Nature's burdens
Subtitle: conservation and American politics, the Reagan era to the present
By: Daniel Nelson
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781607325697
Subjects: Conservation of natural resources; Government policy; Environmental policy; History
Description: "A political and intellectual history of natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century--a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among policymakers, and changing ideas conservation. An account of new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, and animals in modern environmentalism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An auspicious setting; title: Origins of gridlock: the Reagan years; title: Upheaval : the environmental movement in transition; title: An intellectual revolution; title: Forests and owls; title: Conservation on trial : the Clinton years; title: Land conservation circa 2000; title: A perilous course : twenty-first-century conservation; title: American conservation : a progress report.