Community on Land: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest (New Social Formations) - Softcover

Curry, Janel M.; McGuire, Steven F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742501612 ISBN 13: 9780742501614

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Curry Janel M McGuire Steven

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Críticas

When people, land, and community are as one, all members prosper. When regarded as competing agents, all suffer. These authors show what we must do to get it right. -- Wes Jackson, author of New Roots for Agriculture In a well-reasoned, coherent . . . discussion, Curry and McGuire argue for a renewal of the 'concept of community' to counter the pervasive influence of individualism in all its form. A valuable contribution. * CHOICE * Curry and McGuire's provocative analysis shows that the privatization and degradation of the American 'commons' have deep historical roots within the rise of industrial civilization and of the individualistic capitalist ethos. But they also show that history is now being rewritten as promising new alternatives to the degradation of land emerge within American and Third world rural communities. A critical analysis of a critical social and environmental problem. -- Frederick H. Buttel, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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This book looks to the history of the 'the commons' in American and European social thought to better understand contemporary environmental problems. The authors show how American law governing lands and resources relies on the individualist assumptions of Enlightenment thinkers, who regarded land as 'wasted' when not being 'improved' by European agriculture or colonization. Curry and McGuire trace the history of this philosophical and historical legacy and reveal its strong influence on American concepts on community and land. They not only reveal the law's insufficient comprehension of community rights, but they also advocate realistic policy alternatives whereby community governance can better solve the challenges of resource management and other American social problems.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742501612
• ISBN 13: 9780742501614
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284