Environmental issues : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors.
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TextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2006Description: 1 online resource (515 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781414406268
- 1414406266
- 363.7 23
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Roots of environmental and ecological thought -- The physical earth -- The biosphere -- Exploration -- Environmental legislation -- Energy use and perils -- Environmental disasters -- Conservation and activism.
A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
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