An Ecological Concept of Wilderness.
Many share the conviction that wilderness should play a special role in any environmental ethic, even though the concept of wilderness remains contentious. Ever since it has been recognized that the traditional concept of a wilderness as a region ''untrammeled'' by human beings has a number of intra...
| Publicado en: | Ethics & the Environment Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 25 - 45 |
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Indiana University Press
Spring2012
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