Introduction -- Life in the enclaves -- A durable scale -- The education of Ada -- Framing our choices -- Goodbye to the public-private divide -- Back toward community -- Love and democracy -- Wanted: environmental leader -- The politics of homeland health.
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Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it shapes and inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about American culture while illuminating the intellectual origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats, over-engineered rivers, and degraded forests and grasslands. These land-use crises, he contends, arise mostly because of cultural attitudes that once made sense on the American frontier but now threaten our natural resources. To support and sustain healthy communities, profound adjustme.
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Title
Agrarianism and the good society.
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0813124395
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Environmental degradation-- United States.
Environmental ethics-- United States.
Human ecology-- United States.
Land use-- Environmental aspects-- United States.
National characteristics, American.
Social values-- United States.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental ethics.
Gesellschaft
Human ecology.
Land use-- Environmental aspects.
Landnutzung
National characteristics, American.
NATURE-- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.