Title: Revolutionary parks
Description: "'Revolutionary Parks' tells the surprising story of how forty national parks were created in Mexico during the latter stages of the first social revolution of the twentieth century. By 1940 Mexico had more nationall parks than any other country. Together they protected more than two million acres of land in fourteen states. Even more remarkable, Lazaro Cardenas, president of Mexico in the 1930s, began to promote concepts akin to sustainable development and ecotourism. With affinities for both rational science and social justice, the revolutionary state's park system turned out to be an episode of suprising governmental foresight." -- Book cover.
Subjects: Politics and government, Nature conservation, Social justice, Social policy, Environmental conditions, Protection, Cultural property, Environmental policy, Landscape protection, National parks and reserves, Cultural policy, History, Mexico, politics and government, North america, environmental conditions, National parks and reserves--history, National parks and reserves--mexico--history--20th century, Nature conservation--history, Nature conservation--mexico--history--20th century, Landscape protection--history, Landscape protection--mexico--history--20th century, Cultural property--protection--history, Cultural property--protection--mexico--history--20th century, Social justice--history, Social justice--mexico--history--20th century, Environmental policy--history, Environmental policy--mexico--history--20th century, Sb484.m4 w35 2011, 333.78/30972
Places: Mexico
Time periods: 20th century, 1910-1946