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This title offers an inside look at the most successful campaign in
forest conservation history. "Roadless Rules" is a fast-paced and
insightful look at one of the most important, wide-ranging, and
controversial efforts to protect public forests ever undertaken in
the United States. In January 2000, President Clinton submitted to
the Federal Register the Roadless Area Conservation Rule,
prohibiting road construction and timber harvesting in designated
roadless areas. Set to take effect sixty days after Clinton left
office, the rule was immediately challenged by nine lawsuits from
states, counties, off-road-vehicle users, and timber companies. The
Bush administration refused to defend the rule and eventually
sought to replace it with a rule that invited governors to suggest
management policies for forests in their states. That rule was
attacked by four states and twenty environmental groups and
declared illegal. "Roadless Rules" offers a fascinating overview of
the creation of the Clinton roadless rule and the Bush
administration's subsequent replacement rule, the controversy
generated, the response of the environmental community, and the
legal battles that continue to rage more than seven years later. It
explores the value of roadless areas and why the Clinton rule was
so important to environmentalists, describes the stakeholder groups
involved, and takes readers into courtrooms across the country to
hear critical arguments. Author Tom Turner considers the lessons
learned from the controversy, arguing that the episode represents
an excellent example of how the system can work when all elements
of the environmental movement work together - local groups and
individuals determined to save favourite places, national
organizations that represent local interests but also concern
themselves with national policies, members of the executive branch
who try to serve the public interest but need support from outside,
and national organizations that use the legal system to support
progress achieved through legislation or executive action.
A series of texts on environmental planning for use in
undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those
involved in all aspects of the planning process. This book is
intended for students of town and country planning.
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning,
architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden
design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a
challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely
postmodern.
Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning
courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning
process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental
impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on
planning for the landscape.
Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but
it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.
With an international team of editors and authors from Europe,
North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes
beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the
impact of austerity on work across the private, public and
voluntary spheres. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book
engages with the major debates surrounding austerity and
neoliberalism, providing grounded analysis of the everyday
experience of work and employment.
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a
dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of
the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the
movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000. Frequently
compared to John Muir, David Brower was the first executive
director of the Sierra Club, founded Friends of the Earth, and
helped secure passage of the Wilderness Act, among other key
achievements. Tapping his passion for wilderness and for the
mountains he scaled in his youth, he was a central figure in the
creation of the Point Reyes National Seashore and of the North
Cascades and Redwood national parks. In addition, Brower worked
tirelessly in successful efforts to keep dams from being built in
Dinosaur National Monument and the Grand Canyon. Tom Turner began
working with David Brower in 1968 and remained close to him until
Brower's death. As an insider, Turner creates an intimate portrait
of Brower the man and the decisive role he played in the
development of the environmental movement. Culling material from
Brower's diaries, notebooks, articles, books, and published
interviews, and conducting his own interviews with many of Brower's
admirers, opponents, and colleagues, Turner brings to life one of
the movement's most controversial and complex figures.
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