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Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation (National Trust for Historic Preservation S) by Samuel N. Stokes with A. Elizabeth Watson and contributing authors Genevieve P. Keller and J. Timothy Keller; for the National Trust for Historic Preservation is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p class=null1>A new edition of the book that received the Historic Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor Award</p><p>Since publication of the first edition of <i>Saving America's Countryside</i> in 1989, the fight to save America's rural resources has met with much success. Approaches considered experimental just a decade ago-greenways and heritage areas, for example-are now widespread. Yet at the same time, such disquieting developments as continuing suburban sprawl, the weakening of federal laws, and the so-called property rights movement all suggest that work remains to be done.</p><p><i>Saving America's Countryside</i> was the first and is still the only comprehensive, step-by-step guide to protecting the natural, historic, scenic, and agricultural resources of a rural community. The authors show how to organize a conservation effort, inventory available resources, pass effective new laws, set up land trusts, take advantage of federal programs, and change public attitudes.</p><p>The thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on changes in conservation over the past eight years and adds a chapter on making economic developme
- Author
- Samuel N. Stokes with A. Elizabeth Watson and contributing authors Genevieve P. Keller and J. Timothy Keller; for the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801855481
- Subjects
- Social Science, Economics, History
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