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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970460503321

Autore

Meine Curt

Titolo

Correction lines : essays on land, Leopold, and conservation / / Curt Meine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2004

ISBN

1-59726-854-2

1-4237-6716-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Nature conservation - United States

Nature conservation - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning the Corner -- Part I: Conservation's Usable Past -- Ch. 1: The Oldest Task in Human History -- Ch. 2: Conservation and the Progressive Movement -- Ch. 3: Conservation Biology and Sustainable Societies -- Part II: Leopold's Legcy -- Ch. 4: Leopold's Fine Line -- Ch. 5: Emergence of an Idea -- Ch. 6: Giving Voice to Concern -- Ch. 7: Moving Mountains -- Ch. 8: The Secret Leopold -- Part III: Facing Forward -- Ch. 9: Inherit the Grid -- Ch. 10: The Once and Future Land Ethic -- Ch. 11: Home, Land, Security -- Notes -- Acknowledgment of Sources -- About the Author -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The last fifteen years have been a period of dramatic change, both in the world at large and within the fields of ecology and conservation.The end of the Cold War, the dot-com boom and bust, the globalizing economy, and the attacks of September 11, among other events and trends, have reshaped our worldview and the political environment in which.