Nature and Bureaucracy: The Wildness of Managed Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9781032285672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

David Jenkins

Opis

This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Wild Garden PART I The Bureaucracy of Nature 1. Against Efficiency: Why We Cut Trees (And What Happens When We Do) 2. When the Well Runs Dry: Aquifers, Canals, and the Colorado River System 3. Atlantic Salmon, Endangered Species, and the Failure of Environmental Policies 4. Count Every Fish: Nonmarket Fishing Economies on the Yukon River 5. Managing Natural Resources in Alaska: Anthropology Bureaucratized PART II The Nature of Bureaucracy 6. Traditional Bureaucratic Knowledge: The Order of Rules 7. Bureaucratic Management of Wildlife: Wolves in the State of Alaska 8. Enemy Ancestors 9. To Save the Spiritual 10. Traditional Ecological Knowledge 11. The Dharma of Nature