Gifford Pinchot - Selected Writings

Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.

About the author

Char Miller is W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College. He has published dozens of books, including Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot; Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism; and, with V. Alaric Sample and R. Patrick Bixler, Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene.

Summary

Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.

Product details

• Authors: Gifford Pinchot, Pinchot Gifford
• Assisted by: Char Miller (Editor), Char (Pomona College) Miller (Editor), Miller Char (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2017
• EAN: 9780271078427
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07842-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Political science & theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas