Nature and the environment in twentieth-century American life

Resource expansion -- The drive for parks -- Pollution and city life -- Resource management and conservation -- Expansive possibilities : life with the bomb -- Grassroots activism and environmental concern -- Creating a political framework for environmental action -- Green culture -- Going global --...

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1. Verfasser: Black, Brian C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Westport, Conn. u.a. Greenwood Press 2006
Schriftenreihe:Greenwood press "Daily life through history" series Nature and the environment in everyday life
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Zusammenfassung:Resource expansion -- The drive for parks -- Pollution and city life -- Resource management and conservation -- Expansive possibilities : life with the bomb -- Grassroots activism and environmental concern -- Creating a political framework for environmental action -- Green culture -- Going global -- Environmental backlash and growing energy needs -- Sifting through the debris of hurricane Katrina.
Introduction: Designing the human future -- Resource expansion -- The drive for parks -- Pollution and city life -- Resource management and conservation -- Expansive possibilities: life with the bomb -- Grassroots activism and environmental concern -- Creating a political framework for environmental action -- Green culture -- Going global -- Environmental backlash and growing energy needs -- Epilogue: Sifting through the debris of hurricane Katrina
Resource expansion -- The drive for parks -- Pollution and city life -- Resource management and conservation -- Expansive possibilities : life with the bomb -- Grassroots activism and environmental concern -- Creating a political framework for environmental action -- Green culture -- Going global -- Environmental backlash and growing energy needs -- Sifting through the debris of hurricane Katrina
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index
Beschreibung:XVIII, 237 S.
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ISBN:0313332002
0-313-33200-2
9780313332005
978-0-313-33200-5