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
Figures | 1 |
Science and economics | 6 |
Plates | 13 |
Tables | 17 |
Town and country | 22 |
Laws and lists | 47 |
National parks and nature reserves | 60 |
Nature reserves | 70 |
Going public and getting places | 121 |
Building bridges and bringing down barriers | 164 |
Government inertia and global initiative | 207 |
Park | 216 |
Areas | 228 |
National Park | 234 |
The mechanics and the mission | 250 |
Unnatural nature | 261 |
Postwar reconstruction | 86 |
New conservationists and the Countryside Acts | 100 |