Keeping the Wild Against the Domestication of Earth /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wuerthner, George (Editor), Crist, Eileen (Editor), Butler, Tom (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Ecology.; Animal ecology.; Nature conservation.; Nature Conservation.; Animal Ecology.

Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between...