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The Problem Orientation: ENVS 5720/PSCI 7026

Week 6

PART I: VALUES and GOALS

Tuesday, February 17

  • reading summary #4 due by 9:30AM Monday via email

CASE #1: conceptions of nature & wilderness

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.