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Wilderness And Epistemic Wildness, John T. Stanfield
Wilderness And Epistemic Wildness, John T. Stanfield
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The traditional concept of wilderness was a product of the time out of which it came. Times have changed. The social context of conservation, how humans affect nature, and scientific understanding of how ecosystems function have all shifted in ways that make the wilderness idea problematic. The values that people found in wilderness are still relevant, however. It is the way that they are tied together in the concept of wilderness that has become a problem.
I propose a revised concept of wilderness that meets the concerns of critics of wilderness, and accounts for the tension between the wild and …