TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freyfogle,Eric T.
TI  - Agrarianism and the good society: land, culture, conflict, and hope 
T2  - Culture of the land
SN  - 9780813172507
AV  - HD205 .F735 2007eb
U1  - 306.3/490973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Land use
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Environmental ethics
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Social values
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Utilisation du sol
KW  - Aspect de l'environnement
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Environnement
KW  - Dégradation
KW  - Éthique de l'environnement
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - Valeurs sociales
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Environmental Conservation & Protection
KW  - fast
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - gnd
KW  - Landnutzung
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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