Perspectives On Conservation

'Together with the eighteen additional scholars who discuss their papers, the array of talent is formidable. The emphasis is not on natural resources as scenery but on resources for human consumption in such tangible forms as energy, food, and fiber. The essays include some extreme points of view... The book is an education in the complexity and implications of attaching costs and quantities to the resource problem and devising political and administrative action for coping with it. It presents the conditions for advancing further to the point of making conclusions and formulating policy based on a concept of natural resources as something measurable and utilitarian. But apparently this day is a long way off...' Stanley B. Tankel, Regional Plan Association

• Part 1 The First Fifty Years; Chapter 1 Main Lines of Thought and Action, Ernest S. Griffith; Chapter 2 Pioneers and Principles, Samuel T. Dana; Chapter 3 The Changing Context of the Problems, Henry C. Hart; Chapter 4 The Mythology of Conservation, Samuel P. Hays; Part 2 Science, Technology, and Natural Resources; Chapter 5 The Inexhaustible Resource of Technology, Thomas B. Nolan; Chapter 6 Technology on the Land, Byron T. Shaw; Chapter 7 Malthus’ Main Thesis Still Holds, Robert C. Cook; Chapter 8 The Barrier of Cost, Harry A. Curtis; Part 3 Resource Demands and Living Standards; Chapter 9 How Much Should a Country Consume?, John Kenneth Galbraith; Chapter 10 The Crucial Value Problems, Philip M. Hauser; Chapter 11 Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Balance of Nature, Paul B. Sears; Part 4 Urban Growth and Natural Resources; Chapter 12 The City’s Challenge in Resource Use, Luther Gulick; Chapter 13 Some Problems in City Planning, Joseph L. Intermaggio; Chapter 14 Our Need of Breathing Space, Sigurd F. Olson; Chapter 15 Selective Opportunism, the Surest Way, Abel Wolman; Part 5 Some Determinants of Resource Policy; Chapter 16 The Political Economy of Resource Use, Edward S. Mason; Chapter 17 The Broadening Base of Resource Policy, Robert W. Hartley; Chapter 18 Policy Criteria for Petroleum, Minor S.JamesonJr.; Chapter 19 The Waning Role of Laissez Faire, Bushrod W. Allin; Part 6 Organizing for Conservation and Development; Chapter 20 Broader Bases for Choice: The Next Key Move, Gilbert F. White; Chapter 21 Can We Still Afford a Separate Resources Policy?, Charles M. Hardin; Chapter 22 The Plus Side of the Record, Robert E. Merriam; Chapter 23 The Federal Responsibility for Leadership, William Pincus;