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Making America green and safe : a history of sustainable development and climate change / by Alan D. Hecht.
Lippincott Library HC110.E5 H43 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecht, Alan D., 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Sustainable development--Government policy--History.
- Sustainable development.
- Climatic changes--Government policy--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Sustainable development--Government policy--United States--History.
- Climatic changes--Government policy--United States--History.
- Environmental policy--United States--History.
- Environmental policy.
- History.
- Climatic changes--Government policy.
- Sustainable development--Government policy.
- United States.
- United States. Environmental Protection Agency--History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 159 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
- Contents:
- Dealing with Sustainable Development
- Chapter 1 Creation of NEPA, EPA and the 1972 Stockholm Earth Summit p. 13
- Chapter 2 UN Report Our Common Future (1987) and the Rio Earth Summit 1992 p. 25
- Chapter 3 The 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) p. 43
- Chapter 4 Historic Steps to Making Sustainability Operational at EPA p. 55
- Dealing with Climate Change
- Chapter 5 50-year Chronology of Key Climate Science and Policy Events p. 83
- Chapter 6 The IPCC First Assessment and Negotiations of the First Climate Agreement p. 115
- Chapter 7 The Climate Wars p. 127
- Past Present and Future
- Chapter 8 Responding to Mega Trends and Climate Change for a Resilient and Sustainable Society and Making America Green and Safe p. 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1527513785
- 9781527513785
- OCLC:
- 1047555315
- Publisher Number:
- 99977981773
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