The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopolds Envir. Millstein**

The University of Chicago Press

The Land Is Our CommunityAldo Leopolds Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium\nAuthor(s): Roberta L. Millstein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226834481, 978-0226834481\nSynopsis\nA contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.\n Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical obligations beyond the purely human to include what he variously termed the land community or the biotic communitycommunities of interdependent humans, nonhuman animals, plants, soils, and waters, understood collectively. This philosophy has been extremely influential in environmental ethics as well as conservation bio.