Lee, Keekok, "Beauty for Ever?"
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.
The history of the Swiss National Park is told for the first time in Creating Wilderness. The deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park, as implemented in Yellowstone, was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.