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"This collection of original documents will provide students with a new perspective on controversial environmental issues."
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"This collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. The book, with its broad array of perspectives, will be a welcome resource for students wishing to explore controversial environmental issues from as many different angles as possible."
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The Environmental Debate: A Documentary History
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Pub. Date: January 2011
Softcover: 600 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-676-2/978-1-59237-676-6
Price: $165.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-677-3 EBook Vendors

This unique collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the Colonial period the present.

This updated second edition has a new chapter with documents from 2000 to 2010, a new Resources section that features hundreds of environmentally significant organizations, with descriptions and contact information, more photos and an expanded Timeline.

Chapters are arranged chronologically to illustrate how environmental thought has changed over time. Chapters cover:

• Foundations of American Environmental Thought & Action
• Politicians, Naturalists and Artists in the New Nation 1776-1839
• The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840-1889
• The Conservation Movement Era, 1890-1919
• Reconsidering Our Relationship to Nature, 1920-1959
• The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960-1979
• Confronting Economic & Social Realities, 1980-1999
• Entering the Century of the Environment, 2000-2010

Documents include the writings of naturalists, conservationists, scientists, philosophers, lawyers, judges, politicians, sociologists, artists and poets, as well as from government reports, federal, state, and local legislation, and court cases.

Readers will be introduced to documents illustrating Pollution in Plymouth Colony Harbor in 1668, John James Audubon on the Decimation of the Bison Herds in 1843, the Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park in 1872, excerpts from the Clean Air Act of 1955, the Supreme Court Decision of Sierra Club v. Morton in 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the United Nations Convention and Protocol on Ozone Depletion in 1987, Barak Obama’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force on Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts and the Great Lakes in 2010, and much more.

Detailed historical introductions begin each chapter and precede each primary document, to provide a context for analyzing each document and will aid readers to better understand the various stands taken in debates over how, why, and if our environment needs to be protected. The Environmental Debate presents a wide variety of attitudes about environmental issues, to ensure balanced and complete coverage of the environmental debate. A Detailed Glossary and Cumulative Index complete the text.

This updated second edition, with its broad array of perspectives, will be a welcome resource for students wishing to explore controversial environmental issues from as many different angles as possible.

Also Available:

• Encyclopedia of Rural America
• Environmental Resource Handbook
• American Environmental Leaders
• U.S. Land & Natural Resources Policy
• Weather America

Pub. Date: January 2011
Softcover: 600 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-676-2/978-1-59237-676-6
Price: $165.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-677-3 EBook Vendors

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