Places of quiet beauty : parks, preserves, and environmentalism /

Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conard, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1997.
Colección:American land and life series.
Temas:
Nature conservation > Iowa > History.
Parks > Iowa > History.
Natural areas > Iowa > History.
Environmentalism > Iowa > History.
Nature > Conservation > Iowa > Histoire.
Réserves naturelles > Iowa > Histoire.
Environnementalisme > Iowa > Histoire.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Environmentalism.
Natural areas.
Nature conservation.
Parks.
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Ecology.
Iowa.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Wayne Franklin
  • Prologue
  • Conservation Parks
  • Pammel's Way
  • Reshaping Park and Conservation Goals in the 1920s
  • Toward a Resource Agency: The Twenty-five-Year Conservation Plan
  • Seeking Balance
  • The Center Does Not Hold
  • The Lightning Rod Decades
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: State Lands in Parks and Preserves, 1918-1996.

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