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  • The Fall of the Wild

    Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

    by Ben A. Minteer ...
    The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become captivated by a narrative of heroic conservation efforts. A range of technological and policy strategies, from the traditional, such as ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Wild Visions

    Wilderness as Image and Idea

    by Ben A Minteer, Mark Klett, Stephen J. Pyne ...
    A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over timeOur ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable “place apart” to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Fall of the Wild

    Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

    by Ben A. Minteer ...
    The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become captivated by a narrative of heroic conservation efforts. A range of technological and policy strategies, from the traditional, such as ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • After Preservation

    Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans

    Edited by Ben A. Minteer, Stephen J. Pyne ...
    From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to encircle nature with our protection, to keep it apart, pristine, walled against the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Values and Public Interest

    Counterbalancing Economic Individualism

    by Barry Bozeman, Mary K. Feeney, Ben Minteer ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct theoretical challenge to the "utility of economic individualism," the prevailing political ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heart of the Wild

    Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future

    by Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Eileen Crist, Martha L. Crump, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog, Emma Marris, Kathleen Dean Moore, Gary Paul Nabhan, Peter H. Raven, Christopher J. Schell, Richard Shine, Kyle Whyte ...
    Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts.These engaging essays present nuanced and often ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • A Wilder Kingdom

    Rethinking Nature in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond

    Edited by Ben A. Minteer, Dr. Harry Greene ...
    Zoos have always had a troubled relationship to what is considered the “real” wild. Even the most immersive and naturalistic zoos, critics maintain, are inherently contrived and inauthentic environments. Zoo animals’ diet, care, and reproduction are under pervasive human control, with natural phenomena like disease and death kept mostly hidden from public view. Furthermore, despite their growing ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Wilder Kingdom

    Rethinking Nature in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond

    Edited by Ben A. Minteer, Dr. Harry Greene ...
    Zoos have always had a troubled relationship to what is considered the “real” wild. Even the most immersive and naturalistic zoos, critics maintain, are inherently contrived and inauthentic environments. Zoo animals’ diet, care, and reproduction are under pervasive human control, with natural phenomena like disease and death kept mostly hidden from public view. Furthermore, despite their growing ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Ark and Beyond

    The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation

    Edited by Ben A. Minteer, Jane Maienschein, James P. Collins ...
    Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gathering a diverse, multi-institutional collection of leading zoo and aquarium scientists as well as historians, philosophers, biologists, and social ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reconstructing Conservation

    Finding Common Ground

    Edited by Ben A. Minteer, Robert E. Manning ...
    In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocative questions about ideas of wilderness and the commitments and strategies of the contemporary environmental movement. While these critiques challenged some cherished and widely held beliefs -- and ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Nature in Common?

    Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy

    Edited by Ben Minteer ...
    This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: Should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well being? Specifically, the fourteen essays collected here discuss the "convergence hypothesis" put ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton

    Edited by Sahotra Sarkar, Ben A. Minteer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a richly interdisciplinary assessment of the thought and work of Bryan Norton, one of most innovative and influential environmental philosophers of the past thirty years. In landmark works such as Toward Unity Among Environmentalists and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management, Norton charted a new and highly productive course for an applied environmental ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD