Beauty, health, and permanence environmental politics in the United States, 1955-1985

"Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hays, Samuel P. (-)
Otros Autores: Hays, Barbara D.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1987.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Studies in environment and history.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39726484*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: environmental politics
  • the new and the old
  • From conservation to environment
  • Variation and pattern in the environmental impulse
  • The urban environment
  • The nation's wildlands
  • The countryside: a land rediscovered, yet threatened
  • The toxic environment
  • Population, resources, and the limits to growth
  • Environmental inquiry and ideas
  • The environmental opposition
  • The politics of science
  • The politics of economic analysis and planning
  • The middle ground: management of environmental restraint
  • Environmental politics in the States
  • The politics of legislation, administration, and litigation
  • The Reagan antienvironmental revolution
  • Environmental society and environmental politics.