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Beckmann, Andreas, Ladislav PtáčDek, Brent Mitchell, Miroslav Kundrata, and Rafal Serafin. Caring for the Land: A Decade of Promoting Landscape Stewardship in Central Europe. Czech Republic: Environmental Partnership for Central Europe Consortium and QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, 2000.

Bernard, Ted, and Jora Young. The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1997.

Beresford, Michael, and Adrian Phillips. "Protected Landscapes: A Conservation Model for the 21st Century." The George Wright Forum 17, no. 1 (2000).

Bray, Paul M., ed. "Taking Stock: Changing Ideas and Visions for Parks." The George Wright Forum 17, no. 2 (2000).

Brick, Philip, Donald Snow, and Sarah Van de Wetering. Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000.

Brown, Jessica, Thomas Cobb, Gary E. Davis, David Harmon, Nora Mitchell, Peter Newman, David Ostergren, David J. Parsons, John Reynolds, Rick Smith, Michael J. Tranel, George N. Wallace, and Stephen Woodley. "Voices from Durban: Reflections on the 2003 World Parks Congress," The George Wright Forum 20, no. 4 (2003)..

Brown, Jessica L., and Brent A. Mitchell, eds. "Stewardship: An International Perspective." Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 26, no. 1 (1998).

Brown, Jessica L., Nora Mitchell, and Fausto Sarmiento, eds. "Landscape Stewardship: New Directions in Conservation of Nature and Culture." The George Wright Forum 17, no. 1 (2000).

Callicott, J. Baird, and Michael P. Nelson, eds. The Great New Wilderness Debate. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Conservation Study Institute, IUCN The World Conservation Union, and QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment. Landscape Conservation: An International Working Session on the Stewardship of Protected Landscapes. Woodstock, VT: Conservation Study Institute, 2001.

Cronon, William, ed. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995.

Diamant, Rolf, J. Glenn Eugster, and Nora J. Mitchell. "Reinventing Conservation: A Practitioner's View." Chapter 19 in Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground. Ben A. Minteer and Robert E. Manning, eds. Washington: Island Press, 2003.

DuPuis, E.M., and P. Vandergeest, eds. Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Finch, Robert, and John Elder, eds. The Norton Book of Nature Writing. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2002.

Howe, Jim, Ed McMahon, and Luther Propst. Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.

Kemf, Elizabeth, ed. The Law of the Mother: Protecting Indigenous Peoples in Protected Areas. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1993.

Kemmis, Daniel. Community and the Politics of Place. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Klyza, Christopher McGrory, ed. Wilderness Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001.

Knight, Richard L., and Peter B. Landres, eds. Stewardship across Boundaries. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998.

Levitt, James N., ed. Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.

Lippard, Lucy R. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: The New Press, 1997.

Machlis, Gary E., and Donald R. Field, eds. National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States.Washington DC: Island Press, 2000.

McKibben, Bill. Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living on the Earth. St. Paul, MN: Hungry Mind Press, 1995.

McNeely, Jeffrey A. Expanding Partnerships in Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995.

Merchant, Carolyn, ed. Major Problems in American Environmental History. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1993.

Mitchell, Nora J., Leslie J. Hudson and Deb Jones, eds. Speaking of the Future: A Dialogue on Conservation. Woodstock, Vermont: Conservation Study Institute, 2003.

Nabhan, Gary Paul. Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997.

National Geographic Society. Rethinking the National Parks for the Twenty-first Century: National Park System Advisory Board Report, 2001. Washington, DC: National Park System Advisory Board, 2001.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd ed. Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou Press, 1982.

Northern Forest Center. Northern Forest Wealth Index: Exploring a Deeper Meaning of Wealth. Concord, NH: Northern Forest Center, 2000.

Phillips, Adrian. "Turning Ideas on Their Head: The New Paradigm of Protected Areas." The George Wright Forum 20, no. 2 (2003).

Pimentel, David, Laura Westra, and Reed F. Noss, eds. Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health. Washington DC: Island Press, 2000.

Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2000.

—. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Richardson, Jean. Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America. Washington DC: Island Press, 2000.

Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience, 3rd ed. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997

Schwartz, Maurice H., ed. "Once Again, Why Public Parks?" The George Wright Forum 19, no. 2 (2002).

Shutkin, William A. The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.

Stolton, Sue, and Nigel Dudley, eds. Partnerships for Protection: New Strategies for Planning and Management for Protected Areas. London: Earthscan Publications, Ltd., 1999.

Trombulak, Stephen C., ed. So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001.

Tuxill, Jacquelyn L., ed. The Landscape of Conservation Stewardship: The Report of the Stewardship Initiative Feasibility Study. Woodstock, VT: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, The Woodstock Foundation, Inc., and Conservation Study Institute, 2000.

Tuxill, Jacquelyn L., and Nora J. Mitchell, eds. Collaboration and Conservation: Lessons Learned in Areas Managed through National Park Service Partnership. Woodstock, VT: Conservation Study Institute, 2001.

Von Droste, Bernd, Harald Plachter, and Mechtild Rössler, eds. Cultural Landscapes of Universal Value: Components of a Global Strategy. Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1995.

Western, David, and R. Michael Wright, eds; Shirley C. Strum, assoc. ed. Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation. Proceedings of a workshop held in Airlee, VA, Oct. 18-22, 1993. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994.

Wondolleck, Julia M., and Steven L.Yaffee. Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000.


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