Ben A. Minteer holds the Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair at Arizona State University, where he is a professor of environmental ethics and conservation in the School of Life Sciences. He has authored or edited many books, including
The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America (2006) and
The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation (2018).
8 E-böcker av Ben A. Minteer
Ben A. Minteer: The Fall of the Wild
The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of acceler …
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€28.99
Sahotra Sarkar & Ben A. Minteer: A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton
This book provides a richly interdisciplinary assessment of the thought and work of Bryan Norton, one of most innovative and influential environmental philosophers of the past thirty years. In landma …
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€96.29
Minteer Ben A. Minteer & Manning Robert E. Manning: Reconstructing Conservation
In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocativ …
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€64.44
Ben A. Minteer: Landscape of Reform
A study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism-as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lewis Mumford, Benton Mac Kaye, and Aldo Leopold-and how it can inform a new, civic-minded envi …
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€77.13
Ben A. Minteer & Harry Greene: A Wilder Kingdom
Zoos have always had a troubled relationship to what is considered the “real” wild. Even the most immersive and naturalistic zoos, critics maintain, are inherently contrived and inauthentic environme …
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€31.99
Ben A. Minteer & Jonathan B. Losos: The Heart of the Wild
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human world The Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to …
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€28.99
James P. Collins & Jane Maienschein: Ark and Beyond
Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, come …
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€48.48
Ben A. Minteer & Stephen J. Pyne: After Preservation
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Gen …
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€28.24
