"A political and intellectual history of natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century--a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among policymakers, and changing ideas conservation. An account of new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, and animals in modern environmentalism"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
An auspicious setting -- Origins of gridlock -- Upheaval : the environmental movement in transition -- An intellectual revolution -- Forests and owls -- Conservation on trial : the Clinton years -- Land conservation, circa 2000 -- A perilous course : twenty- first century conservation -- American conservation : a progress report.
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