Wild ideas /

Wild ideas / David Rothenberg, editor. - xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes the results of the 5th World Wilderness Congress held in Tromsø, Norway in September 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: Wildness Untamed: The Evolution of an Ideal -- Wise and Sustainable Uses: Revisioning Wilderness -- Habitable Earth: Wilderness, Empire, and Race in America -- Earth-Talk: Conservation and the Ecology of Language -- Pancultural Wilderness -- Reminiscing about a Sleepy Lake: Borderland Views of Women, Place, and the Wild -- Confessions of an Eco-Colonialist: Responsible Knowing among the Inuit -- Out of the Map, into the Territory: The Earthly Topology of Time -- Silent Wolves: The Howl of the Implicit -- The Idea of the North: An Iceberg History -- The Princess of the Stars: Music for a Wilderness Lake -- Beauty and the Beasts: Predators in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains -- Healing by the Wilderness Experience -- Urban Wilderness -- Epilogue: Paradox Wild -- Contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Nature conservation--Philosophy--Congresses
Ecology--Philosophy--Congresses
Wilderness areas--Congresses
Wildlife conservation--Philosophy--Congresses
Ecology--Philosophy
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation--Philosophy

QH75.A1 / W528 1995

333.7201

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