The environmental debate : a documentary history with timeline, glossary, and appendices / / edited by Peninah Neimark and Peter Rhoades Mott

• Pubblicazione: Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2017]; �2017
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 347 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 333.720973
• Soggetto topico: Environmentalism - United States - History
• Persona (resp. second.): NeimarkPeninah <1938->; MottPeter Rhoades
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of American environmental thought and action -- Part II. Politicians, naturalists, and artists in the new nation, 1776-1839 -- Part III. The origins of environmental activism, 1840-1889 -- Part IV. The roots of the conservation movement, 1890-1919 -- Part V. Rethinking our relationship to nature, 1920-1959 -- Part VI. The heyday of the environmental movement, 1960-1979 -- Part VII. Confronting economic and social realities, 1980-1999 -- Appendix I: Significant dates in American environmental history -- Appendix II: Major conservation and environmental organizations -- Glossary -- Further readings -- Copyright acknowledgments.
• Sommario/riassunto: This unique collection of Primary Documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, climate change, and resource conservation in America from the Colonial period the present.
• Titolo autorizzato: The environmental debate
• ISBN: 1-78684-674-8; 1-68217-551-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823089703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II