Natural states
Subtitle: the environmental imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the nation
By: Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach.
Contributors: Beach, Christopher S.
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Environmentalism -- Maine; Environmentalism -- Oregon; Environmentalism -- United States; Environmental policy -- Maine; Environmental policy -- Oregon; Environmental policy -- United States
Description: "Natural States reconstructs the environmental imagination from public commentary, legislative records, and other documents. Contrasting preservationist, romantic, pastoral, nostalgic, and utilitarian concepts of nature, the authors demonstrate how tensions from competing ideals sustained the environmental movement, contributed to its successes, but also limited its achievements. They provide unique detail about the development of the environmental movement in the years preceding the publication of Silent Spring, and make important contributions to our understanding of American environmentalism as both a local and national movement."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-306) and index.