Samuel P. Hays

Beauty, Health, and Permanence

Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955 1985
Herausgeber: Worster, Donald; Crosby, Alfred W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions and to establish their relationship to social change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1036g
• ISBN-13: 9780521389280
• ISBN-10: 0521389283
• Artikelnr.: 22243037

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Environmental Politics - the New and the Old
1. From conservation to environment
2. Variation and pattern in the environmental impulse
3. The urban environment
4. The nation's wildlands
5. The countryside: A land rediscovered, yet threatened
6. The toxic environment
7. Population, resources, and the limits to growth
8. Environmental inquiry and ideas
9. The environmental opposition
10. The politics of science
11. The politics of economic analysis and planning
12. The middle ground: Management of environmental restraint
13. Environmental politics in the States
14. The politics of legislation, administration, and litigation
15. The Reagan antienvironmental revolution
16. Environmental society and environmental politics
Notes
Index.