Nature's Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives
by Penna,Anthony N.Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1998-12-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
This thorough, clearly organized text focuses on four major environmental categories: forests and land, wildlife and wildlife habitat, water and drinking water quality, and air Each category is treated historically from the time of exploration and discovery in the seventeenth century to the present. There are also discussions on environmental public policy issues currently in our national debate. The text is integrated throughout with fascinating primary source documents -- eyewitness accounts, government reports and documents, speeches, and congressional testimony -- which illuminate the material
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Early History | |
| The Commodification of Nature | |
| The Conservation and Environmental Movements | |
| Reasons for Optimism: An Environmentally Friendly Future | |
| Forests Introduction: What are the Benefits of a Forest | |
| Forests Today | |
| The Forests During the Period of European Exploration | |
| The Northeast: Early History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War | |
| Early Warnings About the Effects of Deforestation | |
| The Midwest: The Use of New Technology | |
| The Costs of Clearcutting | |
| Environmental Effects on Midwest Forests | |
| The South: The Impact of Clearcutting the Southern Forests | |
| Early Conservation Initiatives | |
| The Rocky Mountain Region and the Pacific Northwest: Early Nineteenth Century Logging in the Northwest | |
| The Impact of New Technology | |
| The Conservation Movement: Conservation and the New Deal The Environmental Movement and Its Aftermath | |
| Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat Introduction: The Loss of Habitat Early History: Early American Hunting and Trapping | |
| Early Wildlife Laws Hunting and Conservation: Game Birds | |
| Early Conservation Movement to Save the Birds | |
| Hunting Bison | |
| Early Conservation: The Bison | |
| The Nation's First Refuges for Wildlife Hunting and Conservation: Hunting Predators | |
| Efforts to Protect Wildlife and Waterfoul Habitat Aldo Leopold and the Advent of an Environmental Consciousness | |
| The Environmental Movement and the Protection of Wildlife: Endangered Species | |
| Water and Drinking Water Quality Introduction: Human Consumption | |
| The Natural Water Cycle | |
| The Contribution of Beavers History of Urban Water Use: Boston | |
| New York | |
| Philadelphia | |
| Chicago | |
| Atlanta Water Works, Sewage Treatment, and Public Health: The West | |
| Air Quality and Air Pollution Introduction: Early History | |
| Carbon Fuel Sources | |
| Early History of Smoke Pollution | |
| Smoke's Medical Benefits History of Urban Air Quality: Chicago | |
| St. Louis and Pittsburgh | |
| The Donora Catastrophe | |
| Los Angeles Smog Clean Air Act and Amendments: The Acid Rain Controversy | |
| How Clean is Clean Enough? | |
| The Contribution of Our Energy-Hungry Society to the Phenomenon of Global Warming: The Atlantic Conveyer and Its Effect on Climate Change | |
| United States Contribution to Atmospheric Warming | |
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