{"product_id":"the-wilderness-debate-rages-on-michael-p-nelson-9780820331713","title":"The Wilderness Debate Rages on: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen years ago, \u003ci\u003eThe Great New Wilderness Debate\u003c\/i\u003e began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of \"wilderness\" and the controversies that surround them. \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness Debate Rages On\u003c\/i\u003e will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness Debate Rages On\u003c\/i\u003e includes the best explorations of the concept of the concept of wilderness from the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or help us rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Maria Laitala are also given a voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding outside the academy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe writers represented in the anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold, for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had these writers influenced the eventual development of federal wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative ecosystems and biodiversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael P. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820331716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820331713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.80d","brand":"Michael P. Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926506537215,"sku":"9780820331713","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f3f0e7b2-01e4-48ca-87f1-bf1e89243c26.jpg?v=1681083458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wilderness-debate-rages-on-michael-p-nelson-9780820331713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}