Sustainability education has typically centered the human-focusing on the changes and paradigm shifts needed to ensure a sustainable future for humans. Yet nonhuman beings, specifically plants and animals, are and have always been central to our lives, prompting wonder, curiosity, sensitivity and awe, as well as being important in their own right. ......
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value. Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons, but wilderness entails unremittent, incalculable suffering for its non-human habitants. Given that it will become increasingly possible to augment ......
Navigating Tensions of Purpose in the National Park Service
This book navigates the complicated tensions involved in effectively communication the National Park Service's mission to both conserve and preserve nature while also offering recreational experiences to the public. Maureen Wieland utilizes first-hand qualitative research conducted in Glacier National Park in Montana, one of America's most highly ......
Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake
The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America." Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation ......
Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake
The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America." Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation ......
Lessons Learned from 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act
A Tale of Two Cranes will serve as a launching pad for better understanding the progress and pitfalls inherent in endangered species management, through 50 years of lessons learned since the landmark Endangered Species Act was enacted by the United States Congress in December 1973
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives contains 15 essays that approach contemporary literary and cultural representations of ecological disaster in India from various theoretical angles. The studies engage with many of today's pressing ecological issues by carefully examining these diverse texts.
Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism.
Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was
An in-depth look at Walt Disneys last, unfinished project-Mineral King, a Disneyland-like resort at the top of a mountain-and the controversy that surrounded it, including the budding environmental movement that made sure the resort never saw the light of day.