The Land Is Our Community : Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millstein, Roberta L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leopold, Aldo, 1887-1948.

Leopold, Aldo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment. Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical obligations beyond the purely human to include what he variously termed the “land community” or the “biotic community”—communities of interdependent humans, nonhuman animals, plants, soils, and waters, understood collectively. This philosophy has been extremely influential in environmental ethics as well as conservation biology and related fields. Using an approach grounded in environmental ethics and the history and philosophy of science, Roberta L. Millstein reexamines Leopold’s land ethic in light of contemporary ecology. Despite the enormous influence of the land ethic, it has sometimes been dismissed as either empirically out of date or ethically flawed. Millstein argues that these dismissals are based on problematic readings of Leopold’s ideas. In this book, she provides new interpretations of the central concepts underlying the land ethic: interdependence, land community, and land health. She also offers a fresh take on of his argument for extending our ethics to include land communities as well as Leopold-inspired guidelines for how the land ethic can steer conservation and restoration policy.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Chapter One. Reinterpreting Leopold

Chapter Two. Interdependence

Chapter Three. Land Communities

Chapter Four. Land Health

Chapter Five. Arguing for the Land Ethic

Chapter Six. Policy Implications

References

Index

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Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Millstein, Roberta L. The Land Is Our Community

ISBN:

9780226834474

OCLC:

1443936808