When one thinks of the New Deal era, the issue of the environment does not immediately come to mind. Yet New Deal policies had a huge impact on environmental thinking, defining a new role for the federal government in the scientific management of the natural environment. INDICE: Foreword; W.Leuchtenburg Introduction; D.B.Woolner ; H.L.HendersonFDR as Environmentalist Grassroots Democracy: FDR and the Land; J.F.Sears TheComplex Environmentalist; B.Black The Progressive Era Origins of the CivilianConservation Corps; N.Maher Agriculture and the Human Community - Conservation: Wilderness New Deal Conservation: A View From the Wilderness; P.Sutter FDR,Hoover and the New Rural Conservation, 1920-1932; S.T.Phillips Law, Policy and Planning The New Deal Roots of Modern Environmentalism; A.Tarlock FDR's Use of the Antiquities Act; J.Leshy Referendum on Planning: Imagining River Conservation in the 1938 TVA Hearings; B.Black FDR and Environmental Leadership; J.R.Lyons A Usable Past Recovering FDR's Environmental Legacy; R.N.L.Andrews Toward a New Deal for Nature - and Nature's People; R.G.Kennedy
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61968-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 13/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés