This volume addresses the pressing need to continue the work of bringing sustainability into the college classroom. It provides accounts from a variety of instructors experiences with and best practices for incorporating climate change issues into writing-intensive courses.
Nathaniel Van Yperen offers an original argument for how wilderness can evoke a vision of a good life in which creaturely limits are accepted in gratitude, even in the face of ambiguity and mystery. Through the theme of gratitude, the book refocuses attention on the role of affection and testimony in ecological ethics and Christian ethics.
Earth is sick from human-induced climate change, but this illness can be remedied if human beings remember their ancestral bond with the planetary home that sustains them. As humans experience a reawakening of love and respect for the web of life surrounding them, they will think sustainably and act sustainably.
Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to examine environmental history. A parallel track exists alongside the Conservancy's story, and that is the evolution of land acquisition practices and comprehensive growth management planning efforts at ......
In this concise and engaging survey of more than 250 years of American environmental activism to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society, historian Kevin Armitage tells the story of a magnificent American achievement-and the ongoing problems that environmentalism faces today.
The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures
Celebrating our national parks *Denali National Park celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2017 *The park attracts more than 400,000 visitors annually *More than 60 historic photographs throughout Historic Denali National Park is a vibrant narrative that covers different parts of the park's history, from the Native Americans and the early ......
The book examines the creation of a trinational transboundary conservation project in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It narrates local residents' struggles to participate in the new park due to misinformation, violence, and forced displacement, problematizing participation in conservation at both local and international levels.
Environmental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change
Climate change is often associated with predictions of dire calamities. But in the past, heroic individuals have stepped forward to meet even the most ominous ecological challenges. This book tells an inspirational story--a story both of pioneering environmentalists who raised our collective consciousness regarding nature's value and heroes of ......
