{"id":670,"date":"2016-02-17T19:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/professor-halfacre-writes-book-on-culture-of-conservation-in-south-carolina-lowcountry\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:01:01","slug":"professor-halfacre-writes-book-on-culture-of-conservation-in-south-carolina-lowcountry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-halfacre-writes-book-on-culture-of-conservation-in-south-carolina-lowcountry\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Halfacre writes book on culture of conservation in South Carolina Lowcountry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/halfacre-book-cover1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3646 lazyload\" title=\"halfacre-book-cover\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/halfacre-book-cover1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JULY 31, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University professor Angela C. Halfacre has written a book about South Carolina\u2019s Lowcountry and why its powerful conservation culture represents a model for the nation.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry<\/em> is published by University of South Carolina Press.<\/p>\n<p>Halfacre is the director of Furman\u2019s David E. Shi Center for Sustainability and a professor in the political science and earth and environmental sciences departments.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Delicate Balance<\/em> is the first book to examine how a multi-layered culture of environmental conservation and sustainable development has emerged in the Lowcountry. Halfacre describes how sprawl shock, natural disasters, climate change, and other factors spawned and sustain\u2014but at times also threaten and hinder\u2014the culture of conservation.<\/p>\n<p>She says fostering such a culture involves a delicate balancing of economic development and environmental preservation, especially in a region distinctive for its natural beauty and reliance on tourism. Based on 14 years of research, <em>A Delicate Balance <\/em>uses interdisciplinary literature and ethnographic, historical, and spatial methods to show how growing numbers of Lowcountry residents, bolstered by substantial political, corporate, and media support, have sought to maintain the region&#8217;s unique sense of place as well as its fragile ecology.<\/p>\n<p>Halfacre joined the Furman faculty in 2008. A native of Clemson, she holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Furman, and master\u2019s and doctorate degrees from the University of Florida. Halfacre has published numerous, peer-reviewed journal articles on environmental and community perceptions and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>More information about <em>A Delicate Balance<\/em> can be found <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc.edu\/uscpress\/books\/2012\/7071.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, or contact Angela Halfacre at 864-294-3655, or <a href=\"mailto:angela.halfacre@furman.edu\">angela.halfacre@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 31, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Furman professor Angela Halfacre has written a book about South Carolina\u2019s Lowcountry and why its powerful conservation culture represents a model for the nation.\u00a0<em>A Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry<\/em> is published by University of South Carolina Press.\u00a0Halfacre is the director of the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability and a professor in the political science and earth and environmental sciences departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,37,32,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}