To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Environmental & Social Studies  Economics, Politics & Policy  Politics, Policy & Planning  Environmental Politics

Northern Landscapes The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska

By: Daniel Nelson
240 pages, no illustrations
Northern Landscapes
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Northern Landscapes ISBN: 9781891853852 Paperback Aug 2004 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £16.99
    #148872
  • Northern Landscapes ISBN: 9781891853845 Hardback Aug 2004 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £32.99
    #148871
Selected version: £16.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

The first comprehensive examination of the campaign to preserve wild Alaska through the creation of a vast system of parks and wildlife refuges. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, Daniel Nelson traces disputes over resources alongside the politics of the Alaska statehood movement. He provides in-depth coverage of the growth of Alaskan environmental organizations, their partnerships with national groups, and their participation in political campaigns into the l970's.

Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue: Washington, December 1980 Part I. Seedtime: Alaska to the 1960s 1. The Emergence of Alaska 2. Conservation in Transition Part II. Wilderness Politics: Alaska, 1960s-1976 3. Alaska Upheavals 4. Congressional Responses 5. Southeast Alaska and the Wilderness Movement 6. Oil Age Discontents Part III. The ANILCA Campaign: Alaska and Washington, 1977-1980 7. Congress Deliberates 8. Birth of ANILCA Postscript: Alaska in the 1980s and Beyond Notes Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Daniel Nelson is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Akron. His previous publications include Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920 and Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present.
By: Daniel Nelson
240 pages, no illustrations
Media reviews
Relevant for students of wilderness politics, scholars focusing on how interest groups intersect within the legislative and executive arenas, and laypersons with a general interest in the process by which nearly one third of Alaska came to be set aside as protected natural areas. - James N. Gladden, University of Alaska, Fairbanks"
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides