Nature and Bureaucracy

This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality.

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David Jenkins has 12 years of experience working in U.S. land management agencies. Prior to that he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bates College and conducted research at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His research publications span a range of topics, including myth, social organization, kinship, exchange networks, museums, ethnographic photography, environmental values, endangered species, resource exploitation, subsistence fisheries, autobiography, and the use of mathematical models in anthropology.

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Introduction: The Wild Garden PART I The Bureaucracy of Nature 1. Against Efficiency: Why We Cut Trees (And What Happens When We Do) 2. When the Well Runs Dry: Aquifers, Canals, and the Colorado River System 3. Atlantic Salmon, Endangered Species, and the Failure of Environmental Policies 4. Count Every Fish: Nonmarket Fishing Economies on the Yukon River 5. Managing Natural Resources in Alaska: Anthropology Bureaucratized PART II The Nature of Bureaucracy 6. Traditional Bureaucratic Knowledge: The Order of Rules 7. Bureaucratic Management of Wildlife: Wolves in the State of Alaska 8. Enemy Ancestors 9. To Save the Spiritual 10. Traditional Ecological Knowledge 11. The Dharma of Nature