Abstract

Review of the first and only existing collection devoted to consideration of links between nature’s beauty and reasons for its preservation. The book collects work by leading aestheticians in the analytic tradition, sourced from top journals in their respective areas. Hoping to inspire potential readers unfamiliar with environmental aesthetics to have a closer look, I make clear what I see as some of the editors’ intentions in organizing the volume as they have, give an idea of the main theoretical views on which most of the argumentative action centers, discuss some of the volume’s highlights, and along the way offer a few thoughts about the way in which the debates in preservationist-inspired environmental aesthetics have so far proceeded. Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 251-257, June 2011