Grand Canyon for Sale

Public Lands Versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29147-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape.
 
In addition, a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands.
 
To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nash, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Brink
2. Alien Abductions
3. Landscapes in Motion
4. Ghost Tour
5. Tusayans
6. Destitution Park
7. Air and Uncle John
8. Mount Trumbull
9. Cash Cows
10. Sacred Cowboys
11. Treasure Maps
12. Thrill Rides
13. Capture and Corruption
14. The Lost Orphan’s Legacy

Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Index

Map Insert Follows Page 22

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Nash is the author of two award-winning books on science and the environment, and his reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, BioScience, Archaeology, and the New Republic. He is Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the University of Richmond.