Conservation movement

This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being. The author advocates for a new approach to environmental and sustainability education, that of rethinking the Western way of knowing and being and engendering a frank discussion about the societal elements that are generating climate, environmental, economic, and social issues.

Building a razor-sharp critique of current conservation proposals and their contradictions, Büscher and Fletcher argue that the Anthropocene challenge demands something bigger, better and bolder. Something truly revolutionary. They propose convivial conservation as the way forward. This approach goes beyond protected areas and faith in markets to incorporate the needs of humans and nonhumans within integrated and just landscapes.

Die Naturschutzbewegung ist seit rund 100 Jahren breitenwirksam. Der Österreichische Naturschutzbund betrachtet sich – mit zunehmender Anzahl von Schwesterorganisationen – von Anfang an als impulsgebender Motor. In den frühen Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts galten Arten- und Landschaftsschutz vordringlich.

Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated?