Half Wild

People, Dogs, and Environmental Policy

Dave Dempsey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

114 Seiten

2022
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-443-4 (ISBN)

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Humans and canines have been cohabitating for centuries, straddling a boundary that allows us to live together within and across our species. In this empathetic volume, author Dave Dempsey explores this life on the border, the overlapping planes between humans and the nonhuman world that lead to both magnificent creation and appalling destruction. Dempsey’s forty-year career as an environmentalist gives this book a nuanced context that could only be afforded by someone who has lived a half-wild existence himself, both defending and expanding the range of protections afforded to other species. As the former environmental advisor to Michigan Governor James J. Blanchard, Dempsey’s recollections also provide a unique perspective on the history of environmental policy, ruminating on how such policy reflects the way we understand ourselves in relation to the environment. Through vignettes that recall personal stories and those that outline historical events that influenced policymaking, Dempsey calls attention to the philosophical question of how we as humans relate to animals and our environment.

DAVE DEMPSEY is the author and coauthor of thirteen nonfiction books and received the Michigan Author Award from the Michigan Library Association and the Michigan Center for the Book in 2009. He is a former policy advisor to the International Joint Commission and former member of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.

Contents Preface Dumpsite The Moose Drop Dee Dee Wilderness The Bird of Peace Pudd’n Mortality Landfill in the Sky The Fight over Flowers Jones Politics and Fish Spayed and Neutered Dude Toxic Shock Suckers Watershed Living A Piece of the Soul Good Ancestors Fitz Coda Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	7
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-61186-443-7 / 1611864437
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-443-4 / 9781611864434
Zustand	Neuware