National Parks in Britain: The Social Democratic Paradox
Arcadia, 2015, no. 7
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The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
When the oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on 24 March 1989, it releases 41.6 million tons of crude oil along the coast of Alaska. The spill causes enormous damage to local ecosystems and wildlife.
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Nature Conservation in Ski Country? The Vanoise National Park
Arcadia, 2014, no. 2
Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History
About this issue
This volume of RCC Perspectives combines a number of essays in Canadian environmental history and related disciplines. The essays are united by a focus on cultural perceptions of Canadian environments, by an analysis of the interrelationship between nature and culture over time, and by a discussion of the human impact on natural environments.
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"The Impact of River Engineering Works on the Dyje River Floodplain in the Czech Republic"
The aim of the present study is to investigate changes in the channel morphology and land use of the lower part of the Dyje River floodplain as a result of river engineering works.
Roundtable Review of In the Field, Among the Feathered by Thomas R. Dunlap
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
"The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake: From Site of Discard to Environmental Playground?"
In order to understand the workings of ecological imperialism at the local level, this essay traces the haphazard environmental history of an area of land at the north-eastern border of Christchurch.
Review of A Claim on the Countryside: A History of the British Outdoor Movement by Harvey Taylor
Taylor seeks to describe the popular outdoor movement that he maintains has developed generically in both its ‘ideological evolution and its practical expression’ (16), from the earliest establishment of the Footpath Preservation Societies, through the Campaign for Access, and an Outdoor Movement on Wheels.
Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA)
The league promotes the protection of soil, air, woods, and water in the United States.
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Central Park in New York City
The landscape designers Vaux and Olmsted draft plans for New York City’s “Central Park,” a space in which to escape the city’s noise, pollution, and crowding.
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