Landscape of Reform Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America

Name: Landscape of Reform Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America
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ISBN: 9780262512558

ISBN-10: 0262512556

ISBN-13: 9780262512558

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ben A. Minteer

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In The Landscape of ReformBen Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century: Liberty Hyde Bailey, a forgotten figure in the Progressive conservation movement; urban and regional planning theorist Lewis Mumford; Benton MacKaye, the forester and conservationist who proposed the Appalachian Trail in the 1920s; and Aldo Leopold, author of the environmentalist classic A Sand County Almanac. Minteer argues that these writers blazed a significant "third way" in environmental ethics and practice, a more…

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List price: $21.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Civic Pragmatism and American Environmental Reform



Nature Study, Rural Progressivism, and the Holy Earth: The Forgotten Contribution of Liberty Hyde Bailey



Lewis Mumford's Pragmatic Conservationism



Wildnerness and the "Wise Province": Benton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail



Aldo Leopold, Land Health, and the Public Interest



The Third Way Today: Natural Systems Agriculture and New Urbanism



Conclusion: Environmental Ethics as Civic Philosophy


Notes


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