| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
xix, 364 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Revised edition of: The American environment. 2d ed. c1976. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364). |
| Contents |
Part I: The Conservation Impulse, Beginnings-1878. Native Americans Define the Natural Community / Black Elk -- The Human Factor in Environmental Change / William Cronon -- Frontiersmen and the American Environment / Wilbur Jacobs -- An Artist Proposes a National Park / George Catlin -- The Value of Wildness / Henry David Thoreau -- Human Responsibility for the Land / George Perkins Marsh -- The Value and Care of Parks / Frederick Law Olmsted -- The Sportsman Factor in Early Conservation / John F. Reiger -- The Beginnings of Federal Concern / Carl Schurz -- The Reclamation Idea / John Wesley Powell. |
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The Birth of "Conservation" / Gifford Pinchot -- The Conservation Mentality / WJ McGee -- Publicizing Conservation at the White House / Theodore Roosevelt -- Aesthetics and Conservation / Robert Underwood Johnson -- A Voice for Wilderness / John Muir -- Conservation as Democracy / J. Leonard Bates -- Conservation as Efficiency / Samuel P. Hays -- Conservation as Anxiety / Roderick Frazier Nash. |
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Conservation in the 1920s / Donald C. Swain -- The Tennessee Valley Authority / David Lilienthal -- Soil / Hugh Hammond Bennett -- The Civilian Conservation Corps / Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Fechner -- From Conservation to Environmentalism / Samuel P. Hays -- The Planned Landscape / Benton MacKaye -- Wilderness / Robert Marshall -- The Global Perspective / William Vogt -- A Land Ethic / Aldo Leopold -- The Meaning of Wilderness for American Civilization / Wallace Stegner -- Beautification / Lyndon B. Johnson. |
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Pesticides / Rachel Carson -- Pollution / President's Science Advisory Committee -- Overpopulation / Paul Ehrlich -- Fundamental Causes of the Environmental Crisis / Barry Commoner -- The State of the Environment / Council on Environmental Quality -- The Force of Public Awareness / Ralph Nader -- Respect for Nature / Gary Snyder -- The Debate over Growth / Garrett Hardin -- Mineral King and "Standing" for Trees / William O. Douglas -- Friendship with the Earth / David R. Brower. |
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Wilderness Advocacy / Roderick Frazier Nash -- Nuclear Winter / Paul Ehrlich -- Religion and the Environment / Wendell Berry -- Human Responsibility for Environments beyond Earth / Gar Smith -- Schism in Environmentalism / Kirkpatrick Sale -- Shortcomings of Environmentalism / Murray Bookchin -- Monkeywrenching / Edward Abbey and Dave Foreman -- Deep Ecology / George Sessions and Bill Devall -- Species Extinction / Edward O. Wilson -- Sustainability / Lester R. Brown and Sandra L. Postel -- A Troubled Future / Gerald O. Barney -- Future Environmental Challenges / John H. Adams, Robert Cahn. |
| Subject |
Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Conservation of natural resources. (OCoLC)fst00875502
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Natürliche Ressourcen (DE-588)4075236-7
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Umweltschutz (DE-588)4061644-7
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1878-1990
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| Indexed Term |
United States Environment Conservation |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Nash, Roderick.
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Nash, Roderick.
American environment.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: American environmentalism. 3rd ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1990 (OCoLC)556122806 |
| ISBN |
0070460590 |
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9780070460591 |
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