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Nature 452, 812-813 (17 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452812a; Published online 16 April 2008
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Research Fellow in Bone-ligamentous Tissue Scaffolds
- University of Leeds
- Leeds, UK
Faculty Position
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- St Louis, MO 63132 United States
Blazing a new trail for nature
Jon Christensen1
Abstract
Could the army of green workers who transformed the US landscape inspire today's ecological revolution?
BOOK REVIEWED-Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
by Neil M. Maher
Oxford University Press: 2007. 328 pp. $35
Imagine a government agency that transforms people's relationship with nature, creates millions of jobs and helps pull a nation out of an economic nadir. While political pundits on the left and right nit-pick, citizens embrace the agency's programme and forge a new constituency and political consensus that lasts for generations.
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