The New Environmental West

Bibliographic Data

ID12178574
AuthorsSamuel P Hays (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume3
Issue3
Pages223-248
Publication date1991-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Policy History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0898-0306 • E-ISSN: 1528-4190
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s089803060000628x
OpenAlexW2139481234
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

Over the past three decades environmental objectives have emerged in the West with considerable strength and influence to reshape public attitudes. Until World War II agriculture and raw-materials extraction still dominated the region's economic and political views.' But in recent years the West has begun to change rapidly. New residents have brought with them new attitudes toward natural resources. Increasingly, those resources are thought of as an environment to enhance individual and regional standards of living rather than as material commodities alone. An indigenous environmental constitutency has become more vigorous in challenging the previously dominant extractive economy of lumber, grazing, and mining

Agriculture · Archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Environmental protection · Geography · Indigenous · Natural (archaeology · Natural resource · Political science · Politics · American Environmental and Regional History · Law · Ecology

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