Rutherford H. Platt (1)

Author of Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy

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About the Author

Rutherford H. Platt is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Lifetime National Associate of The National Academies. He is the author of Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events and Reclaiming American Cities: The Struggle for People, show more Place, and Nature Since 1900, among many other publications. Piatt has served on various panels of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council and has consulted with diverse federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations. show less

Works by Rutherford H. Platt

The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (1994) 24 copies

Disasters and Democracy: The Politics Of Extreme Natural Events (1999) 17 copies

The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City [With DVD] (Published in Association With the Lincoln… (2006) 12 copies

Beyond the urban fringe, land use issues of nonmetropolitan America (1983) 3 copies

Reclaiming American Cities: The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900 (2013) 3 copies

Open land in Urban Illinois: Roles of the citizen advocate (1971) 2 copies

Coastal erosion : has retreat sounded? (1992) 1 copy

Discover American trees 1 copy

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The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban… by Rutherford H. Platt

Some of the articles in this collection are quite good and raise compelling points about urban ecology, others are of limited interest and will put you to sleep.

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