- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustration
- Preface
-
Section One Mission and Relevance of National Parks -
One Parks, Biodiversity, and Education: An Essay and Discussion -
Two Seas the Day: A Bluer, Saltier Second Century for American Parks -
Three A Global Perspective on Parks and Protected Areas -
Four Strategic Conversation: Mission and Relevance of National Parks -
Section Two Stewardship of Parks in a Changing World -
Five Climate Change and Novel Disturbance Regimes in National Park Landscapes -
Six Climate Change Trends, Impacts, and Vulnerabilities in US National Parks -
Seven Protecting National Parks from Air Pollution Effects: Making Sausage from Science and Policy -
Eight Biological Invasions in the National Parks and in Park Science -
Nine The Science and Challenges of Conserving Large Wild Mammals in 21st-Century American Protected Areas -
Ten Strategic Conversation: Stewardship of Parks in a Changing World -
Section Three Engaging People in Parks -
Eleven The Tangled Web of People, Landscapes, and Protected Areas -
Twelve Science, Values, and Conflict in the National Parks -
Thirteen The World Is a Park: Using Citizen Science to Engage People in Parks and Build the Next Century of Global Stewards -
Fourteen The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Nature: Inspiring Connections between People and Parks -
Fifteen Strategic Conversation: Engaging and Disengaging People in Parks -
Section Four Future of Science, Conservation, and Parks -
Sixteen A New Kind of Eden -
Seventeen The Near-Horizon Future of Science and the National Parks -
Eighteen Science, Parks, and Conservation in a Rapidly Changing World -
Appendix Historical Connections between UC Berkeley, the Birth of the US National Park Service, and the Growth of Science in Parks - About the Contributors
- Index
Protecting National Parks from Air Pollution Effects: Making Sausage from Science and Policy
Protecting National Parks from Air Pollution Effects: Making Sausage from Science and Policy
- Chapter:
- (p.141) Seven Protecting National Parks from Air Pollution Effects: Making Sausage from Science and Policy
- Source:
- Science, Conservation, and National Parks
- Author(s):
Jill S. Baron
Tamara Blett
William C. Malm
Ruth M. Alexander
Holly Doremus
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The story of air pollution research, policy development, and management in national parks is a fascinating blend of cultural change, vision, interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration, and science-policy-management-stakeholder collaborations. Unable to ignore the loss of iconic vistas from regional haze and loss of fish from acid rain in the 1980s, the US National Park Service (NPS) embraced an obligation to protect resources from threats originating outside park boundaries. Upholding the Organic Act requirement for parks to remain “unimpaired” for the enjoyment of future generations, and using the Clean Air Act statement that the NPS has an “affirmative responsibility” to protect park resources, the NPS has supported, and effectively used, research as a means to protect lands, waters, and vistas from a mostly unseen threat. Using visibility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition as examples, we illustrate some success stories where the NPS led the way to benefit not only parks, but the nation.
Keywords: acid rain, air pollution, atmospheric deposition, national parks, nitrogen deposition, visibility
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustration
- Preface
-
Section One Mission and Relevance of National Parks -
One Parks, Biodiversity, and Education: An Essay and Discussion -
Two Seas the Day: A Bluer, Saltier Second Century for American Parks -
Three A Global Perspective on Parks and Protected Areas -
Four Strategic Conversation: Mission and Relevance of National Parks -
Section Two Stewardship of Parks in a Changing World -
Five Climate Change and Novel Disturbance Regimes in National Park Landscapes -
Six Climate Change Trends, Impacts, and Vulnerabilities in US National Parks -
Seven Protecting National Parks from Air Pollution Effects: Making Sausage from Science and Policy -
Eight Biological Invasions in the National Parks and in Park Science -
Nine The Science and Challenges of Conserving Large Wild Mammals in 21st-Century American Protected Areas -
Ten Strategic Conversation: Stewardship of Parks in a Changing World -
Section Three Engaging People in Parks -
Eleven The Tangled Web of People, Landscapes, and Protected Areas -
Twelve Science, Values, and Conflict in the National Parks -
Thirteen The World Is a Park: Using Citizen Science to Engage People in Parks and Build the Next Century of Global Stewards -
Fourteen The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Nature: Inspiring Connections between People and Parks -
Fifteen Strategic Conversation: Engaging and Disengaging People in Parks -
Section Four Future of Science, Conservation, and Parks -
Sixteen A New Kind of Eden -
Seventeen The Near-Horizon Future of Science and the National Parks -
Eighteen Science, Parks, and Conservation in a Rapidly Changing World -
Appendix Historical Connections between UC Berkeley, the Birth of the US National Park Service, and the Growth of Science in Parks - About the Contributors
- Index
