Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-Existence

ISBN-13: 9780367279851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

Robyn Bartel; Marty Branagan; Fiona Utley

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Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

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Part 1. What is wilderness? The stories we tell  1. Wilderness in Literature and Culture: Changing perceptions of the relationship with ‘country’  2. Evolving values of wilderness in the Age of Extinction: Environmental campaigning in Australia  3. Collaborative Wilderness Preservation and the Franklin River Campaign: Environmentalists, Aboriginal People and the Creative Arts  4. The Wilderness experience in National Parks: A case study of Boonoo Boonoo National Park  5. Aboriginal owned and jointly managed national parks: Caring for cultural imperatives and conservation outcomes  6. Changing Attitudes towards Wilderness in Aotearoa/New Zealand: From Disappointment to Glorification and Guardianship  Part 2. The how of wilderness: Relationships and reciprocity  7. Reimagining wilderness and the wild in Australia in the wake of bushfires  8. Human Engagement in Place-Care: Back from the Wilderness  9. Botanical Wilderness Narratives: Plant Intelligence and Shifting Perceptions of the Botanical World  10. People as purposeful and conscientious resource stewards: Human Agency in a World Gone Wild  11. Exploring wilderness in Iceland: Charting meaningful encounters with uninhabited lands  Part 3. The why of wilderness: New and different wilds  12. Wilderness Triumphant: Beyond Romantic Nature, Settlement and Agriculture  13. The future of wilderness in the Anthropocene and beyond: Wild machinations  14. Rewilding as an expression of love: philosophical perspectives on human engagement  15. From Wilderness Preservation to the Fight for Lawlands: Towards a Revisioning of Conservation  16. Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: restoring human relationships with place and nature