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Wildfire and Americans: How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars
by Kennedy, Roger G. | HC | Good
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- ISBN
- 9780809065813
- Book Title
- Wildfire and Americans : How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars
- Item Length
- 11.1in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Nature, Social Science
- Topic
- Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, General, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 332 Pages
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Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the Pajarito Plateau and into Los Alamos. Two hundred and thirty-five homes were destroyed, more than 45,000 acres of forest were burned, and the nation's nuclear laboratories were threatened; even before the embers had died a blame game erupted. Kennedy's career as a public servant, which encompasses appointments under five presidential administrations, convinced him that the tragedy would produce scapegoats and misinformation, and leave American lives at risk. That was unacceptable, even unforgivable. """" "Wildfire and Americans "is a passionate, deeply informed appeal that we acknowledge wildfire not as a fire problem but as a people problem. Americans are in the wrong places, damningly because they were encouraged to settle there. Politicians, scientists, and CEOs acting out of patriotism, hubris, and greed have placed their fellow countrymen in harm's way. And now, with global warming, we inhabit a landscape that has become much more dangerous. Grounded in the conviction that we owe a duty to our environment and our fellow man, "Wildfire and Americans "is more than a depiction of policies gone terribly awry. It is a plea to acknowledge the mercy we owe nature and mankind.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0809065819
ISBN-13
9780809065813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48617211
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wildfire and Americans : How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Nature, Social Science
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.1in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ht123.K45 2006
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"Roger Kennedy has written a valuable book that all taxpayers in the country should read. Long standing policies designed with the best intentions encouraged many Americans to build houses in unsafe places. When threatened by fire and flood the taxpayer is often called upon to bail them out. Kennedy rightfully calls for a rational approach to our policies supporting home construction to ensure that we are not jeopardizing lives and property, while imposing high burdens on the US taxpayer."--Theodore Roosevelt IV "Eloquent and incisive, old-government-hand Kennedy shows how a set of wrong policies can do increasing harm for decades, yet become entrenched despite gross failure. The book is a masterpiece of details, not only of the specifics of fire and land-use misplanning, but of the whole historic narrative that got us into the fix. That perspective enables him to show a way out." --Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation "Equal parts detective story, Cold War mystery, environmental history lesson, and policy treatise, Roger Kennedy's "Wildfire and Americans" offers an unsurpassed investigation into the root causes of runaway wildfires." --Don Chen, Executive Director, Smart Growth America "Americans seem increasingly determined to locate in the path of natural disaster, be it flood or fire. Kennedy's almost renaissance review of the dangers and the solutions is must reading, especially in light of Katrina and the recent great fires of the West and Southwest." --Parris N. Glendening, Governor of Maryland 1995-2003 "It's the most enjoyable thing I've read in a long time [and] will simply require everyone to get serious about the intellectual and historicaldimensions of our fire landscape, which is to say, ourselves. Well done!" --Steve Pyne, author of ""Tending Fire. Coping with """"America""""'s Wildland Fires ""and ""Fire: A Brief History"" """" "A wonderful contribution! Kennedy reaches into the depths of public policy, ethics, and ecology to draw out practical solutions that will allow us to respect each other, respect fire, and live more lightly on the land."" --"William L. Baker," Professor of Geography, University of Wyoming" """" "I would like every architect, planner, developer, real estate sales person, and public administrator and elected official to read and contemplate this work." --"W. Cecil Steward, FAIA, President, Joslyn Castle Institute, Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Professor, University of Nebraska College of Architecture." Praise for "Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause": "Forces us to reconsider settled opinions." ---Wall Street Journal "Well-researched, well-written and provocative." ---Santa Fe New Mexican Praise for "Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson": "Roger Kennedy comes out of a lengthy political career and writes with the authority of a man who has walked the corridors of power." ---Men's Journal, "It's the most enjoyable thing I've read in a long time [and] will simply require everyone to get serious about the intellectual and historical dimensions of our fire landscape, which is to say, ourselves. Well done!" Steve Pyne, author of Tending Fire. Coping with America's Wildland Fires and Fire: A Brief History "A wonderful contribution! Kennedy reaches into the depths of public policy, ethics, and ecology to draw out practical solutions that will allow us to respect each other, respect fire, and live more lightly on the land." William L. Baker, Professor of Geography, University of Wyoming "I would like ever architect, planner, developer, real estate sales person, and public administrator and elected official to read and contemplate this work." W. Cecil Steward, FAIA, President, Joslyn Castle Institute, Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Professor, University of Nebraska College of Architecture. Praise for Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: "Forces us to reconsider settled opinions." ---Wall Street Journal "Well-researched, well-written and provocative." ---Santa Fe New Mexican Praise for Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: "Roger Kennedy comes out of a lengthy political career and writes with the authority of a man who has walked the corridors of power." ---Men's Journal, "Eloquent and incisive, old-government-hand Kennedy shows how a set of wrong policies can do increasing harm for decades, yet become entrenched despite gross failure. The book is a masterpiece of details, not only of the specifics of fire and land-use misplanning, but of the whole historic narrative that got us into the fix. That perspective enables him to show a way out." --Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation "Equal parts detective story, Cold War mystery, environmental history lesson, and policy treatise, Roger Kennedy's Wildfire and Americans offers an unsurpassed investigation into the root causes of runaway wildfires." --Don Chen, Executive Director, Smart Growth America "Americans seem increasingly determined to locate in the path of natural disaster, be it flood or fire. Kennedy's almost renaissance review of the dangers and the solutions is must reading, especially in light of Katrina and the recent great fires of the West and Southwest." --Parris N. Glendening, Governor of Maryland 1995-2003 "It's the most enjoyable thing I've read in a long time [and] will simply require everyone to get serious about the intellectual and historical dimensions of our fire landscape, which is to say, ourselves. Well done!" --Steve Pyne, author of Tending Fire. Coping with America's Wildland Fires and Fire: A Brief History "A wonderful contribution! Kennedy reaches into the depths of public policy, ethics, and ecology to draw out practical solutions that will allow us to respect each other, respect fire, and live more lightly on the land." --William L. Baker, Professor of Geography, University of Wyoming "I would like every architect, planner, developer, real estate sales person, and public administrator and elected official to read and contemplate this work." --W. Cecil Steward, FAIA, President, Joslyn Castle Institute, Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Professor, University of Nebraska College of Architecture. Praise for Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: "Forces us to reconsider settled opinions." ---Wall Street Journal "Well-researched, well-written and provocative." ---Santa Fe New Mexican Praise for Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: "Roger Kennedy comes out of a lengthy political career and writes with the authority of a man who has walked the corridors of power." ---Men's Journal
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-025914
Dewey Decimal
307.760973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
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