Conservation Reconsidered - Nature, Virtue, and American Liberal Democracy

The prominent contributors in Conservation Reconsidered establish a fundamentally original view of the conservation movement and the impact of public policy on nature. This collection of essays articulate the belief that the thinkers and actors who helped develop the conservation movement-notably John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and Aldo Leopold-have been seriously misunderstood by scholars who have analyzed them in the context of contemporary environmental debates. Conservationism, the contributors argue, was a diverse movement dealing with difficult questions about the relationship of human beings to nature in a modern liberal democratic state. The essays place conservationism within the framework of 19th century American political thinkers including Darwin, Emerson, Thoreau and Olmsted, and they illuminate perennial questions about citizenship and our place in the natural world. Conservation Reconsidered takes a new look at what is problematic about the legacy of American conservationism and explores worthy alternatives to the dominant environmentalist thinking of today.

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By Charles T. Rubin - Contributions by Bruce Pencek; Jeffery Salmon; Marlo Lewis Jr.; Larry Arnhart; James G. Lennox; Bob Pepperman Taylor and Marc Landy

Summary

This collection of essays articlate the belief that the thinkers and actors who helped develop the conservation movement have been seriously misunderstood by scholars who have analyzed them in the context of contemporary environmental debates.

Product details

• Authors: Charles T Rubin, Charles T. Rubin, Rubin Charles T.
• Assisted by: Charles T. Rubin (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2000
• EAN: 9780847697168
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9716-8
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Series: The Political Economy Forum; The Political Economy Forum
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy, Conservation of the environment