Nature Conservation in the 21st Century: Designing the Future Between Change and Preservation

“A revolution in conservation is brewing. This is not necessarily an event that makes everything different. Rather, a growing urgency and pressure are building towards radical change.”¹ With these words, the sociologists Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher open their book The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene (2020). Without dwelling on the term revolution itself, I take up the question of what this radical change entails. What, or who, is meant to change, and in which direction? This article seeks to contribute to that discussion.²