Blueprint for Going Green: How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation, Gerald P. McCarthy

Автор: Green Lesley
Название: Rock - Water - Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa
ISBN: 1478003995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478003991
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation. Green analyzes conflicting accounts of nature in environmental sciences that claim neutrality amid ongoing struggles for land restitution and environmental justice. Offering in-depth studies of environmental conflict in contemporary South Africa, Green addresses the history of contested water access in Cape Town; struggles over natural gas fracking in the Karoo; debates about decolonizing science; the potential for a politics of soil in the call for land restitution; urban baboon management; and the consequences of sending sewage to urban oceans.

Автор: Evelyn B. Sherr
Название: Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
ISBN: 0820351407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820351407
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Описание: This book,"" writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, ""is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and multitudes of other animals that find food and shelter in the vast expanses of marsh grass, in the sounds, and along the beaches of the Georgia Isles.

Автор: Paul Bolster
Название: Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act
ISBN: 0820357308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357300
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Описание: Fifty years ago Georgia passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970. Paul Bolster narrates the politics of the times and brings to life the political leaders and the coalition of advocates who led Georgia to pass the most comprehensive protection of marshlands along the Atlantic seaboard.

Автор: Jonathan Clapperton, Liza Piper
Название: Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
ISBN: 1773850040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773850047
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Описание: Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first environmentalism in Canada, the United States, and beyond. This collection considers the different ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists have worked to achieve significant change. It examines attempts to resist exploitative and damaging resource developments, and the establishment of parks, heritage sites, and protected areas that recognize the indivisibility of cultural and natural resources. It pays special attention to the thriving environmentalism of the 1960s through the 1980s, an era which saw the rise of major organizations such as Greenpeace along with the flourishing of local and community-based environmental activism. Environmental Activism on the Ground emphasizes the effects of local and Indigenous activism, offering lessons and directions from the ground up. It demonstrates that the modern environmental movement has been as much a small-scale, ordinary activity as a large-scale, elite one.

Автор: Seabrook Charles
Название: The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
ISBN: 0820345334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820345338
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast-its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it "a biological factory without equal.

Автор: Paul S. Sutter
Название: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
ISBN: 0820353825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820353821
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Описание: Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse.Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.

Автор: Lane, John
Название: Coyote settles the south
ISBN: 0820355410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820355412
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Описание: Tells the story of John Lane`s journey through the Southeast US, as he visits coyote territories: swamps, nature preserves, farm fields, suburbs, a tannery, and even city streets. On his travels he meets, interrogates, and observes those who interact with the animals - trappers, researchers, hunters, pet owners, and even a devoted coyote hugger.

Автор: Bolster Paul
Название: Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection ACT
ISBN: 0820362573 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820362571
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Описание: Enhances the reader`s understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolster`s account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present.

Автор: Jonathan K. Gerland
Название: Boggy Slough: A Forest, a Family, and a Foundation for Land Conservation
ISBN: 162349995X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623499952
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Описание: Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas’ Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state’s leading game and industrial forest management areas.A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs.The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million–acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family’s and the lumber company’s struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.

Автор: Webster Fred, Webster Marie S.
Название: The Road to El Cielo: Mexico`s Forest in the Clouds
ISBN: 0292744900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292744905
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: The story of a conservation effort in Mexico`s cloud forest.

Автор: Rick Van Noy
Название: Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South
ISBN: 0820354368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354361
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Описание: Like Rachel Carson`s groundbreaking work Silent Spring, Rick Van Noy`s Sudden Spring is a call to action to mitigate our environmental degradation. By highlighting stories of people and places adapting to the impacts of a warmer climate, Van Noy shows us what communities in the South are doing to become more climate resilient.

Автор: Sarah Milne
Название: Corporate Nature: An Insider`s Ethnography of Global Conservation
ISBN: 0816547009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816547005
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Описание: In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. Tragic and terrible, this event also magnifies a crisis in humanity’s efforts to save nature: failure of the very tools and systems at hand for advancing global environmental action. Sarah Milne spent more than a decade working for and observing global conservation projects in Cambodia. During this time, she saw how big environmental NGOs can operate rather like corporations. Their core practice involves rolling out appealing and deceptively simple policy ideas, like Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). Yet, as policy ideas prove hard to implement, NGOs must also carefully curate evidence from the field to give the impression of success and effectiveness. In Corporate Nature, Milne delves inside the black box of mainstream global conservation. She reveals how big international NGOs struggle in the face of complexity—especially in settings where corruption and political violence prevail. She uses the case of Conservation International’s work in Cambodia to illustrate how apparently powerful NGOs can stumble in practice: policy ideas are transformed on the ground, while perverse side effects arise, like augmented authoritarian power, illegal logging, and Indigenous dispossession. The real power of global conservation NGOs is therefore not in their capacity to control what happens in the field but in their capacity to ignore or conceal failings. Milne argues that this produces an undesirable form of socionature, called corporate nature, that values organizational success over diverse knowledges and ethical conduct.