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Book Review Essay: Rethinking Nature

Book Review Essay: Rethinking Nature Book Review Essay RETHINKING NATURE Foundations for a Revitalized Environmentalism MARK LUCCARELLI University of Oslo Thomas Rain Crowe. Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Terry Gifford. Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays in Postpastoral Practice. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006. Bill McKibben. Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. As I write, the United Nations Environmental Program’s (UNEP) Intergov- ernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its much-awaited assessment of the human impact on climate change. Scientific evidence now exists to conclude that the cause of an accelerating process of global warming is “very likely” anthro- pogenic (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007). Perhaps we are now ready for a major effort in environmental management: implementation of interna- tional agreements to reduce carbon emissions, establishment of carbon dioxide markets that actually work, and serious pursuit of technological modernization in line with sustainability. Though this will take international cooperation and may be greatly supported by the global civil sphere, the necessary laws must come from the national level, as UNEP head Achim Steiner recently admitted http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Book Review Essay: Rethinking Nature

Luccarelli, Mark
Organization & Environment , Volume 20 (2): 6 – Jun 1, 2007
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Book Review Essay RETHINKING NATURE Foundations for a Revitalized Environmentalism MARK LUCCARELLI University of Oslo Thomas Rain Crowe. Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Terry Gifford. Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays in Postpastoral Practice. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006. Bill McKibben. Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. As I write, the United Nations Environmental Program’s (UNEP) Intergov- ernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its much-awaited assessment of the human impact on climate change. Scientific evidence now exists to conclude that the cause of an accelerating process of global warming is “very likely” anthro- pogenic (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007). Perhaps we are now ready for a major effort in environmental management: implementation of interna- tional agreements to reduce carbon emissions, establishment of carbon dioxide markets that actually work, and serious pursuit of technological modernization in line with sustainability. Though this will take international cooperation and may be greatly supported by the global civil sphere, the necessary laws must come from the national level, as UNEP head Achim Steiner recently admitted

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Published: Jun 1, 2007

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