America's Climate choices [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on America's Climate Choices |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.73874 |
Soggetto topico | Climatic changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-13491-8
9786613134912 0-309-14586-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Front Matter""; ""Foreword: America's Climate Choices""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 The Context for America's Climate Choices""; ""2 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change""; ""3 The Unique Challenges of Climate Change""; ""4 A Framework for Making America's Climate Choices""; ""5 Key Elements of America's Climate Choices""; ""Notes and References""; ""Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists""; ""Appendix B: Committee on America's Climate Choices Member Biographical Sketches""
""Appendix C: Additional Information Regarding the Content of the ACC Panel Reports""""Appendix D: Agenda from the Summit on America's Climate Choices""; ""Appendix E: Acronyms and Initialisms"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457005503321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America's Climate choices [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on America's Climate Choices |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.73874 |
Soggetto topico | Climatic changes |
ISBN |
0-309-30553-5
1-283-13491-8 9786613134912 0-309-14586-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Front Matter""; ""Foreword: America's Climate Choices""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 The Context for America's Climate Choices""; ""2 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change""; ""3 The Unique Challenges of Climate Change""; ""4 A Framework for Making America's Climate Choices""; ""5 Key Elements of America's Climate Choices""; ""Notes and References""; ""Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists""; ""Appendix B: Committee on America's Climate Choices Member Biographical Sketches""
""Appendix C: Additional Information Regarding the Content of the ACC Panel Reports""""Appendix D: Agenda from the Summit on America's Climate Choices""; ""Appendix E: Acronyms and Initialisms"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781333303321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America's Climate choices / / Committee on America's Climate Choices |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.73874 |
Soggetto topico | Climatic changes |
ISBN |
0-309-30553-5
1-283-13491-8 9786613134912 0-309-14586-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Front Matter""; ""Foreword: America's Climate Choices""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 The Context for America's Climate Choices""; ""2 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change""; ""3 The Unique Challenges of Climate Change""; ""4 A Framework for Making America's Climate Choices""; ""5 Key Elements of America's Climate Choices""; ""Notes and References""; ""Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists""; ""Appendix B: Committee on America's Climate Choices Member Biographical Sketches""
""Appendix C: Additional Information Regarding the Content of the ACC Panel Reports""""Appendix D: Agenda from the Summit on America's Climate Choices""; ""Appendix E: Acronyms and Initialisms"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811886803321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The American environment revisited : environmental historical geographies of the United States / / edited by Geoffrey L. Buckley, Yolonda Youngs |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.700973 |
Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - United States |
ISBN | 1-4422-6997-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The American Environment Revisited -- Part I. NATURE GONE WILD -- Chapter One. Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South -- Chapter Two. Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes -- Chapter Three. From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States -- Part II. PARKS AND RECREATION -- Chapter Four. Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in US National Parks -- Chapter Five. Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation -- Chapter Six. Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South -- Chapter Seven. Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports -- Part III. LIVING IN THE CITY -- Chapter Eight. Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan -- Chapter Nine. Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice -- Chapter Ten. Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape -- Part IV. TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter Eleven. Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland -- Chapter Twelve. Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California -- Chapter Thirteen. Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912 -- Chapter Fourteen. Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics -- Part V. EYE ON NATURE -- Chapter Fifteen. Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History -- Chapter Sixteen. American Environmental Photography -- Chapter Seventeen. Environments of the Imagination -- Afterword -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796988803321 |
Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The American environment revisited : environmental historical geographies of the United States / / edited by Geoffrey L. Buckley, Yolonda Youngs |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.700973 |
Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - United States |
ISBN | 1-4422-6997-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The American Environment Revisited -- Part I. NATURE GONE WILD -- Chapter One. Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South -- Chapter Two. Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes -- Chapter Three. From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States -- Part II. PARKS AND RECREATION -- Chapter Four. Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in US National Parks -- Chapter Five. Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation -- Chapter Six. Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South -- Chapter Seven. Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports -- Part III. LIVING IN THE CITY -- Chapter Eight. Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan -- Chapter Nine. Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice -- Chapter Ten. Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape -- Part IV. TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter Eleven. Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland -- Chapter Twelve. Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California -- Chapter Thirteen. Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912 -- Chapter Fourteen. Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics -- Part V. EYE ON NATURE -- Chapter Fifteen. Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History -- Chapter Sixteen. American Environmental Photography -- Chapter Seventeen. Environments of the Imagination -- Afterword -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828159903321 |
Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Pres, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - United States - History
Geographical perception - United States Wilderness areas - United States - Public opinion Human beings - Effect of environment on - United States Public opinion - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-52903-6
9786611529031 0-19-803882-8 1-4294-6068-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; One: American Wilderness: An Introduction; Two: American Wilderness and First Contact; Three: Religion ""Irradiates"" the Wilderness; Four: Farm against Forest; Five: Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau; Six: The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of ""Nature's Nation""; Seven: Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents; Eight: A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservationism; Nine: Gender and Wilderness Conservation
Ten: Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness IdeaEleven: Loving the Wild in Postwar America; Twelve: Wilderness and Conservation Science; Thirteen: Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept; Fourteen: The Politics of Modern Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451802803321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Pres, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Pres, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - United States - History
Geographical perception - United States Wilderness areas - United States - Public opinion Human beings - Effect of environment on - United States Public opinion - United States |
ISBN |
0-19-771132-4
0-19-988396-3 1-281-52903-6 9786611529031 0-19-803882-8 1-4294-6068-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; One: American Wilderness: An Introduction; Two: American Wilderness and First Contact; Three: Religion ""Irradiates"" the Wilderness; Four: Farm against Forest; Five: Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau; Six: The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of ""Nature's Nation""; Seven: Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents; Eight: A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservationism; Nine: Gender and Wilderness Conservation
Ten: Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness IdeaEleven: Loving the Wild in Postwar America; Twelve: Wilderness and Conservation Science; Thirteen: Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept; Fourteen: The Politics of Modern Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777784703321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Pres, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American wilderness : a new history / / edited by Michael Lewis |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Pres, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LewisMichael L. <1971-> |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - United States - History
Geographical perception - United States Wilderness areas - United States - Public opinion Human beings - Effect of environment on - United States Public opinion - United States |
ISBN |
0-19-771132-4
0-19-988396-3 1-281-52903-6 9786611529031 0-19-803882-8 1-4294-6068-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; One: American Wilderness: An Introduction; Two: American Wilderness and First Contact; Three: Religion ""Irradiates"" the Wilderness; Four: Farm against Forest; Five: Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau; Six: The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of ""Nature's Nation""; Seven: Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents; Eight: A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservationism; Nine: Gender and Wilderness Conservation
Ten: Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness IdeaEleven: Loving the Wild in Postwar America; Twelve: Wilderness and Conservation Science; Thirteen: Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept; Fourteen: The Politics of Modern Wilderness; Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality; Recommended Readings; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818082803321 |
New York, : Oxford University Pres, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Assessing climate change impacts on the United States [[electronic resource] /] / Alex B. McNeill, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.738740973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McNeillAlex B |
Collana | Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - United States
Climatic changes - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61668-537-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457919503321 |
New York, : Nova Science Publishers, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Assessing climate change impacts on the United States [[electronic resource] /] / Alex B. McNeill, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.738740973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McNeillAlex B |
Collana | Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - United States
Climatic changes - United States |
ISBN | 1-61668-537-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779095103321 |
New York, : Nova Science Publishers, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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