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Autore: | Hansen Paul <1952-> |
Titolo: | Green in Gridlock [[electronic resource] ] : Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise / / Paul Walden Hansen ; foreword by Andrew Sansom |
Pubblicazione: | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
Disciplina: | 339.49 |
Soggetto topico: | Conservation leadership - United States - History |
Green movement - United States - History | |
Conservation of natural resources - Law and legislation - United States - History | |
Conservation of natural resources - Government policy - United States - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Green in gridlock: addressing the stalemate -- The progress point: the source of conservation success -- The conservation of hope: the ozone hole, acid rain, and climate change -- Population: the fundamental issue -- Green and God: the environment of faith -- The conservation of business: power for change -- The war in the woods: tough love between tree huggers and timber beasts -- Natural allies: environmentalists, hunters and anglers, and rural residents -- The Minnesota miracles: real success through engagement -- Land conservation: messaging for success -- Eating their own young: the Nader nadir -- Echoes from dinosaur: the perils of compromise -- Seeing the fiscal forest through the trees: conservation spending and the national debt -- Rules of engagement: making collaboration real -- Infinite harm: if we fail -- The ten convenient truths of conservation success. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in history-acid rain-lawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides. As a result, they achieved a spectacular outcome. This approach was also at work when another planet-threatening event-ozone depletion-was reversed.In Green in Gridlock, Paul Walden Hansen, the former head of the Izaak Walton League, takes stock of what has been accomplished and what has been squandered in the many environmental contests in which he was involve |
Titolo autorizzato: | Green in Gridlock |
ISBN: | 1-62349-300-5 |
1-4619-4451-1 | |
1-62349-046-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790527603321 |
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