Natures running wild: a social-ecological perspective on wilderness

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Natures running wild: a social-ecological perspective on wilderness. / Hofmeister, Sabine.
In: Nature and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3, 01.2009, p. 293-315.

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title = "Natures running wild: a social-ecological perspective on wilderness",
abstract = "This article is based on the thesis that wilderness as a cultural value emerges where it has been lost as a geographical and material phenomenon. In Europe the idea of wilderness experienced a surprising upswing at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, with wilderness tours, wilderness education, and self-experience trips into {"}wilderness{"} becoming widely established. Also, protection of {"}wilderness areas{"} which refers to such different phenomena as large forests, wild gardens, and urban wild is very much in demand. Against this background, the article looks into the material-ecological and symbolic-cultural senses of {"}wilderness{"} in the context of changing social relations to nature. Three forms of wilderness are distinguished. Adopting a socio-ecological perspective, the article builds on contemporary risk discourse.",
keywords = "Environmental planning, Nature conservation, Nature-society relations, Reproductivity, Social ecology, Sustainable development",
author = "Sabine Hofmeister",
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