The American Wilderness
Subtitle: Reflections On Nature Protection In The United States
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813923369
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; USA; Development - Sustainable Development; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Government - U.S. Government; Finance; Nature conservation; United States
Description: "Interpretations of wild nature and wilderness are particularly diverse in the American mind, given our history, our collective economic success, and our diverse social and cultural mix. Although the meanings we attribute to nature reflect our different views of the role humans should play in the natural world, there remains a divide between how we embrace protected landscapes and how we consider natural landscapes, or nature itself. Thomas Vale explores this phenomenon in The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States. In his examination of protected landscapes at all scales, from the wooded corners of a city park and the local reserve of wetland, to the vast wilderness of the Everglades and Okeefenokee, to Central Park and Yosemite, Vale argues that nature protection is an act of place-creation, an act that necessarily links humans to nature and depends on a diverse array of human interactions."--Jacket.