Buying Nature

""This book makes an important contribution to an ongoing discussion of global environmental governance, and it is a wonderful balance to the many works that see globalization as both inevitable and mostly good. The picture of the global and the local that emerges is complex, nuanced, contextual, and very interesting. Its readability and accessibility to an interdisciplinary audience will make it highly attractive to graduate and undergraduate course adoption in a variety of disciplines.""--Helen Ingram, Professor of Political Science and Warmington Endowed Chair in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, IrvinePlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote. "" Buying Nature is the definitive work on land acquisition for conservation purposes in the United States. With its sweeping history and critical assessment of public and private policies, the book redefines how we think and how we should think about land acquisition. The wealth of information alone will make Buying Nature a standard reference for academics and practitioners for years to come. The policy critique makes this information immediately relevant."" Craig W. Thomas, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst ""The authors of Buying Nature use their considerable interdisciplinary talent to make sense of the patchwork practices of land conservation in the United States. The compelling evidence they marshal defies all simple solutions dictated by ideology. The book is required reading for anyone interested in natural resources policy."" Helen Ingram, Professor of Political Science and Warmington Endowed Chair in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine ""This book takes ideas Gottlieb first introduced in his excellent book *Forcing the Spring* and extends them in important new conceptual and concrete ways. He effectively broadens conceptions of the environment to include issues that are generally taken to be more industrial or agricultural. The arguments he makes for taking a broader view are most persuasive and hopeful. They show a way for the environment to become more than the narrow regulatory subject it is now.""--Helen Ingram, Professor of Political Science and Warmington Endowed Chair in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine ""*Buying Nature* is the definitive work on land acquisition for conservation purposes in the United States. With its sweeping history and critical assessment of public and private policies, the book redefines how we think - and how we should think - about land acquisition. The wealth of information alone will make *Buying Nature* a standard reference for academics and practitioners for years to come. The policy critique makes this information immediately relevant.""--Craig W. Thomas, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst ""The authors of *Buying Nature* use their considerable interdisciplinary talent to make sense of the patchwork practices of land conservation in the United States. The compelling evidence they marshal defies all simple solutions dictated by ideology. The book is required reading for anyone interested in natural resources policy.""--Helen Ingram, Professor of Political Science and Warmington Endowed Chair in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine