Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America - Couverture rigide

Cohen, Shaul E.

 
9780520237704: Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America
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ISBN 10 : 0520237706 ISBN 13 : 9780520237704
Editeur : University of California Press, 2004

Synopsis

Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E. Cohen exposes the way that environmental stewardship is undermined through the manipulation of trees and the people who plant them by a partnership of big business, the government, and tree-planting groups. He reveals how positive associations and symbols that have been invested in trees are exploited by an interlocking network of government agencies, private timber companies, and nongovernmental organizations to subvert the power of people who think that they are building a better world.

Planting Nature details the history of tree planting in the United States and the rise of popular sentiment around trees, including the development of the Arbor Day holiday and tree-planting groups such as the National Arbor Day Foundation and American Forests. Drawing from internal papers, government publications, advertisements, and archival documents, Cohen illustrates how organizations promote tree planting as a way of shifting attention away from the causes of environmental problems to their symptoms, masking business-as-usual agendas. Ultimately, Planting Nature challenges the relationships between a "green" public, the organizations that promote their causes, and the "powers that be," providing a cautionary tale of cooperation and deception that cuts across the political spectrum.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shaul E. Cohen is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon and author of The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery (1993).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520237706
ISBN 13 
9780520237704
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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