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Human Ecology Review
Official Journal of SHE

The restoration of the Florida Everglades.  The return of the wolf to Yellowstone.  The creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.  Each was a landmark of the environmental movement in the 1990s and each was realized under the guidance of then Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt.  Now he draws on these and other signature experiences to define a pioneering vision of how Americans can protect their land and wildlife.

  In Cities in the Wilderness, Babbitt surveys our national history of land use, exposing the economic and political pressures that shape environmental policy and gleaning lessons from groundbreaking conservation work. From saving a significant swath of desert in Southern California to retiring an aging dam in Maine, he recounts how major conservation projects were assembled despite the naysayers, the self-interested parties, and the ideologues. 

  From this venerable yet tumultuous past comes a vision and a program for how it should be done:  a federal leadership role in land use planning, a way of thinking about open space that retains local control while acknowledging national interests.  This book celebrates key accomplishments in the environmental field while planning for greater ones – and Bruce Babbitt is an inspirational guide along that path.  

  Currently practicing law in Washington, D.C., Bruce Babbitt served as US Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001, as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as Attorney General of Arizona from 1975 to 1978.

 
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The Society for Human Ecology (SHE) is an international interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application. The Society holds regular conferences, conducts workshops and symposia, and co-sponsors a variety of related activities to further integrate work among professionals in fields pertaining to human ecology.

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