FirstCity
Welcome to First City University College Library iPortal | library@firstcity.edu.my | +603-7735 2088 (Ext. 519)

Going wild :

Dizard, Jan E., 1940-

Going wild : hunting, animal rights, and the contested meaning of nature / Jan E. Dizard. - Rev. and expanded ed. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index.

What's Wild? -- Let Nature Be -- Taking Care of Nature -- Sport, Management, or Murder: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Modern Hunting -- Nature's Rights and Human Responsibility -- Constructing Nature -- Stewards or Curators? Caring for Nature (1999). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

"First published in 1994, Going Wild offers a probing examination of the ways in which different conceptions of nature shape our responses to specific environmental issues. In this revised edition, Jan E. Dizard adds a thoughtful and extensive new chapter, updating the controversy over the state-managed deer hunt at the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts and placing it in a broader national context."--Jacket.


English.

0585268762 9780585268767 9781122055352 1122055358




Animal rights--Massachusetts--Quabbin Reservation.
Deer hunting--Moral and ethical aspects--Massachusetts--Quabbin Reservation.
Forest management--Moral and ethical aspects--Massachusetts--Quabbin Reservation.
Wildlife management--Moral and ethical aspects--Massachusetts--Quabbin Reservation.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Biological Diversity.
NATURE--Animals--Wildlife.
Animal rights.
Deer hunting--Moral and ethical aspects.
Forest management--Moral and ethical aspects.
Wildlife management--Moral and ethical aspects.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Social Welfare & Social Work - General.


Massachusetts--Quabbin Reservation.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HV4765.M4 / D593 1999eb

333.95/965