Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground

by Eric T. Freyfogle

Book Overview

Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven't done their intellectual homework, he contends, and they have failed to offer an understandable, compelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300110405
• ISBN13: 9780300110401
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.6"