Mick Smith, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, has a new book, co-authored with PhD student Jason Young: Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology.

From : 鈥Does the Earth Care? offers an Earthly alternative to either cold realism or alienated despair in the face of impending ecological disaster. It outlines a 鈥減rovisional ecology,鈥 drawing on a variety of literary and philosophical sources from Richard Jefferies and Robert Macfarlane to Martin Heidegger and Gaia theory.鈥