Record details

• ISBN: 0070460590
• ISBN: 9780070460591
• Physical Description: xix, 364 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1990.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Revised edition of: The American environment. 2d ed. c1976.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364).

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: The Conservation Impulse, Beginnings-1878. Native Americans Define the Natural Community / Black Elk -- The Human Factor in Environmental Change / William Cronon -- Frontiersmen and the American Environment / Wilbur Jacobs -- An Artist Proposes a National Park / George Catlin -- The Value of Wildness / Henry David Thoreau -- Human Responsibility for the Land / George Perkins Marsh -- The Value and Care of Parks / Frederick Law Olmsted -- The Sportsman Factor in Early Conservation / John F. Reiger -- The Beginnings of Federal Concern / Carl Schurz -- The Reclamation Idea / John Wesley Powell.

The Birth of "Conservation" / Gifford Pinchot -- The Conservation Mentality / WJ McGee -- Publicizing Conservation at the White House / Theodore Roosevelt -- Aesthetics and Conservation / Robert Underwood Johnson -- A Voice for Wilderness / John Muir -- Conservation as Democracy / J. Leonard Bates -- Conservation as Efficiency / Samuel P. Hays -- Conservation as Anxiety / Roderick Frazier Nash.

Conservation in the 1920s / Donald C. Swain -- The Tennessee Valley Authority / David Lilienthal -- Soil / Hugh Hammond Bennett -- The Civilian Conservation Corps / Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Fechner -- From Conservation to Environmentalism / Samuel P. Hays -- The Planned Landscape / Benton MacKaye -- Wilderness / Robert Marshall -- The Global Perspective / William Vogt -- A Land Ethic / Aldo Leopold -- The Meaning of Wilderness for American Civilization / Wallace Stegner -- Beautification / Lyndon B. Johnson.

Pesticides / Rachel Carson -- Pollution / President's Science Advisory Committee -- Overpopulation / Paul Ehrlich -- Fundamental Causes of the Environmental Crisis / Barry Commoner -- The State of the Environment / Council on Environmental Quality -- The Force of Public Awareness / Ralph Nader -- Respect for Nature / Gary Snyder -- The Debate over Growth / Garrett Hardin -- Mineral King and "Standing" for Trees / William O. Douglas -- Friendship with the Earth / David R. Brower.

Wilderness Advocacy / Roderick Frazier Nash -- Nuclear Winter / Paul Ehrlich -- Religion and the Environment / Wendell Berry -- Human Responsibility for Environments beyond Earth / Gar Smith -- Schism in Environmentalism / Kirkpatrick Sale -- Shortcomings of Environmentalism / Murray Bookchin -- Monkeywrenching / Edward Abbey and Dave Foreman -- Deep Ecology / George Sessions and Bill Devall -- Species Extinction / Edward O. Wilson -- Sustainability / Lester R. Brown and Sandra L. Postel -- A Troubled Future / Gerald O. Barney -- Future Environmental Challenges / John H. Adams, Robert Cahn.

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