Nature and Bureaucracy: The Wildness of Managed Landscapes (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
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- questions how bureaucracies conceive of and consequently interact with nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild - questions which kinds of human influence, conceived of in the widest possible sense, will produce ideal environments for future generations, and who gets to choose - draws on the author's experience as an objective scholar and over 10 years working as a practitioner in federal land management agencies - will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, policy and politics, and professionals working in environmental management roles as well as policymakers involved public policy and administration.
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- questions how bureaucracies conceive of and consequently interact with nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild - questions which kinds of human influence, conceived of in the widest possible sense, will produce ideal environments for future generations, and who gets to choose - draws on the author's experience as an objective scholar and over 10 years working as a practitioner in federal land management agencies - will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, policy and politics, and professionals working in environmental management roles as well as policymakers involved public policy and administration.
David Jenkins has 12 years of experience working in U.S. land management agencies. Prior to that he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bates College and conducted research at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His research publications span a range of topics, including myth, social organization, kinship, exchange networks, museums, ethnographic photography, environmental values, endangered species, resource exploitation, subsistence fisheries, autobiography, and the use of mathematical models in anthropology.
Title: Nature and Bureaucracy: The Wildness of Managed Landscapes (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
Author: Jenkins, David
ISBN: 9781032285627
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-09-08
Number of Pages: 250
Weight: 0.4809 kg
David Jenkins is an environmental bureaucrat distrustful of bureaucracy, and a scholar who recognizes both the potential and the limits of scholarship and science. He knows that there is no undoing the human shaping of nature, and yet he has written a hopeful book in the midst of ruins.
Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, Stanford University
In writing this book, David Jenkins has done something I would have guessed was not possible. He writes with the understanding and humility of a scientist, the emotional power of an artist, and the heresy that only an insider could imagine, to outline a philosophy of humanity's place in and impact on the global ecosystem. Reflected in these chapters is our path to a sustainable future. And he has done this with a book on bureaucracy.
David Carrier, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah
In Nature and Bureaucracy, anthropologist and public servant David Jenkins paints a devastating portrait of the ways in which bureaucracies tasked with administering public lands subvert their own missions. By turns candidly personal and trenchantly analytical, Nature and Bureaucracy is the brilliant product of Jenkins' long career in the US Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service. 'Traditional Bureaucratic Knowledge' supplants traditional ecological knowledge; 'efficiency,' quantitative targets, and simplification obscure the complexities of forests, rivers, fish, and wildlife. With cases ranging from salmon to wolves, Alaska to tallgrass prairie, logging to recreation, the book will be of interest to anyone interested in reading a provocative, insider account of how 'nature' is administered in the US today.
Judith Shapiro, Director, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development Program, School of International Service, American University
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