Battle for Yellowstone : morality and the sacred roots of environmental conflict

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Battle for Yellowstone : morality and the sacred roots of environmental conflict

Title remainder

morality and the sacred roots of environmental conflict

Statement of responsibility

Justin Farrell

Creator

• Farrell, Justin, 1984-

Subject

• Ecology
• Electronic books
• Environmental ethics
• Environmental ethics -- West (U.S.)
• Environmental ethics -- Yellowstone National Park
• Environmental policy
• Environmental policy -- West (U.S.)
• Environmental policy -- Yellowstone National Park
• Environmentalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- West (U.S.)
• Environmentalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Yellowstone National Park
• NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection
• Naturschutz
• Social Sciences
• Social conditions
• Social conflict
• Social conflict -- West (U.S.)
• Sociology
• Sociology, other
• Umweltethik
• Umweltschutz
• United States -- Yellowstone National Park
• United States, West
• West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions
• West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
• Wirtschaft
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yellowstone National Park -- Environmental conditions
• Ökologische Bewegung
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate | General

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide? Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral causes and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a 'new-West' social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history. This groundbreaking book shows how the unprecedented conflict over Yellowstone is not all about science, law, or economic interests, but more surprisingly, is about cultural upheaval and the construction of new moral and spiritual boundaries in the American West"--

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• Princeton studies in cultural sociology

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Provided by publisher

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IDEBK

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illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

In English

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology