Rethinking Wilderness

by Mark Woods

The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 30, 2017

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Reviews

[Jerrid Kruse · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book clearly outlines critiques against wilderness and wilderness preservation, but the rebuttals that are supposed to be the intent of the book are not as clear and sometimes make a bit of an emotional appeal or simply take issue with a critique’s definitions in order to dismiss the critique. That said, the book makes many important points, raises important demarcation issues, and is well supported by relevant literature.