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UNINA9910465570203321 |
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Wyss Robert |
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Titolo |
The man who built the Sierra Club : a life of David Brower / / Robert Wyss ; cover design, Archie Ferguson |
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New York, New York ; ; Chichester, [England] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (425 p.) |
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Environmentalists - United States |
Conservationists - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. First Fight -- 2. Mountains -- 3. The Club -- 4. The Lesson -- 5. Wilderness -- 6. Forest -- 7. Parks -- 8. Glen Canyon -- 9. Progress -- 10. Books -- 11. Escalating the Risks -- 12. Grand Canyon -- 13. Losing While Winning -- 14. Diablo and Galápagos -- 15. Conflict -- 16. Campaign -- 17. Echoes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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David Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing.As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra |
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Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time. |
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UNINA9910673070403321 |
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Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict [[electronic resource] ] : Challenges for Societal Stability / / edited by Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Hans Günter Brauch, Peter Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 |
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1-280-79404-6 |
9786613704436 |
3-642-28626-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (868 p.) |
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Collana |
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Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, , 1865-5793 ; ; 8 |
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Geography |
Climate change |
Economics |
Management science |
Environment |
Geography, general |
Climate Change Management and Policy |
Economics, general |
Environment, general |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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"With 159 figures and 67 tables." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I Introduction -- Part II Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages -- Part III Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse -- Part IV Climate Change and Migration -- Part V Climate Change and Security in the Middle East -- Part VI Climate Change and Security in Africa -- Part VII Climate Change and Security in Asia and the Pacific -- Part VIII Improving Climate Security: Cooperative Policies and Capacity-Building -- Part IX Conclusions and Outlook -- Abbreviations -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index. |
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Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict? This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society interaction. |
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