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This Land Is Our Land
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Author : Ken Ilgunas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-04-10
This Land Is Our Land written by Ken Ilgunas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Political Science categories.
Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America’s public lands are threatened by extremist groups and right-wing think tanks who call for our public lands to be sold to the highest bidder and closed off to everyone else. If these groups get their way, public property may become private, precious green spaces may be developed, and the common good may be sacrificed for the benefit of the wealthy few. Ken Ilgunas, lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer, takes readers back to the nineteenth century, when Americans were allowed to journey undisturbed across the country. Today, though, America finds itself as an outlier in the Western world as a number of European countries have created sophisticated legal systems that protect landowners and give citizens generous roaming rights to their countries' green spaces. Inspired by the United States' history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation. He imagines a future in which folks everywhere will have the right to walk safely, explore freely, and roam boldly—from California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.
This Land Is Our Land
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Author : Alex Stepick
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-05-26
This Land Is Our Land written by Alex Stepick and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-26 with Social Science categories.
For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identity? Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at recent events such as the Elián González case, This Land Is Our Land examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and multiculturalism. Rather than focusing on questions of assimilation, as many other studies have, this book concentrates on interethnic relations to provide an entirely new perspective on the changes wrought by immigration in the United States. A balanced analysis of Miami's evolution over the last forty years, This Land Is Our Land is also a powerful demonstration that immigration in America is not simply an "us versus them" phenomenon.
This Land Is Our Land
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Author : Suketu Mehta
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-08-22
This Land Is Our Land written by Suketu Mehta and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with Social Science categories.
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. The West, he argues, is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. He juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of labourers, nannies and others, from Dubai to New York, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous. This Land is Our Land also stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swathes of the world. When today’s immigrants are asked, ‘Why are you here?’, they can justly respond, ‘We are here because you were there.’ And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention, and literary polemic of the highest order.
Our Land Ourselves
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Author : Peter Forbes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Our Land Ourselves written by Peter Forbes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Nature categories.
This Land Is Our Land
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Author : Jedediah Purdy
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-18
This Land Is Our Land written by Jedediah Purdy and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with History categories.
A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.
Whose Land Is Our Land
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Author : Hetherington, Peter
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2015-08-26
Whose Land Is Our Land written by Hetherington, Peter and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-26 with Architecture categories.
Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying up thousands of acres annually to avoid tax. If planning permission is given for new housing, prices can rise fifty-fold - making a vast profit for a few and home ownership a distant dream for many. In this provocative book, journalist Peter Hetherington argues that Britain, particularly England, needs an active policy to address these areas and stronger action by the government. This important debate will attract interest among academics and postgraduates in planning, surveying, housing management, rural policy and social policy, political organisations, the Third Sector, social enterprises, national housing organisations, community and voluntary groups.
Managing Our Land Information Resources
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Managing Our Land Information Resources written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Information resources management categories.
Our Land Our Future
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Author : Denis Sims
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 1996
Our Land Our Future written by Denis Sims and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
Our Land And Water Resources
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Our Land And Water Resources written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Land use categories.
U.S. land and water resources are analyzed as a basis for projecting national agricultural cropland and other land needs to the year 2000. Impact of changes in technology and resource development as well as environmental and institutional factors affecting the availability of these natural resources are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the continuing responsibility of federal, State, and local governments to assess the adequacy of our natural resources to meet future needs and to improve the quality of the environment.
Our Land Our Lives Time Out In The Global Land Rush
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Author : Kate Geary
language : en
Publisher: Oxfam
Release Date : 2012
Our Land Our Lives Time Out In The Global Land Rush written by Kate Geary and has been published by Oxfam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Land tenure categories.