Environmental history of the Hudson River : human uses that changed the ecology, ecology that changed human uses / edited by Robert E. Henshaw ; with a foreword by Frances F. Dunwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henshaw, Robert E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.

Nature.

Natural history--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).

Natural history.

Environmentalism--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.

Environmentalism.

Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Environmental conditions.

Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biologists, historians, and social scientists explore the reciprocal relationships between humans and the Hudson River.

Contents:

""ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY of the HUDSON RIVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED""; ""PART I. HISTORY AND BIOLOGY""; ""1. HISTORICAL FACTS/BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS""; ""2. LINKAGES BETWEEN PEOPLE AND ECOSYSTEMS""; ""3. SYMBIOSES BETWEEN BIOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS""; ""PART II. RIVER OF RESOURCES""; ""4. HUDSON RIVER FISHERIES""; ""5. HERPETOFAUNA OF THE HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED""; ""6. HUMAN IMPACTS ON HUDSON RIVER MORPHOLOGY AND SEDIMENTS""

""7. THE EARLIEST THIRTEEN MILLENNIA OF CULTURALADAPTATION ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY""""8. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDICES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND COLONIAL ETHNOBOTANY INSEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH NEW AMSTERDAM""; ""9. LINKING UPLANDS TO THE HUDSON RIVER""; ""10. VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN THE NORTHERN SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS""; ""11. AGRICULTURE IN THE HUDSON BASIN SINCE 1609""; ""12. ECOLOGY IN THE FIELD OF TIME""; ""13. THE INTRODUCTION AND NATURALIZATION OF EXOTIC ORNAMENTAL PLANTS IN NEW YORK� SHUDSON RIVER VALLEY""; ""PART III. RIVER OF COMMERCE""

""14. THE RISE AND DEMISE OF THE HUDSON RIVERICE HARVESTING INDUSTRY""""15. HUMAN SANITARY WASTES AND WASTE TREATMENT IN NEW YORK CITY""; ""16. FOUNDRY COVE""; ""17. RIVER CITY""; ""18. OUT OF THE FRAY""; ""PART IV. RIVER OF INSPIRATION""; ""19. BIRTH OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY""; ""20. THE INFLUENCE OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOLOF ART IN THE PRESERVATION OF THE RIVER,ITS NATURAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE,AND THE EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW""; ""21. “THY FATE AND MINE ARE NOT REPOSE�""; ""22. THE PAST AS GUIDE TO A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE""; ""AFTERWORD""

""CONTRIBUTORS""""WEB ADDRESSES OF CITED AND KEY AGENCIES,NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, ANDACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN THE HUDSON RIVER BASIN""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references, webography and index.

ISBN:

9781438440286

1438440286

9781461906384

1461906385

OCLC:

794698973