The Problem Orientation: ENVS 5720/PSCI 7026

Week 5

PART I: VALUES and GOALS

Tuesday, February 12

  • reading summary #4 due by 4PM Monday via email

CASE #1: Conceptions of nature and wilderness

  • - 5:30-6:30 pm with Joe Bryan (Assistant Professor, Geography) [invited]

Cronon, W. (1998) The trouble with wilderness, or getting back to the wrong nature, in The Great Wilderness Debate, (Callicott, J.B. and M.P. Nelson, eds.), University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, pp. 471-499.

Worster, D. (1997) The wilderness of history, Wild Earth Fall, pp. 9-13.

Proctor, J. D. (1998) The social construction of nature: relativist accusations, pragmatist and critical realist responses, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88(3), pp. 352-376.

Guha, R. (1998). Deep ecology revisited, in The Great Wilderness Debate, (Callicott, J.B. and M.P. Nelson, eds.), University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, pp. 271-279.

Naess, A. (1998) The Third World, wilderness, and deep ecology, in The Great Wilderness Debate, (Callicott, J.B. and M.P. Nelson, eds.), University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, pp. 280-292.

Waller, D.M. (1998) Getting back to the right nature: a reply to Cronon’s ‘the trouble with wilderness’, in The Great Wilderness Debate, (Callicott, J.B. and M.P. Nelson, eds.), University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, pp. 540-567.