The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
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.
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.
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.
This political biography of Wayne Aspinall is an insightful account of the political, financial, and personal variables that affect the course by which water resource legislation is conceived, supported, and implemented—a book that is essential to understanding the history and future of water in the West.
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.