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Book Ecological Restoration and the U S  Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition

Download or read book Ecological Restoration and the U S Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition written by Laura Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying—restorying—restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines how their writings on nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation, and restoration have variously inspired and been translated into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) at Walden Pond, John Muir (1838–1914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) at his family’s Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890–1998) in the Everglades, and Edward Abbey (1927–1989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics in a commentary on considering (and developing) environmental literature’s place in conversations on restoration ecology, ecological restoration, and rewilding.

Book Our Better Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip J. Dreyfus
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2012-04-03
  • ISBN : 0806184779
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Our Better Nature written by Philip J. Dreyfus and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both. Dreyfus examines the ways that San Franciscans remade the landscape to fit their needs, and how their actions reflected and affected their ideas about nature, from the destruction of wetlands and forests to the creation of Golden Gate and Yosemite parks, the Sierra Club, and later, the birth of the modern environmental movement. Today, many San Franciscans seek to strengthen the ties between cities and nature by pursuing more sustainable and ecologically responsible ways of life. Consistent with that urge, Our Better Nature not only explores San Francisco’s past but also poses critical questions about its future. Dreyfus asks us to reassess our connection to the environment and to find ways to redefine ourselves and our cities within nature. Only with such an attitude will San Francisco retain the magic that has always charmed residents and visitors alike.

Book Dam

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Warfield Simpson
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0375422315
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Dam written by John Warfield Simpson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crane with dam in background.

Book Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers

Download or read book Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers written by American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1905-1919 include papers published subsequently in revised form in the institute's Transactions.

Book Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers

Download or read book Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 2794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mining and Metallurgy

Download or read book Mining and Metallurgy written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Sierra Club  1892 1926

Download or read book History of the Sierra Club 1892 1926 written by Holway R. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Journal of Urban Sciences

Download or read book International Journal of Urban Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library written by United States. Department of the Interior. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flow of Water in Pipes

Download or read book Flow of Water in Pipes written by Hiram Francis Mills and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report on Improvement of the Upper Mystic River and Alewife Brook by Means of Tide Gates and Large Drainage Channels

Download or read book Report on Improvement of the Upper Mystic River and Alewife Brook by Means of Tide Gates and Large Drainage Channels written by Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...A report on improvement of the Upper Mustic River and Alewife Brook by means of tide gates and large drainage channels...

Book The California Debris Commission

Download or read book The California Debris Commission written by Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: