Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
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 interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
Imperfect Balance offers a balance of accessible writing and scholarly approaches to understanding the Western Hemisphere’s incredibly diverse landscapes, the human forces that shaped them, and the impact of this interaction on sustained human settlement.
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 second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.