The landscape of reform : civic pragmatism and environmental thought in America /

In The Landscape of Reform Ben Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century: Liberty Hyde Bailey, a forgotte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Minteer, Ben A., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Environmentalism > United States.
Environmental ethics > United States.
Éthique de l'environnement > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmental ethics
Environmentalism
Umweltbewusstsein
Umweltschutz
Umweltethik
United States
USA
ENVIRONMENT/General
HUMANITIES/History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Civic pragmatism and American environmental reform
  • Nature study, rural progressivism, and holy earth : the forgotten contribution of Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Lewis Mumford's pragmatic conservationism
  • Wilderness and the "wise province" : Benton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail
  • Aldo Leopold, land health, and the public interest
  • The third way today : natural systems agriculture and new urbanism
  • Conclusion : environmental ethics as civic philosophy.

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