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Unlikely Environmentalists

Congress and Clean Water, 1955-1972

by Paul Charles Milazzo
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Environmental activism has most often been credited to grassroots protesters, but much early progress in environmental protection originated in the halls of Congress. As Paul Milazzo shows, a coterie of unlikely environmentalists placed water quality issues on the national agenda as early as the 1950s...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way...
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Cleaner, Greener, Healthier

A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies

by David R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the...
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Forcing the Spring

The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005

"...[a] provocative and original account..." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movemthat emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not...
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A Fierce Green Fire

The American Environmental Movement

by Philip Shabecoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movemand the political, economic, social, and...
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Better Environmental Policy Studies

How To Design And Conduct More Effective Analyses

by Lawrence Susskind, Ravi K. Jain, Andrew O. Martyniuk
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Environmental policy studies commissioned by governmagencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they provide much-needed insight into policy options and specific recommendations for action. But the results of even the mrigorous studies are frequently misappropriated...
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Environmental Policy in North America

Approaches, Capacity, and the Management of Transboundary Issues

by Robert G. Healy, Debora L. VanNijnatten, Marcela López-Vallejo
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. The...
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Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants

Volume 2: Non-Biological Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies explains the role of green engineering and social responsibility in the development of chemicals, processes, products, and systems. Examining the relationship between economy, ecology, and equality—key factors in developing a sustainable society—this...
Cover of Understanding Environmental Administration and Law, 3rd Edition
by Susan J. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Understanding Environmental Administration and Law provides an engaging, introductory overview of environmental policy. Author Susan J. Buck explores the process through which policy is made, the political environmin which it is applied, and the statutory and case laws that are critical to working...
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Environmental Activism on the Ground

Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

by Jessica DeWitt, Sterling Evans, Zoltan Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement...
Cover of An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain
by John Sheail
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002

Environmental history - the history of the relationship between people and the natural world - is a dynamic and increasingly important field. In An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain, John Sheail breaks new ground in illustrating how some of the most pressing concerns came to be recognised,...
Cover of Today's Environmental Issues: Democrats and Republicans
by Teri J. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Today's Environmental Issues: Democrats and Republicans presents a unique perspective on party politics—one that impartially identifies similarities and differences regarding an array of topics ranging from fracking, sustainability, and pesticides to logging and noise pollution. Essays provide both...
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Occupy the Earth

Global Environmental Movements

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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

The onset of global concerns about environmental risks, climate change and threats to the planet from industry have focused the minds of a generation. Throughout the world, new movements are emerging in an attempt to challenge those who would put profits before the planet. This volume brings together...
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