Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Carl J. Goebel ◽  
Thomas Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Aldo Leopold

A Fierce Green Fire

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marybeth Lorbiecki
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
Ecological Vision ◽  
As Species ◽  
Wilderness Areas ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect companion to reading his ever popular A Sand County Almanac. Winning numerous awards, this comprehensive account of his life story is dynamic and readable, written in the context of the history of American conservation and illustrated with historic photographs. Marybeth Lorbiecki has now enriched A Fierce Green Fire in a way no other biography on Leopold has, adding numerous chapters on the ripple effects of his ideas, books, ecological vision, land ethic, and Shack, as well as of the ecological contributions of his children, graduate students, contemporary scholars, and organizations--and the wilderness lands he helped preserve. Lorbiecki weaves these stories and factual information into the biography in a compelling way that keeps both lay and academic readers engaged. In the introduction to this edition, Lorbiecki makes it clear how much better our lives are because Leopold lived and why today we so radically need what he left us to bring about paradigm shifts in our ethical, economic, and cultural thinking. Instead of losing relevance, Leopold's legacy has gained ever more necessity and traction in the face of contemporary national and world challenges, such as species loss and climate change. Even the phenological studies he started at as a hobby are proving valuable, showing the climatic shifts that have occurred at the Shack lands since the 1930s, recognized by the plants and animals.

Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Imaginary

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Dicks ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Aldo Leopold

Ecological Restoration: Carving a Niche for Humans in the Classic Landscape

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Working Relationship ◽  
Healthy Relationship

Environmentalism has made much of the idea of community since Aldo Leopold proposed it as the crucial metaphor defining a healthy relationship between humans and the rest of nature. Community, however, far from being the solution to our environmental problems, is actually just a useful way of framing the problem. How, for example, do you form a working relationship with an ecologically obsolete system that owes nothing to you? The answer: You commit yourself to its restoration, cultivating a studied indifference to your own interests—a practice the author terms "holistic restoration."

scholarly journals Uexküll's Kompositionslehre and Leopold's "land ethic" in dialogue. On the concept of meaning

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Gens
Keyword(s):  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Land Ethic ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
Environmental Thought

Uexküll's famous umwelt theory, which is simultaneously a theory of meaning, remains almost unknown in American environmental thought. The purpose of this article is to create a dialogue between the umwelt theory – a source of inspiration for biosemiotics – and one of the major figures of the environmental thought, namely Aldo Leopold. The interest of this dialogue lies in the fact that the environmental thought has much to gain by relying on Uexküll's theory of meaning and, conversely, that Leopold's land ethic is likely to extend Uexküll's thought in terms of ethics.

Reflection V

2021 ◽  
pp. 314-319
Author(s):  
J. Baird Callicott
Keyword(s):  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
James Lovelock ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
New Look

The year was 1979. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, a book by James Lovelock (1919–), was published to much fanfare.1 To much less, “Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest,” an essay by Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), was also published2—posthumously, exactly three decades after Leopold’s celebrated environmental classic ...

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