Research Literature for Park Break 2008
Acadia National Park: Civic Engagement
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT refers to individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts to directly address an issue, work with others in a community to solve a problem or interact with the institutions of representative democracy. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing a combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make a difference.
In the context of parks, civic engagement means using the park itself and its resources as a forum to engage controversial community issues while engaging citizens in the political life of their community.
*See HOMEWORK at the bottom of the page!
Required Readings:
Bremer, S., & Graeff, P. (2007). Volunteer management in German national parks: From random action toward a volunteer program. Human Ecology, 35(4), 489-496.
Brown, R., & Harris, G. (2005).
Co management of wildlife corridors: The case for citizen participation in the
Algonquin to Adirondack proposal. Journal of Environmental Management,
74(2), 97-106.
Crompton, J. L.
(2006). George Melendez
Wright: Pugsley Bronze Medal 1936. Twentieth Century Champions of Parks and
Conservation Volume I. The Pugsley Medal Recipients 1928-1964. Urbana,
Illinois. Sagamore Publishing, (267-270).
de Groot, W.T., & van den Born, R.J.G. (2003). Visions of nature and landscape type preferences: an exploration in The Netherlands. Landscape and Urban Planning, 63 (2003) 127-138.
Delaney, J.M. (2003). Community Capacity Building in the Designation of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve. Gulf and Caribbean Research, Vol. 14(2), 163-169, 2003.
Hernández, J., García, L., & Ayuga, F. (2004). Assessment of the visual impact made on the landscape by new buildings: a methodology for site selection. Landscape and Urban Planning, 68 (2004) 15-28.
National Park Service. Acadia National Park: Aquaculture and Conservation in Coastal Downeast Maine; Experiences from Acadia National Park.
National Park Service. Civic Engagement. Retrieved February 9, 2008, from http://www.nps.gov/civic/.
National Public Radio (2008, February 6). Americans Spending Less Time in Nature. Retrieved February 9, 2008, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18698731.
Parsons, R., & Daniel, T.C. (2002). Good looking: in defense of scenic landscape aesthetics. Landscape and Urban Planning, 60 (2002) 43-56.
Pergams, Oliver R.W., & Zaradic, Patricia A. (2007, December). Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Required Skimming:
National Marine Sanctuaries Webpage
Quebec-Labrador
Foundation: International Programs
Recommended Readings:
Morris, J.M., & McBeth, M.K. (2003). The New West in the context of extractive commodity theory: The case of bison-brucellosis in Yellowstone National Park. The Social Science Journal, 40(2), 233-247.
Smith, L., & Wyckoff, W. (2001). Creating Yellowstone: Montanans in the early park years. Historical Geography, 29, 93-115.
Tilden, F. (1977). Interpreting our heritage (3rd edn.). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
HOMEWORK
Acadia is asking the fellows to evaluate the website and park waysides. There are several pdf. links below. There is no place for response because the staff did not want to limit you all. Please have this prepared by Park Break!2008.
U.S. CODE
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Required Readings:
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321, 4331-4335, 4341-4347, 4361-4370f. Pub. L. 91-190, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 852.
Acadia National Park, ME, 16 U.S.C. §§ 341-343d.
Title16 – Conservation
Chapter1 - National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
Subchapter XXXVII – Acadia National Park
§ 341. Establishment; description of area
§ 342. Administration, protection, and promotion
§ 342a. Extension of boundary limits
§ 342b. Lafayette National Park name changed to Acadia National Park; land unaffected by Federal Power Act
§ 343. Acceptance of property on Mount Desert Island
§ 343a. Naval radio station, Seawall, Maine, as addition to park
§ 343b. Addition of lands
§ 343c. Exchange of lands; Jackson Memorial Laboratory
§ 343c-1. Exchange of lands; Mount Desert Island Regional School District
§ 343c-2. Addition of lands; Jackson Laboratory
§ 343c-3. Conveyance of land; Jackson Laboratory
§ 343c-4. Exchange of lands; Rich property
§ 343d. Exclusion of lands; disposal as surplus property