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Environmental issues : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social issues primary sources collection.
- Social issues primary sources collection Environmental issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental sciences--Sources.
- Environmental sciences.
- Human ecology--Sources.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (515 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781414406268
- OCLC:
- 77517869
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