessible, scattered in a number of magazines and obscure books over a period of more than fifty years, or never published at all. The Meaning of Wilderness gathers together the most important of Olson's articles and speeches, making them available in one place for the first time. The book also contains an introduction and chapter-by-chapter commentary by Olson's authorized biographer, David Backes, that help the reader discover the various facets of Olson's wilderness philosophy and their development over time.
Download or read book Rooted in Rock written by Jim Gould and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past twenty years the Adirondacks have inspired a resident population of writers who have gained regional and national prominence using the Adirondack region as their primary setting and subject matter—or at least as a significant point of departure. Rooted in Rock is the first collection of its kind in more than twenty years, since Paul Jamieson's Adirondack Reader. What makes the volume unique, though, is the number of contributors who not only make the Adirondacks their subject, but who make their homes in these mountains. The works in this volume include contemporary essays, literary nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and excerpted fiction and are a mix of new and previously published writings by forty-three authors, established as well as emerging, including Bill McKibben, Sue Halpern, Russell Banks, Alex Schoumatoff, Chase Twichell, Curt Stager, Amy Godine, and Jim Gould, to name a few.
Download or read book Rewilding written by Nathalie Pettorelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a global and interdisciplinary lens, this book discusses, analyzes and summarizes the novel conservation approach of rewilding. The volume introduces key rewilding definitions and initiatives, highlighting their similarities and differences. It reviews matches and mismatches between the current state of ecological knowledge and the stated aims of rewilding projects, and discusses the role of human action in rewilding initiatives. Collating current scholarship, the book also considers the merits and dangers of rewilding approaches, as well as the economic and socio-political realities of using rewilding as a conservation tool. Its interdisciplinary nature will appeal to a broad range of readers, from primary ecologists and conservation biologists to land managers, policy makers and conservation practitioners in NGOs and government departments. Written for a scientifically literate readership of academics, researchers, students, and managers, the book also acts as a key resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.
Download or read book River of No Return wilderness proposals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle for the Wilderness written by Michael Frome and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Battle for the Wilderness is one of the important works of the American conservation movement. Centered on the struggle to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act, it offers a well-written, workable definition of wilderness and presents conservation as a vital thread in American history. In a completely new preface, Michael Frome ruminates on the relative treatment of the wilderness system under successive administrations, and on recent approaches to the preservation of wild lands. The full text of the Wilderness Act - the document remains at the center of continuing disputes over the definition, designation, and disposition of wilderness - is reproduced in one appendix, while another appendix lists all the wilderness areas now designated in the fifty states."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Wilderness Experience Definition and Management written by Richard B. Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meaning of Wilderness written by Anthony Paul Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilderness as Sacred Space written by Linda H. Graber and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the basic ideas of the wilderness ethic and analyzes their role in giving form and definition to human encounters with nature. There are four chapters in the study. Chapter I "Sacred Space and Geopiety" uses concepts derived from phenomenology of religion to consider the wilderness ethic as a belief system and wilderness purists as a community of believers. This section attempts to define key terms, to establish the nature and characteristics of sacred space, to describe the fundamental assumptions about man/environment relations which underlie the wilderness ethic, and to sketch the social characteristics of the community of Wilderness purists. Chapter II "Object and Subject in Reciprocal Relation: Inward Action" considers the process by which individual experience is generalized to a group mode of perception by means of the development and dissemination of wilderness imagery. Verbal and visual images lend significant form to individual feelings and help define the wilderness experience as an event central to one's inner life. Chapter III "Object and Subject in Reciprocal Relation: Outward Action" discusses the political implications of inward action. Individual behavior in wilderness and group political action on behalf of preservationist goals are shown to be dependent on wilderness imagery for conceptual definition and for public visibility. Chapter IV presents a summary and conclusions, in the form of six themes which characterize the wilderness preservation movement as a belief system and as a political program. (Author/RM)
Download or read book The U S Bureau of Land Management s Definition of Wilderness written by Rodney Eugene Greeno and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Narrow Gate written by D’Antoinette Guy MTS and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more Christians are embracing the concept that they have been created for a divine purpose. Many are proclaiming their sense of call to some form of ministry or business for the building of Gods Kingdom. However, one question lingers; If God has created every individual with purpose, graced each with gifts and ordained vision, why are we not seeing the Kingdom of God manifest in healthy, powerful, mature, and abundant fruit-bearing outcomes? Well, Jesus gave the answer: ...narrow is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:14 NIV The Narrow Gate is a work suited to both the growing believer and those who lead. Once a new believer has been discipled, this work provides a detailed explanation and encourages the believer to begin the personal work of transformation in preparation for healthy and meaningful service. For those who serve in leadership, this work will help you discover a means to identify and transform growth areas into solid qualities of excellence with which to improve mentoring and leadership skills. Everyone can utilize this work to assess personal wholeness and promote effective kingdom building. The Narrow Gate provides a comprehensive guide and exploration into the internal work of transformation. Believers are invited to enter through The Narrow Gate to discover Gods purposes in breaking, melting, and molding believers in preparation for divine destiny. Herein is an opportunity to journey with God through the wilderness of transformation.
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
Download or read book ORRRC Study Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management of Old Growth Forests written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight, Northwest Power, and Forest Management and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
