Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.

• Foreword / by Char Miller -- Preface to the fifth edition : fifty years in the wilderness -- Prologue : the condition of wilderness -- Old World roots of opinion -- A wilderness condition -- The romantic wilderness -- The American wilderness -- Henry David Thoreau : philosopher -- Preserve the wilderness! -- Wilderness preserved -- John Muir : publicizer -- The wilderness cult -- Hetch Hetchy -- Aldo Leopold : prophet -- Decisions for permanence -- Toward a philosophy of wilderness -- Alaska -- The irony of victory -- The international perspective -- Epilogue to the fifth edition : island civilization.

• A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective. 

Ämnesord

Naturvård  (sao)

Nybyggarliv  (sao)

Naturfilosofi  (sao)

Humanekologi  (sao)

Nature conservation  -- United States. (LCSH)

Frontier and pioneer life  -- United States. (LCSH)

Nature  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature  -- United States. (LCSH)

Nature  -- Effect of human beings on -- United States. (LCSH)

Human ecology  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Values  -- United States. (LCSH)

Civilization.  (fast)

Ecology.  (fast)

Frontier and pioneer life.  (fast)

Human ecology.  (fast)

Nature conservation.  (fast)

Philosophy of nature.  (fast)

Values.  (fast)

Naturphilosophie.  (gnd)

Wildnis.  (gnd)

Naturraum.  (gnd)

Humanökologie.  (gnd)

Umweltbewusstsein.  (gnd)

Philosophy of nature.  (idszbzes)

Nature  -- Effect of human beings on. (fast)

Nature  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Nature and civilization  -- United States. (idszbzes)

Wilderness areas  -- United States. (idszbzes)

Nature conservation  -- United States. (idszbzes)

Naturen  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Human ecology  (LCSH)

Nature conservation  (LCSH)

Frontier and pioneer life  (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States  -- Environmental conditions -- History. (LCSH)

United States  -- Civilization. (LCSH)

United States.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

E169.1 (LCC)

GE150 (LCC)

333.78/20973 (DDC)

Odgm (kssb/8 (machine generated))