| Description |
vii, 212 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The new conservation, by R. L. Means.--The economics of wilderness, by G. Hardin.--Prosperity and the national parks, by J. Hope.--Landscape esthetics, by L. B. Leopold.--Daniel Boone is dead, by D. Lowenthal.--Public parks and private lives, by I. J. Winn.--Nature and the city, by A. Heckscher.--The myth of the peaceful atom, by R. Curtis and E. Hogan.--Bananas in Vermont, by R. M. Klein.--Green mountains, green money, by R. M. Klein.--Dwindling lakes, by A. D. Hasler and B. Ingersoll.--Arctic walk, by J. P. Milton.--The Florence floods, by R. M. Klein.--The King besieged, by J. Hope.--The ecology of a reservoir, by P. A. Erickson and J. T. Reynolds.--Escalante canyon, by E. Abbey.--A song of San Francisco Bay, by M. Reynolds.--A Soviet plan for nature, by I. P. Gerasimov.--Suggested additional references (p. 209-212) |
| Analysis |
Conservation of natural resources Essays |
| Notes |
"Articles from Natural history, the journal of the American Museum of Natural History." |
| Bibliography |
bibl pages 209-212 |
| Subject |
Ecology.
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Nature conservation.
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| Author |
Meyer, Alfred P
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Natural history
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| LC no. |
76138488 |
| ISBN |
0442781563 (paperback) |
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