Stephen Nash

Grand Canyon for Sale

Public Lands Versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change

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Produktbeschreibung

The new Trump administration is proclaiming that not only the Grand Canyon but our entire public land heritage may soon be up for sale. I hope this excellent book will awaken all Americans to an unprecedented threat to our parks, national monuments, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and ocean sanctuaries. —Bruce Babbitt, former United States Secretary of the Interior This is an outstanding book that every American ought to read. Nash manages to weave his way through an immensely concerning subject with irony, humor, and just enough hope so as to inspire readers to continue the fight against ongoing threats to public lands. —James L. Powell, author of Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West The lucid and vivid discussion in this book will be celebrated by everyone who is working to protect America's national parks and public lands. Stephen Nash uses the example of the Grand Canyon to detail the multiple threats that face our nation's parks, and follows with a positive strategy that can counter those threats. His book will serve as a solid foundation for the dialogue Americans must have if we hope to preserve the natural and cultural heritage preserved on our public lands. —James D. Nations, former Vice President for the Center for Park Research, National Parks Conservation Association, and editor of The State of America's National Parks Grand Canyon For Sale is a citizen s guide to understanding how our public lands are being pilfered for private profit. Corporations and politicians are turning federal lands—like the Grand Canyon—into cash cows while looting nature s estate for personal gain, fanning the flames of climate change, and railing against big government. It s a timely unveiling of the systemic theft of our nation s most treasured landscapes. —Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Trust This is an excellent yet sobering summary of the multiple ecological, environmental, and socio-political challenges to conserving biological diversity within national parks and on other public lands in the United Sates. This is essential reading for those concerned about conserving America s natural heritage. —William Newmark, University of Utah

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780520291478
• ISBN-10: 0520291476
• Artikelnr.: 47777769

Autorenporträt

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.