| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America. By Ben A. Minteer. Cambridge and London, England: MIT Press, 2006. viii + 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $28.00.

Two familiar and laudable goals lie at the heart of The Landscape of Reform. The first is to show that American environmental thought runs deep in the grain of American political culture, and the second is to provide a philosophical rationale for an environmental ethics based on the principle of sustainable use. Minteer pursues these interrelated goals by unearthing a long-obscured connection between American environmentalism and civic pragmatism, which he traces from the early twentieth-century ideas and reform efforts of Liberty Hyde Bailey through Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, Aldo Leopold, and, more recently, the Land Institute and the New Urbanism.

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