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Book Review: Loving animals: Toward a new animal advocacy

Book Review: Loving animals: Toward a new animal advocacy 102 Organization & Environment 25(1) black-boxed and outside the bounds of his analysis. As well, this book would have benefited from a more explicit problematization of intellectual conceptions of these forests over the course of the past 150 years. Scientific understanding of the role of fire and other abiotic factors on the assemblage of biological species has changed significantly with the development of the disci- pline of ecology. Fire is now recognized as being an important element in maintaining long-term forest stability, but in earlier decades both industry and government often understood fire as an interruption of that very stability. Industry attitudes, too, have changed over time. Corporate fire prevention was closely tied to reforestation and long-term prospects for economic and ecological stability of the regional lumber industry. Incorporating explicit considerations of these evolving conceptions of forest and fire would have strengthened Hudson’s case. Fire Management in the American West is a welcome addition to recent interdisciplinary revi- sions to the simplistic story that journalists, environmentalists, and politicians have told for many years. Forest Service fire policy did not evolve linearly, nor was it created in isolation from other stakeholders. Hudson’s training as a sociologist leads to a theoretical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Book Review: Loving animals: Toward a new animal advocacy

Gerber, Lisa
Organization & Environment , Volume 25 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2012
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© The Author(s) 2012
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1086-0266
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1552-7417
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10.1177/1086026612444438
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102 Organization & Environment 25(1) black-boxed and outside the bounds of his analysis. As well, this book would have benefited from a more explicit problematization of intellectual conceptions of these forests over the course of the past 150 years. Scientific understanding of the role of fire and other abiotic factors on the assemblage of biological species has changed significantly with the development of the disci- pline of ecology. Fire is now recognized as being an important element in maintaining long-term forest stability, but in earlier decades both industry and government often understood fire as an interruption of that very stability. Industry attitudes, too, have changed over time. Corporate fire prevention was closely tied to reforestation and long-term prospects for economic and ecological stability of the regional lumber industry. Incorporating explicit considerations of these evolving conceptions of forest and fire would have strengthened Hudson’s case. Fire Management in the American West is a welcome addition to recent interdisciplinary revi- sions to the simplistic story that journalists, environmentalists, and politicians have told for many years. Forest Service fire policy did not evolve linearly, nor was it created in isolation from other stakeholders. Hudson’s training as a sociologist leads to a theoretical

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