National Parks: Rights and the Common Good
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
In an era when federal ownership and control of natural resources is under suspicion, conservation trusts have emerged into the policy limelight after more than a century in the shadows. This book asks whether conservation trusts can live up to their promise as an efficient and responsive environmental protection policy.
Through a series of ethnographic studies that range from Papua New Guinea to Siberia, Brazil to Namibia, Ethnographies of Conservation argues that the problem is not the disappearance of “pristine nature” or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, critical attention would be better turned on discourses of “primitiveness” and “pristine nature,” so prevalent within conservation ideology.
First published in 1933, The People’s Forests makes a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation’s forests in the face of generations of devastating practices.
Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people.
In Hanford: A Conversation About Nuclear Waste and Cleanup, Roy Gephart takes us on a journey through a world of facts, values, conflicts, and choices facing the most complex environmental cleanup project in the United States, the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Site.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.