This book traces the rise of Republican challenges to environmental laws in the United States and shows what they mean for the future of environmentalism in the political arena.

Taking a historical, cross-cultural, and trans-disciplinary perspective, this e-book includes some of the most recent references in the scholarly and policy literature on food, agriculture, environment, and livelihoods. The photos and the embedded video clips, animations, and audio recordings show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fishers, food workers, urban farmers, and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, highlighting the importance of locally controlled food systems to sustain people and nature in a diversity of rural and urban contexts.

The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.

In his work, Francaviglia proposes “to tell the story of how the Great Basin’s environment resonates in the spiritual lives of all its people”.