Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks

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University of Michigan Press, 2 apr 2018 - 168 pagina's

Beloved by academic and general readers alike, Mountains Without Handrails, Joseph L. Sax’s thought-provoking treatise on America’s national parks, remains as relevant today as when first published in 1980. Focusing on the long-standing and bitter battles over recreational use of our parklands, Sax proposes a novel scheme for the protection and management of America's national parks. Drawing upon still controversial disputes—Yosemite National Park, the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, and the Disney plan for California's Mineral King Valley—Sax boldly unites the rich and diverse tradition of nature writing into a coherent thesis that speaks directly to the dilemma of the parks.

In a new foreword, environmental law scholar Holly Doremus articulates this book’s enduring importance and reflects on what Sax, her former teacher, might have thought about the encroachment of technology into natural spaces, the impact of social media, and growing threats from climate change. At this moment of great uncertainty for the national parks, Mountains Without Handrails should be read (and re-read) by anyone with a stake in America’s natural spaces.

 

Inhoudsopgave

Acknowledgments
Introduction
An Ideal in Search of Itself
The Ideal in Practice
Making a Choice
The Compromise Called
The Parks as They Ought to
At the Core of All This Wilderness and Luxury
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright

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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

activities Aldo Leopold Alfred American attitudes attractive chapter Charles Scribner’s Sons climber climbing Colorado River commercial concessioner Congress Conservation controversy Csikszentmihalyi Culture demand Disney distinctive Edward Abbey encourage engagement with nature Environmental example facilities fishing Forest Service goal Grand Canyon History hunting Huth Ibid intensity of experience John Muir John Wesley Powell Knopf leisure literature Mineral King modern Mountains Without Handrails Muir’s Museums national forest National Park Policy National Park Service national park system Niagara Olmsted Olmsted’s Olympic National Park opportunity park experience park management parklands popular preservation preservationist problem public lands question reflective recreation response San Francisco satisfaction Sax’s scenery sense setting Sierra Club simply ski resort smartphones social media society symbolic tourist trips U.S. Department U.S. Forest Service University Press urban values visitor wild wilderness Yellowstone York Yosemite National Park Yosemite Valley

Over de auteur (2018)

Joseph L. Sax was a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was the counselor to the Secretary of the Interior and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

Holly Doremus is Professor of Environmental Regulation and Co-faculty Director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelMountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
AuteurJoseph L. Sax
UitgeverUniversity of Michigan Press, 2018
ISBN0472123726, 9780472123728
Lengte168 pagina's
  
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