In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledg
Journalist Dowie weaves a spellbinding tale, from the movement's conservationist origins as a handful of rich white men's hunting clubs, through the evolution in the 1960s and '70s into a powerful pol
In The Haida Gwaii Lesson, former University of California journalism professor and Mother Jones editor Mark Dowie shares the story of the Haida people, relating their struggle for sovereignty and tit
A recent history replete with compromise and capitulation has pushed a once promisingand effective political movement to the brink of irrelevance.So states Mark Dowie in thisprovocative critique of th
Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these area
In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledg
Describes how natives peoples, including the Miwoks of Yosemite and the Maasai of eastern Africa, have been displaced from their lands in the name of nature conservation.