Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism : : How to Fight Development in Your Community / / Judith Perlman.

Is there anything you can do when development threatens your local forest, beach, prairie, or wetland? Yes, there is. Across America, citizen activists are fighting and winning battles against unwanted development in their own communities. To help you resist the urban sprawl and absentee landowners...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2004
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (179 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE IDENTIFY THE ISSUES
  • CHAPTER TWO GET INVOLVED (One Person Can Do a Lot)
  • CHAPTER THREE DEVISE A STRATEGY (Which Way Should We Go?)
  • CHAPTER FOUR HIRE COUNSEL (‘‘The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers’’)
  • CHAPTER FIVE BUILD A COALITION AND PARTNERSHIPS (Strange Bedfellows)
  • CHAPTER SIX INFLUENCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Meetings, Meetings, Meetings)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN CONDUCT A MEDIA CAMPAIGN (Opening Pandora’s Box)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT FUND-RAISING (Money Makes the World Go ’Round)
  • CHAPTER NINE OPPOSING THE DEVELOPER (Bluster, Bully, and Bluff)
  • CHAPTER TEN MANAGING THE PROCESS (Roller-coaster Ride)
  • Index