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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: George Wuerthner , Eileen Crist , Tom ButlerPublisher: Island Press Imprint: Island Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781610915489ISBN 10: 1610915488 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 19 February 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsEverything we have, need, use, or want comes from nature. Protecting the Wild is a powerful and urgent reminder that we must enlarge protected areas and connect them, as well as manage the surrounding landscape for conservation, to assure the survival of all forms of life, our own included, on this beautiful planet. --George Schaller field biologist, Panthera ...inspiring...gives conservation a positive vision of the future. --Wildlife Activist A stellar collection of essays that...seeks to reaffirm and update conservation's traditional commitment to preserving nature. --Environmental Values Protecting the Wild is an ambitious, passionate plea in support of a worthy effort. --Ecology [Protecting the Wild is] a powerful and impassioned push-back to what is becoming a kind of conventional wisdom among a certain clique of environmentalists. --Earth Island Journal Protecting the Wild is a monument. --San Francisco Book Review This in-depth analysis of environmental conservation shows how seeking new responses to decreasing biodiversity can offer hope. ...a powerful collection --Foreword Reviews Everything we have, need, use, or want comes from nature. Protecting the Wild is a powerful and urgent reminder that we must enlarge protected areas and connect them, as well as manage the surrounding landscape for conservation, to assure the survival of all forms of life, our own included, on this beautiful planet. --George Schaller field biologist, Panthera Everything we have, need, use, or want comes from nature. <i>Protecting the Wild</i> is a powerful and urgent reminder that we must enlarge protected areas and connect them, as well as manage the surrounding landscape for conservation, to assure the survival of all forms of life, our own included, on this beautiful planet. --George Schaller field biologist, Panthera Author InformationGeorge Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, where he does research and writes about environmental issues. For many years he was a full-time freelance photographer and writer and has published thirty-five books on natural history, conservation history, ecology, and environmental issues. Eileen Crist teaches at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and co-editor of Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis. Tom Butler, a Vermont-based conservation activist and writer, is the board president of the Northeast Wilderness Trust and the former long serving editor of Wild Earth journal. His books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, and ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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