Edward P Weber
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"This book uses primary documents as a lens through which to examine historical and present-day efforts to protect endangered species in the United States and around the world. Analyzes the connections between human behavior, industrialization, modernization, and public policy, and examines the impact of these factors on various species. Integrates a breadth of topics including economics, history, philosophy, sociology, and politics and policymaking....
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Publisher's description: In the last two decades, people in a growing number of localities in the United States have developed grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) as a means to resolve policy problems affecting their environment, economy, and communities. Ad hoc and voluntary groups of environmentalists, developers, businesspeople, federal and state resource managers, farmers, loggers, local citizens, and those representing recreation interests...