Rethinking Wilderness
- ISBN-10
- 1460405714
- ISBN-13
- 9781460405710
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07-30
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Author
- Mark Woods
Description
The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.
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