Who Owns the Environment?
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
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.
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.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
Tthe first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe highlights creative solutions being implemented in Central and East Central Europe to overcome environmental problems and ensure sustainable development.
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples presents case studies on the effects of modern conservation projects on local and indigenous populations across the world, and highlights lessons to be learnt for sustainable development.