{"product_id":"nature-unbound-randy-t-simmons-9781598132281","title":"Nature Unbound: Bureaucracy vs. the Environment","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of nature?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1934, former U.S. Forest Service offcial Aldo Leopold, a godfather to the modern environmental movement, wrote that \"restrictive laws\" had \"largely failed\" in their mission to conserve America's forests, rivers, and other natural resources. Less than forty years later, however, as various events pushed environmental concerns into the public spotlight, lawmakers from both parties championed legislation far more sweeping and restrictive than any Leopold had witnessed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How well did these \"restrictive laws\" work to right environmental wrongs? Why did so many miss the mark? And how should we go about improving our policies? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNature Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, authors Randy Simmons, Ryan M. Yonk, and Kenneth J. Sim offer a devastating critique of federal environmental policy by scrutinizing it through the lenses of biological ecology and political ecology. This powerful framework, they show, reveals that environmental policy has been guided since the late 1960s by demonstrably false assumptions responsible for a host of ineffective or wasteful, command-and-control policies--on air pollution, water pollution, endangered species, wilderness, renewable energy, and more. The mistakes have also empowered political entrepreneurship in ways that have encroached on property rights, burdened the general public, and degraded the civic landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More than a critique of false assumptions and flawed policies, \u003ci\u003eNature Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e offers bold principles to help us rethink environmental objectives, align incentives with goals, and af?rm the notion that human beings are an integral part of the natural order and merit no less consideration than Earth's other treasures. Ultimately, nothing less can succeed in our efforts to restore natural resources and revitalize our social and political ecosystem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randy T. Simmons,Ryan M. Yonk,Kenneth J. Sim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598132288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598132281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independent Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Randy T. Simmons","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448137527551,"sku":"9781598132281","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c28529fe-f1c7-4221-a8a9-5302cad5b246.jpg?v=1777237151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nature-unbound-randy-t-simmons-9781598132281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}