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Author : Eugenia Horstman Connally
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Travel
ISBN : MINN:319510001265787
Author : Donald Richard Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924085657207
Phantom Parks is a hard-hitting and passionate examination of why our national parks are failing to protect the wild - and what must be done to reverse this trend. Having travelled throughout most of Canada`s national park system, Rick Searle concludes that there is no one single cause to the current ecological crisis, rather it is about a slow death of a thousand cuts. The wild within our parks is being threatened and drained away by a variety of causes: the lobby for growth and development of park facilities to accommodate ever-increasing demands for recreation and tourism; adjacent land use such as farming, logging and mining, which contribute to the parks becoming islands of extinction; global pressures such as acid rain, climate change and the long-range transportation of pollutants. There are solutions to the crisis, however. Maintaining the wildness of the national parks now requires radical changes in the way we perceive and use them. There is hope, but we must act quickly. Phantom Parks is a book we can only ignore at our peril. (2000)
Author : John C. Miles
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560324465
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110725178
Author : Wendy Hart Beckman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766019470
Mention "national parks," and most people think of majestic mountains, bears, forest fires, and spouting geysers. But the national park system includes much more -- the Statue of Liberty, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, and the Grand Canyon. The parks were established to keep areas of natural and cultural significance "unimpaired for future generations." In National Parks in Crisis: Debating the Issues, Wendy Hart Beckman explores historical issues, from the building of dams to the control of wildlife. And she outlines the questions facing the parks today: How can pollution be controlled? What are the interests of different cultural groups? How can people enjoy the parks without spoiling the experience -- for today's visitors and for the visitors of tomorrow? Book jacket.
Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106211048
Author : Ronald A. Foresta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135989736
First Published in 2011. This book is a study of an expanding National Park System; it is also a study of the bureaucracy that shaped it, how it grew, and the stresses it faces. As Dr. Foresta shows, the Park Service is no stranger to controversy and change. One of the Service's strengths has been its pragmatism and adaptability, but current guidelines are hard to come by and the decisions of the future will be neither simple nor easy. This study is valuable not only for its analysis but for the informed, revealing picture it presents of an agency and a system that have enriched the lives of countless citizens and visitors to this country.
Author : Eugene Krasnov,Anna Karpenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317157663
Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad captures the evolving nature of the types of crises faced by a society as it transforms and evolves. Once the westernmost bastion of the Soviet Union and now the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, the Kaliningrad Oblast remains cut off from direct land communication with mainland Russia and provides a condensed, real-life laboratory in which to observe changing political, technological and economic priorities in Post-Soviet society. Expert contributors from the region chart the tensions, problems and opportunities created by the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 and examine the change in status and situation of the Kaliningrad Oblast. By looking at a selection of economic, environmental and social crises a historical link between the Soviet and Post-Soviet eras is formed and rigorously examined.
Author : Lary M. Dilsaver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781442256842
Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.
Author : Jonathan Barnett,Matthijs Bouw
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832006
Natural disasters from heat waves to coastal and river flooding will inevitably become worse because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. Managing them is possible, but planners, designers, and policymakers need to advance adaptation and preventative measures now. Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought and Wildfire by design and planning experts Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw is a practical guide to addressing this urgent national security problem. Barnett and Bouw draw from the latest scientific findings and include many recent, real-world examples to illustrate how to manage seven climate-related threats: flooding along coastlines, river flooding, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks
Publisher : National Center for Education Statistics
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063580729
Education Department Publication NCES 2005-074. 33rd edition. Prepared by William J. Hussar, et al. Provides revisions of projections shown in "Projections of Education Statistics to 2013." Includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education at the national level. Contains projections for enrollment, graduates, classroom teachers, and expenditures to the year 2014. Also includes projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and high school graduates to the year 2014 at the State level.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : MINN:31951D03804771C
Author : William Edward Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : OCLC:18805304
Author : Adrian Howkins,Jared Orsi,Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780806154756
“The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks “America’s best idea.” The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a starting point for thinking about an international history of national parks. They explore the historical interactions and influences—intellectual, political, and material—within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. What is the role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics? What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently about national parks at different times and in different places; and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate change. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. If national parks are, as Stegner said, “absolutely American,” they are no less part of the world at large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms.
Author : Stephen A. Germic
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739151983
In this work of interdisciplinary scholarship, Stephen A. Germic reveals how America's first parks, both urban and 'wilderness,' were created and organized to mitigate the most threatening social and economic crises in the nineteenth century outside of the Civil War. Germic analyzes the intentionally disguised relationship between the constructed 'nature' of Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone and the expanding but crisis-prone capitalist state. American Green demonstrates how the fundamental function of these parks was economic and political—in the service of maintaining a consensus regarding national identity. The organization and control of 'natural' space, Germic argues, is inseparable from its function as a capitalist instrument. This instrumentalism served not only to define, constitute, and segregate social groups, but also to promote racial and ethnic identifications above those based on class interest. Providing a fresh insight into United States labor, cultural and environmental history, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of American parks and the complex meaning of American public space.
