Land Is Our Community

Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium

AvRoberta L. Millstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment. Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical obligations beyond the purely human to include what he variously termed the “land community” or the “biotic community”—communities of interdependent humans, nonhuman animals, plants, soils, and waters, understood collectively. This philosophy has been extremely influential in environmental ethics as well as conservation biology and related fields. Using an approach grounded in environmental ethics and the history and philosophy of science, Roberta L. Millstein reexamines Leopold’s land ethic in light of contemporary ecology. Despite the enormous influence of the land ethic, it has sometimes been dismissed as either empirically out of date or ethically flawed. Millstein argues that these dismissals are based on problematic readings of Leopold’s ideas. In this book, she provides new interpretations of the central concepts underlying the land ethic: interdependence, land community, and land health. She also offers a fresh take on of his argument for extending our ethics to include land communities as well as Leopold-inspired guidelines for how the land ethic can steer conservation and restoration policy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:286 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226834481

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Roberta L. Millstein is professor emerit in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.

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“Millstein presents a compelling case that Leopold’s land ethic, properly interpreted, offers ‘the environmental ethic of our time.’ She demonstrates that her novel reading of the land ethic is exegetically accurate, consistent with current science, and pertinent to debates in the philosophy of ecology, environmental ethics, and conservation policy. Additionally, the book is highly accessible, engaging, and relatively concise. Overall, The Land is Our Community is an absolute tour de force.”

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PrefaceChapter One: Reinterpreting LeopoldChapter Two: InterdependenceChapter Three: Land CommunitiesChapter Four: Land HealthChapter Five: Arguing for the Land EthicChapter Six: Policy ImplicationsReferencesIndex

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