Author: Will Wright
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903064
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Wild Knowledge
Author: Will Wright
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903064
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903064
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Wild Knowledge
Author: Anders Indset
Publisher: Lid Publishing
ISBN: 9781912555321
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Lid Publishing
ISBN: 9781912555321
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Abstract Wild
Author: Jack Turner
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547394
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547394
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.
Audubon Wildlife Report 1988/1989
Author: William J. Chandler
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483274578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Audubon Wildlife Report 1988/1989 focuses on federal wildlife conservation policy, with extensive background information on the history, legal authorities, and administrative structure of federal wildlife agencies and programs. The report also includes in-depth treatment of significant problems, issues, and developments including wildlife. The text is divided into five parts. Part One features an agency related to wildlife conservation, which is The National Marine Fisheries Service in this volume. Part Two covers wildlife issues in national forests and national parks, as well as legal developments affecting wildlife. Part Three deals with challenges in conservation such as wildlife and water projects on the Platte River, international wildlife trade, and plastic debris and its effects on marine wildlife. Part Four discusses species accounts such as the moose, the Florida panther, and the common barn owl. Part Five consists of appendices which indexes directories of conservation agencies, congressional contacts, and the endangered species list. The book is recommended for biologists, conservationists, and environmentalists who would like to know more about the status of endangered species, as well as the problems and programs of certain conservation agencies.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483274578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Audubon Wildlife Report 1988/1989 focuses on federal wildlife conservation policy, with extensive background information on the history, legal authorities, and administrative structure of federal wildlife agencies and programs. The report also includes in-depth treatment of significant problems, issues, and developments including wildlife. The text is divided into five parts. Part One features an agency related to wildlife conservation, which is The National Marine Fisheries Service in this volume. Part Two covers wildlife issues in national forests and national parks, as well as legal developments affecting wildlife. Part Three deals with challenges in conservation such as wildlife and water projects on the Platte River, international wildlife trade, and plastic debris and its effects on marine wildlife. Part Four discusses species accounts such as the moose, the Florida panther, and the common barn owl. Part Five consists of appendices which indexes directories of conservation agencies, congressional contacts, and the endangered species list. The book is recommended for biologists, conservationists, and environmentalists who would like to know more about the status of endangered species, as well as the problems and programs of certain conservation agencies.
Knowledge
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Library of Universal Knowledge
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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The Century Reference Library of Universal Knowledge
Author: W.H. De Puy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Hill's Practical Reference Library of General Knowledge
Author: Thomas Edie Hill
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Belfast library and society for promoting knowledge, Linen hall library. General catalogue. [With] Suppl. catal
Author: George Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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