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Natural states : the environmental imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the nation /

"Natural States reconstructs the environmental imagination from public commentary, legislative records, and other documents. Contrasting preservationist, romantic, pastoral, nostalgic, and utilitarian concepts of nature, the authors demonstrate how tensions from competing ideals sustained the e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Judd, Richard William
Otros Autores: Beach, Christopher S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Folk and nature : pastoral landscapes in the postwar world
  • Politicizing the pastoral ideal : the clean-waters campaigns
  • Rivers, wildness, and redemptive play : preserving the Rogue and the Allagash
  • Saving nature's icons : the Maine coast and the Oregon beaches
  • Navigating the natural state : nature, recreation, and river corridor planning
  • Bridge to ecotopia : local control and statewide land-use planning
  • A view across the golf links : pastoralism in an era of declining civic engagement
  • The environmental imagination and the future of the environmental movement.