Searching for Paradise by Booth, Douglas E.;

Economic Development and Environmental Change in the Mountain West

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Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date of Publication 1 March 2002
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9780742518759
Binding Hardback
No. of pages288 pages
Size 233x157x21 mm
Weight 490 g
Language English

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The signs of economic change loom large in the mountain West as shuttered mines and lumber mills are overshadowed by luxurious homes sprouting on valley bottoms and ridge lines. This perceptive book explains these changes, assesses their effects on the natural environment, and gauges the reactions of local communities. Douglas E. Booth argues that population spread to the mountain West is following a pattern similar to the historical movement of people from central city to suburb, enabled by increases in income and wealth and changes in technology that ease the movement of goods, people, and information. Consolidating evidence that residential development and sprawl in the rural mountain West are placing stress on native plants and animals, the author shows how the current boom is adding to the cumulative and relatively permanent threats to ecosystems and biodiversity remaining from the older extractive economy. Booth demonstrates that population increases are fuelling local support for measures that would restrict and guide growth. He explores the formation of land trusts and other strategies for mitigating the negative ecological consequences of development. Drawing on concepts from economics, environmental ethics, and conservation biology, Booth suggests that the ultimate solution lies in re-directing population growth away from rural areas to reinvigorated and environmentally attractive "ecological cities" and to increase the density of development within rural areas themselves. Policymakers, activists, and local citizens concerned with rural sprawl will find this book an invaluable resource.

Booth's work on this matter is nothing short of impressive. Booth's argument is very logically laid-out with clear chapter-to-chapter and section-to-section transition to consistently remind readers where he is in the course of his argument, where he has been, and where he is going. The extensive tables and charts in the book . . . support his efforts very well. Searching for Paradise provides an insightful look into the causes and effects of economic development in the mountain West, and is an excellent read for those interested in the relationship between human civilization and the natural environment.

Chapter 1 The "Suburbanization" of the Mountain West Chapter 2 Economic Trends in the Mountain Counties: Rural
-Urban Convergence Chapter 3 Population Spreading in the Mountain West: Mobility and Footloose Income Chapter 4 The Cumulative Ecological Consequences of Mountain West Economic Development Chapter 5 Rural Sprawl and Rare and Threatened Species in the Mountain West Chapter 6 Local Growth and Support for Preserving the Natural Landscape in the Sierra Nevada Mountains Chapter 7 Saving the Landscape: Environmental Change and the Land Trust Movement in the Mountain West Chapter 8 The Environmental Ethics of Rural Sprawl: Ecological Cities and Biodiversity Chapter 9 Strategies for Limiting Rural Sprawl

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