After preservation : saving American nature in the age of humans / edited by Ben A. Minteer & Stephen J. Pyne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minteer, Ben A., 1969- editor.

Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental management--United States.

Environmental management.

United States.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos--to keep nature apart, to protect it. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial intensification, and other anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the eart is now spinning through the age of humans. After Preservation takes stock of the ways we have tried to both preserve and exploit nature to ask a direct but profound question: what is the role of preservation in an era of seemingly unstoppable human development?--back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Writing on Stone, Writing in the Wind / Stephen J. Pyne

Restoring the Nature of America / Andrew C. Revkin

Nature Preservation and Political Power in the Anthropocene / J. R. McNeill

Too Big for Nature / Erle C. Ellis

After Preservation? Dynamic Nature in the Anthropocene / Holmes Rolston III

Humility in the Anthropocene / Emma Marris

The Anthropocene and Ozymandias / Dave Foreman

The Higher Altruism / Donald Worster

The Anthropocene: Disturbing Name, Limited Insight / Chelsea K. Batavia

Ecology and the Human Future / Bryan Norton

A Letter to the Editors: In Defense of the Relative Wild / Curt Meine

When Extinction Is a Virtue / Ben A. Minteer

Pleistocene Rewilding and the Future of Biodiversity / Harry W. Greene

The Democratic Promise of Nature Preservation / Mark Fiege

Green Fire Meets Red Fire / Stephen J. Pyne

Restoration, Preservation, and Conservation: An Example for Dry Forests of the West / Diane J. Vosick

Preserving Nature on US Federal Lands: Managing Change in the Context of Change / Norman L. Christensen

After Preservation

-the Case of the Northern Spotted Owl / Jack Ward Thomas

Celebrating and Shaping Nature: Conservation in a Rapidly Changing World / F. Stuart Chapin III

Move Over Grizzly Adams

-Conservation for the Rest of Us / Hazel Wong

Endangered Species Conservation: Then and Now / Jamie Rappaport Clark

Resembling the Cosmic Rhythms: The Evolution of Nature and Stewardship in the Age of Humans / Amy Seidl

Coda / Bill McKibben.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-213) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9780226259826

022625982X

9780226259963

022625996X

OCLC:

887849357

Publisher Number:

99988118872

40024725110