Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in Americas growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl; open space; and political realities; Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain the most effective steps that communities can take to protect nature.The book: documents the broad range of benefits; including economic impacts; resulting from comprehensive biodiversity protection efforts; identifies and disseminates information on replicable best community practices; establishes benchmarks for evaluating community biodiversity protection programs.Nine comprehensive case studies of communities explain how nature protection programs have been implemented. From Austin and Baltimore to Tucson and Minneapolis; the authors explore how different cities and counties have taken bold steps to successfully protect natural areas. Examining program structure and administration; land acquisition strategies and sources of funding; habitat restoration programs; social impacts; education efforts; and overall results; these case studies lay out perfect examples that other communities can easily follow. Among the case study sites are Sanibel Island; Florida; Austin; Texas; Baltimore County; Maryland; Charlotte Harbor; Florida; and Teton County; Wyoming.Nature-Friendly Communities offers a useful overview of the increasing number of communities that have established successful nature protection programs and the significant benefits those programs provide. It is an important new work for public officials; community activists; and anyone concerned with understanding or implementing local or regional biodiversity protection efforts.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Misleading.By Emil NilssonHad this as litterature in my higher level of museumstudies. It is an anthology thats basically been desperatly created by throwing together a mixed lot of articles written by artists; academics and mostly other non-museum workers. Only one article was actually written by museum curators; and that was also the only informative and interesting article in the book; it was actually about "museum materiality" which the other articles are not!After reading this book me and my class (of people studying museumstudies) concluded that the picture on the front was far more interesting than the books content; and further more; the book has absolutley nothing to do with natural history museums (as the front suggests) so its at the same time extremely misleading! Almost all articles are written about art galleries art museum... I think this made most of my classmates quite disappointed; I know I was.A book marked as museum litterature for museumstudents? Containing articles about art galleries art museums written by artists and academics who has never worked in a museum? What an joke.Conclusion:If you are a student studying museumstudies and this book has popped up on your list of litterature; dont buy it; its a waste of money and you probably wont be able to use it later in life. Borrow it at the library; and consider copying chapter 10 since its actually pretty good.If you are someone who just happens to enjoy museums; dont buy this book; its misleading and you will get a false view of how the museum actually works since the book is not written by museum people. . . Instead I recommend that you buy the museums selfwritten yearbooks; those books are written by the museum staff (the people who actually works at the museum) and I find them extremely useful; entertaining anf filled with new knowledge and reflection on materiality. Depending on the museum of course.This review was written by someone who has studied museumstudies for 4 years and intends to work as a curator in a near future.I wasted my money on this book; dont make the same mistake. The cover is pretty good looking though; might remove it from the book; frame it; and put it on my wall. That way it might do me some good.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable and InterestingBy AnonymousThis small anthology explores the role of materiality within museums - beginning with the objects in the collection; to human engagements with the physicality of objects and architectural space; and finishing with how incorporation of materiality can enhance interpretation. Many of the essays examined the affect of the sensory stimulation - sight; touch; small; sound; and emotional feeling - on the human experience of objects; and objects in museums in particular. Additionally; considering the ways that sensory engagement creates meaning; symbolism; and memory that function as dialectic social relationships between things and people. Very enjoyable and interesting.