A History of Nature Conservation in BritainOur attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off their insular, disunited and negative image so as to gain the influence that the size of their movement warrants? |
Contents
The why and the wherefore | 1 |
Definitions | 8 |
National parks and nature reserves | 60 |
The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 | 75 |
New conservationists and the Countryside Acts | 100 |
Going public and getting places | 121 |
Building bridges and bringing down barriers | 164 |
Government inertia and global initiative | 207 |
The mechanics and the mission | 250 |
Unnatural nature | 261 |
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