Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground

Ben A. Minteer  |  Robert E. Manning  (редактори)

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Environment / Conservation

Advance praise for

Reconstructing Conservation

"Conservation, and later environmentalism, including national park establishment and wilder­ness preservation, are among the best things to come from American culture. Like all enduring traditions, the conservation movement has proven capable of withstanding substantial buffeting from the winds of historical change. Reconstructing Conservation provides analysis of the historical debates and definition of the core philosophy of community and restraint that will carry the conservation concept into the future."

Roderick Nash,

professor emeritus of history and environmental studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Wilderness and the American Mind

"Although the conservation movement is now over a century old, the issues that it raises remain as significant as ever. These essays serve as a potent reminder of the richness of conservation's past and of the crucial questions that the movement continues to pose about our future on this planet."

- Karl Jacoby,

author of Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

"Conservationists may be short of money or political power, but this book is evidence that they have winning ideas. A stimulating and timely collection of some of the best conservation thinking around."

- Donald Worster,

Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, Department of History, University of Kansas, author of Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas

Reconstructing Conservation brings together 23 leading scholars and practitioners to examine the classical conservation tradition and its value to contemporary environmentalism. Focusing not just on the tensions that have marked the recent debates over wilderness and environmentalism, the book represents a larger and ultimately more constructive and hopeful discussion over the proper course of future conservation scholarship and action.

Ben A. Minteer is assistant research professor, Human Dimensions of Biology Faculty, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, and co-editor (with Bob Pepperman Taylor) of Democracy and the Claims of Nature.

Robert E. Manning is professor of natural resources at the University of Vermont and author of Studies in Outdoor Recreation.

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CONTENTS

Foreword xi

Part I. Introduction 1

1. Conservation: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction 3

Ben A. Minteer and Robert E. Manning

Part II. Nature and Culture Reconsidered 17

2. Writing Environmental History from East to West 19

Richard W. Judd

3. The Nature of History Preserved; or, The Trouble with

Green Bridges 33 Robert McCullough

4. Going Native: Second Thoughts on Restoration 43

Jan E. Dizard

5. Conservation and Culture, Genuine and Spurious 57

Luis A. Vivanco

Part III. Reweaving the Tradition 75

6. Expanding the Conservation Tradition: The Agrarian Vision 77

Paul B. Thompson

7. Regional Planning as Pragmatic Conservationism 93

Ben A. Minteer

8. Building Conservation on the Land: Aldo Leopold and the Tensions of Professionalism and Citizenship 115

Susan Flader

9. Scott Nearing and the American Conservation Tradition 133

Bob Repperman Taylor

10. Conservation and the Four Faces of Resistance 145

Eric T. Freyfogle

11. Conservation and the Progressive Movement: Growing from the Radical Center 165 

Curt Meine

Part IV. New Methods and Models 185

12. Conservation: Moral Crusade or Environmental Public Policy? 187 

Bryan Norton

13. Social Climate Change: A Sociology of Environmental Philosophy 207

Robert E. Manning

14. Reconstructing Conservation in an Age of Limits: An Ecological Economics Perspective 223 

David N. Bengston and David C. Iverson

15. The Implication of the "Shifting Paradigm" in Ecology for Paradigm Shifts in the Philosophy of Conservation 239  J. Baird Callicott

   16. An Integrative Model for Landscape-Scale Conservation in the Twenty-First Century 263

Stephen C. Trombulak

Part V. Reconstructing Conservation Practice: Community and the Future of Conservation

Stewardship 277

17. Community Values in Conservation 279

Patricia A. Stokowski

18. Stewardship and Protected Areas in a Global Context: Coping with Change and Fostering Civil Society 297 

Brent Mitchell and Jessica Brown

19. Reinventing Conservation: A Practitioners View 313

Rolf Diamant, J. Glenn Eugster, and Nora J. Mitchell

20. Conservation Stewardship: Legacies from Vermont's Marsh 327

David Lowenthal

Part VI. Conclusion 333

21. Finding Common Ground: Emerging Principles for a Reconstructed Conservation 335 

1. Ben A. Minteer and Robert E. Manning

Notes 351

About the Contributors 401

Index 405