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“eileen crist”

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  • Abundant Earth

    Toward an Ecological Civilization

    by Eileen Crist ...
    In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes—a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, expanding economies and international trade, and spreading infrastructures and incursions upon wildlands—she ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cohabiting Earth

    Seeking a Bright Future for All Life

    Edited by Joe Gray, Eileen Crist ...
    Promotes a path of harmony between humanity and Earth by presenting a vision that is comprehensive in scope and offering a positive new identity for humanity.The eco-catastrophes that we are witnessing today starkly demonstrate how the interests of the Earth's currently dominant species are in lockstep with those of nature's wider whole. Simply stated, humans and the more-than-human world have a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • 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

    $19.49 USD

  • Gaia in Turmoil

    Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis

    Edited by Eileen Crist, H. Bruce Rinker ...
    Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.Gaian theory, which holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably bound to form a self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in light of increasing concerns about global climate ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Keeping the Wild

    Against the Domestication of Earth

    Edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler ...
    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 advocates of rewilding and those who accept and even celebrate a “post-wild” world is arguably the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Protecting the Wild

    Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

    Edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler ...
    Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. Conservation, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • Ignoring Nature No More

    The Case for Compassionate Conservation

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  • Placing Animals

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  • Living Through the End of Nature

    The Future of American Environmentalism

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  • Ground-Truthing

    Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC's North Coast

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    A Critical Introduction

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