{"product_id":"rambunctious-garden-saving-nature-in-a-post-wild-world","title":"Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Emma Marris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloomsbury USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8\/20\/2013, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781608194544\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the \"rambunctious garden,\" a hybrid of wild nature and human management.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRambunctious Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Potentially the most optimistic and controversial work about the future of nature to appear in years.” — \u003ci\u003eGrist.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ms Marris's book is an insightful analysis of the thinking that informs nature conservation.” — \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What may be the most important book about the environment in a generation.” —\u003ci\u003e Idaho Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Marris \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning journalist whose writing on science and the environment has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHigh Country News\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications, including \u003ci\u003eBest American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. She is based in Klamath Falls, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52300850037019,"sku":"Rambunctious Garden","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/81_U_bIT4yL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780689729","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/rambunctious-garden-saving-nature-in-a-post-wild-world","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}