The People's Path: Conflict and Cooperation in the Acquisition of the Appalachian Trail

Mittlefehldt, Sarah

doi:10.1093/envhis/emq087

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“…Although towns share similar values, such as securing wealth, wellbeing, and skills from their land and businesses, they are not united around trail issues, partially because of the lack of a crisis (especially a widespread single issue) that warrants such an action. This is consistent with historical patterns exhibited by locals adjacent to the AT or national parks (Mittlefehldt 2010(Mittlefehldt , 2013. Because residents lack organization, they likely will experience interactions with trail advocates, users, or land managers as separate incidents.…”

Section: Social Processsupporting

confidence: 86%

Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest

Clark¹,

Hohl²,

Picard³

et al. 2015

Springer Series on Environmental Management

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The Springer Series on Environmental Management is concerned with humanity's stewardship of the environment, our use of natural resources, and the ways in which we can mitigate environmental hazards and reduce risks. The main focus of the series is on applied ecology in the widest sense of the term, in theory and in practice, and above all in the marriage of sound principles with pragmatic innovation. It focuses on the definition and monitoring of environmental problems and the search for solutions to them at scales that vary from global to local according to the scope of analysis. No particular academic discipline dominates the series, for environmental problems are interdisciplinary almost by definition. The volumes include a wide variety of specialties, from oceanography to economics, sociology to silviculture, toxicology to policy studies.The series contributes to the immense effort by ecologists of all persuasions to nurture an environment that is both stable and productive. Increasing rate of resource use, population growth, and armed conflict have tended to magnify and complicate environmental problems that were already difficult to solve a century ago. Attempts to modify nature for the benefit of humankind have often had unintended consequences, especially in the disruption of natural equilibria. Yet, at the same time human ingenuity has developed a new range of sophisticated and powerful techniques for solving environmental problems, such as pollution monitoring, restoration ecology, landscape planning, risk management, and impact assessment. The Springer Series on Environmental Management sheds light on the problems of the modern environment and contributes to the further development of solutions. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher's location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply , even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective...

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Section: Social Processsupporting

confidence: 86%

Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest

Clark¹,

Hohl²,

Picard³

et al. 2015

Springer Series on Environmental Management

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“…In such a context, decisions should be taken in the future in order to contribute to the sustainable development of not only agro-industrial production, but also rural areas in general [108]. Considering the unity of all retrieved documents and the aforementioned analysis of them, it can be argued that the development of landscape routes to serve human passengers of transportation, walkers and hikers is not new but it has been chronologically seen dating back to the 1980s [109], and geographically dispersed in areas such as the Appalachian Mountains in eastern North America [110,111], South-Central New Mexico, US [112] and in Eastern (mainly mountainous) Europe [70]. In such a geographical context trail paths are inseparable assets of tourism development in which further preservation, protection, and promotion of the countryside, cultural heritage, and tradition, are achievable, while the provision of effective protection and management of areas of exceptional natural beauty and sensitive ecosystems with wildlife should be also undertaken.…”

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confidence: 99%

Land Use Planning and Green Environment Services: The Contribution of Trail Paths to Sustainable Development

Kyriakopoulos

2023

Land

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Recently land-use planning and green environment services have been considered as inseparable parts of the design of trail paths for a sustainable development. At present there is need of a holistic overview of land uses and land cover, to be linked with the natural environment and regional development. The key determinants of such an approach embody changes in the wake of drivers and anthropocentric changes as well as changes in global greenhouse gases, causing climate change and affecting global biodiversity. In this study the key determinants and the main research objects of previously developed studies were systematically approached by a search of the literature through the Scopus database using these four fields of keywords: (a) “land use” AND environment AND development, (b) “trail path” in the “article titles” AND the subcategory of “land”, (c) “land use” AND “sustainable development”, and, (d) “sustainable” AND “trail”. The derived documents were collected and organized into the following four main domains, being paired together by: (a) year and country/territory, and, (b) keyword and subject area. The classification of the documents was followed by the calculation of relevant “intensity ratios” as key determinants that disclose the well-defined and the emerging fields of further perspectives regarding land use planning and the particular emerging dynamics of the development of trail paths.

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“…535). Initially called the Appalachian Scenic Highway, the BRP was among the largest of the Roosevelt administration’s projects, and it involved several New Deal programmes: the Resettlement Administration relocated the local inhabitants on the proposed route; the Public Works Administration funded it; the NPS and the Bureau of Public Roads managed it; and the Civilian Conservation Corps, with the Works Progress Administration, built it (Mittefedht, 2010, p. 65). All the government agencies agreed on the concept of this tourist attraction: a pastoral, scenic America experienced at 35 miles per hour.…”

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Creating and Managing a Radically Edited Cultural Landscape: The Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States

Kapp

2023

Journal of Heritage Management

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This article explores how a contrived heritage tourism landscape was created, how its identity was marketed, and how it has influenced the culture of the contiguous region in which it resides in. During the Great Depression, the designers from the U.S. National Park Service manipulated the authenticity of the indigenous architecture and radically edited the mountain landscape in Virginia and North Carolina to create an institutionalized super-scenic motorway—the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP). Spanning over four hundred miles, the BRP promotes early American mountain culture. As it approaches its centennial year of being authorized by the U.S. Congress, this recreational road continues to be a popular heritage site and supports the regional economy through heritage tourism. However, does the planning of the parkway and the management of its identity convey the region’s historic mountain culture or has it always been a created landscape for tourism that is based on a formal construct of a heritage idea, created by its designers? And for the American tourist experiencing the BRP, what is more important: the authenticity of the regional heritage or the authenticity of the contrived artefact simply put, the scenic road?

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The People's Path: Conflict and Cooperation in the Acquisition of the Appalachian Trail

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest

Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest

Land Use Planning and Green Environment Services: The Contribution of Trail Paths to Sustainable Development

Creating and Managing a Radically Edited Cultural Landscape: The Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States

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