1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002019930203316

Autore

WARD, W. E. F.

Titolo

Educating young nations / W. E. F. Ward ; with a foreword by H. L. Elvin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Allen und Unwin, 1959

Descrizione fisica

196 p. ; 20 cm

Collocazione

II.4. 2652(VI C 1357)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822585303321

Autore

Wyss Robert

Titolo

The man who built the Sierra Club : a life of David Brower / / Robert Wyss ; cover design, Archie Ferguson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Chichester, [England] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-54131-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

333.72092

Soggetti

Environmentalists - United States

Conservationists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 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.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815024203321

Autore

Lévesque Étienne

Titolo

La métamorphose : réintroduire l'être humain dans les écosystèmes / / Etienne Levesque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

2-14-001578-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Collana

Questions contemporaines

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Social change - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.