Books by Robert E. Manning

  •  Parks and Carrying Capacity
    Parks and Carrying Capacity Robert E. Manning

    Jazz on the river

    Parks and Carrying Capacity

    Commons Without Tragedy

    Robert E. Manning

    How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each ...

  •  Reconstructing Conservation

    Jazz on the river

    Reconstructing Conservation

    Finding Common Ground

    Ben A. Minteer

    In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocative ...

About the Author

Robert E. Manning is Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Vermont and author of Studies in Outdoor Recreation (Oregon State University Press, 1986).