Environmental Politics And The Creation Of A Dream

Author : Harold C. Jordahl
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299281930
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream written by Harold C. Jordahl and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is a breathtakingly beautiful archipelago of twenty-two islands in Lake Superior, just off the tip of northern Wisconsin. For years, the national park has been a favorite destination for tourists and locals alike, but the remarkable story behind its creation is little known. In Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream, Harold Jordahl, one of the primary advocates for designating the islands as a national park, discloses the full story behind the effort to preserve their natural beauty for posterity. He describes in detail the political and bureaucratic complexities of the national lakeshore campaign, augmented by his own personal recollections and those of such prominent figures as Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and President John F. Kennedy. Writing in collaboration with Annie Booth, Jordahl recounts how activists, legislators, media, local residents, and other players shaped the islands’ future establishment as a national park.

Author : Christopher J. Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136023127
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked written by Christopher J. Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three political regimes and across four case studies of projects delivered by various national or international development agencies in independent East Timor. Employing an original classificatory framework for kinds of approaches to development – coercive orders, mandated orders, negotiated orders – the book covers the plantation-centred development of Portuguese Timor as a European colony and the integration-oriented development of ‘Timor Timur’ as Indonesia’s 27th province. It examines the neoliberal ‘democratic’ development of East Timor (or Timor-Leste) in the current context of state and nation-building, before drawing on case studies to investigate how development proceeds as a negotiation between authoritative state, non-state and international actors and local people who need to adapt development and conservation projects to suit their lived realities. By using the history of East Timor to explore how particular modes of operationalising development interventions are intimately intertwined with the broader political system, this book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Development Studies, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies.

Author : Sarah E. Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674988345
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Remains written by Sarah E. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1,600 Americans who took part in the Vietnam War are still missing and presumed dead. Sarah Wagner tells the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. Today's forensic science can identify remains from mere traces, raising expectations for repatriation and forcing a new reckoning with the toll of America's most fraught war.

Author : Paul Wapner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518791
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Through the End of Nature written by Paul Wapner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance. Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now everywhere and all efforts to “preserve” nature require extensive human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is no such thing as nature itself—only our own conceptions of it. One person's endangered species is another's dinner or source of income. In Living Through the End of Nature, Paul Wapner probes the meaning of environmentalism in a postnature age. Wapner argues that we can neither go back to a preindustrial Elysium nor forward to a technological utopia. He proposes a third way that takes seriously the breached boundary between humans and nature and charts a co-evolutionary path in which environmentalists exploit the tension between naturalism and mastery to build a more sustainable, ecologically vibrant, and socially just world. Beautifully written and thoughtfully argued, Living Through the End of Nature provides a powerful vision for environmentalism's future

Author : David Kinkela
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807869307
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DDT and the American Century written by David Kinkela and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides. In DDT and the American Century, David Kinkela chronicles the use of DDT around the world from 1941 to the present with a particular focus on the United States, which has played a critical role in encouraging the global use of the pesticide. Kinkela's study offers a unique approach to understanding both this contentious chemical and modern environmentalism in an international context.

Author : Walter A. Rosenbaum
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1544358253
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Politics and Policy written by Walter A. Rosenbaum and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter A. Rosenbaum’s classic Environmental Politics and Policy provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. The first half of the book sets needed context and describes the policy process while the second half covers specific environmental issues such as air and water; toxic and hazardous substances; energy; and a global policymaking chapter focused on climate change and trans-boundary politics. The eleventh edition includes updates on the Trump administration's initiatives and controversies with regard to environmental policy, offering the currency and relevancy needed for any environmental politics course.

Author : Eve E. Buckley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634317
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil written by Eve E. Buckley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices.

Author : Phillip F. Cramer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Environmental Politics written by Phillip F. Cramer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cramer provides a window into the world of radical environmentalism and the political process. He examines how deep ecology evolved, how its ideas influence our lives, and how it impacts our laws. The book begins with an overview of deep ecology and traces its history in American political thought. Cramer then looks at the tactics employed by radical environmentalists and the relationship formed between activists and their political counterparts. He explains the difference between what deep ecology ultimately wants and what it strives for on a daily basis. Federal environmental legislation and congressional testimony are analyzed for trends, and media coverage of radical environmentalism is also examined. Cramer provides the first comprehensive look at the impact of deep ecology and radical environmentalism on American environmental politics and law. This book will be invaluable to scholars and researchers of contemporary American politics and law, environmental studies, and the media.

Author : Ted Nordhaus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618658251
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break Through written by Ted Nordhaus and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Kevin Hillstrom
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Environmental Policy and Politics written by Kevin Hillstrom and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new reference shows readers the many ways throughout American history in which environmental concerns have intersected with issues of energy production and consumption, government regulation, private property rights, economic growth, and lifestyle choices.