Description |
xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / Vance Martin -- Introduction: Wildness Untamed: The Evolution of an Ideal / David Rothenberg -- 1. Wise and Sustainable Uses: Revisioning Wilderness / R. Edward Grumbine -- 2. Habitable Earth: Wilderness, Empire, and Race in America / Denis Cosgrove -- 3. Earth-Talk: Conservation and the Ecology of Language / Max Oelschlaeger -- 4. Pancultural Wilderness / Marvin Henberg -- 5. Reminiscing about a Sleepy Lake: Borderland Views of Women, Place, and the Wild / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- 6. Confessions of an Eco-Colonialist: Responsible Knowing among the Inuit / Douglas J. Buege -- 7. Out of the Map, into the Territory: The Earthly Topology of Time / David Abram -- 8. Silent Wolves: The Howl of the Implicit / Irene Klaver -- 9. The Idea of the North: An Iceberg History / David Rothenberg -- 10. The Princess of the Stars: Music for a Wilderness Lake / R. Murray Schafer -- 11. Beauty and the Beasts: Predators in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains / Tom Wolf |
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12. Healing by the Wilderness Experience / Robert Greenway -- 13. Urban Wilderness / Andrew Light -- Epilogue: Paradox Wild / David Rothenberg |
Notes |
Includes the results of the 5th World Wilderness Congress held in Tromsø, Norway in September 1993 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Nature conservation -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Ecology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Wilderness areas -- Congresses.
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Wildlife conservation -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Rothenberg, David, 1962-
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World Wilderness Congress (5th :, : 1993 : Tromsø, Norway)
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LC no. |
94049620 |
ISBN |
0816626146 (hc : acid-free paper) |
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0816626154 (pb : acid-free paper) |
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