Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
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.
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.
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.
Nature’s Management is a collection of early nineteenth century agricultural writings by Edmund Ruffin, topically arranged to highlight Virginia’s fence enclosure laws, municipal public health measures to combat malaria, wetlands drainage and reclamation, and observations of the geology, botany, and culture of Virginia and the Carolinas.
The eighteen chapters of Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers examine geological and geomorphological controls on river and stream characteristics and dynamics, biological aspects of river systems in the region, and the application of fluvial geomorphology, civil engineering, riparian ecology, and aquatic ecology in efforts to restore Puget Sound Rivers