Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

Carson, R. (1962), Silent Spring (any edition). (Introduction, preface and chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 15, 17)

Maxwell, G. (1960), Ring of Bright Water (any edition).

Thoreau, H. D. (1893), Walden, or Life in the woods (any edition).

Isenberg, A. (2000), The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. Cambridge University Press.

Coates, P. (1998), Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times. Polity Press.

Online resources

Anker, P. (2003), «The Philosopher's Cabin and the Household of Nature.» In: Ethics, Place and Environment 6, no. 2, pp. 131-41.

Weiner, D. W. (2005), «A Death-Defying Attempt to Articulate a Coherent Definition of Environmental History.» In: Environmental History 10, no. 3, pp. 404-20.

Articles in compendium

Callicott, B. J. (1987), «The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic.» In: Companion to a Sand County Almanac (ed.: J. B. Callicott). Madison: The University of Winsconsin Press, pp. 186-217.

Clare, J. (1990), from «The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare.» In: The Norton Book of Nature Writing (eds.: J. Elder and R. Finch). New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 123-28.

Cronon, W. (1996), «The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.» In: Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (ed.: W. Cronon). New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 69-90.

Fox, W. (2008), «Deep Ecology: A New Philosophy of our Time?» In: Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (eds.: A. Light and H. Rolston III). Malden: Blackwell, pp. 252-61.

Gaard, G. and Gruen, L. (2008),«Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health.» In: Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (eds.: A. Light and H. Rolston III). Malden: Blackwell, pp. 276-93.

Guha, R. (1999), «Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique.» In: Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Næss and the Progress of Ecophilosophy (eds.: A. Brennan and N. Witoszek). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 313-24.

Leopold, A. (1990), from «A Sand County Almanac.» In: The Norton Book of Nature Writing (eds.: J. Elder and R. Finch). New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 401-21.

Næss, A. (1999), «Comments on Guha's Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique.» In: Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Næss and the Progress of Ecophilosophy (eds.: A. Brennan and N. Witoszek). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 325-33.

Næss, A. (2008), «Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World.» In: Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Næss (eds.: A. Drengson and B. Devall). Berkeley: Counterpoint, pp. 81-96.

Næss, A. (2008), «The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects.» In: Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (eds.: A. Light and H. Rolston III). Malden: Blackwell, pp. 262-74.

Neumann, R. P. (1998), «Protecting the Fauna of the Empire: The Evolution of National Parks in Tanzania.» In: Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 122-56.

Roosevelt, T. (1998), «The American Wilderness: Wilderness Hunters and Wilderness Game.» In: The Great New Wilderness Debate (eds.: J. B. Callicott and M. P. Nelson). Athens: The University of Georgia Press, pp. 63-74.

Ruskin, J. (1990), from «Modern Painters.» In: The Norton Book of Nature Writing (eds.: J. Elder and R. Finch). New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 233-38.

Syse, K. V. L. (2009), «Ideal and Imaginary Landscapes.» In: From Land Use to Landscape: A Cultural History of Conflict and Consensus in Argyll : 1945-2005. Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, pp. 207-24.

White, G. (1990), from «The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne.» In: The Norton Book of Nature Writing (eds.: J. Elder and R. Finch). New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 33-53.

Available in Fronter

Neumann, R. P. (1998), «Landscapes of Nature, Terrains of Resistance.» In: Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15-50.