Record details

• ISBN: 9781642653533
• ISBN: 1642653535
• Physical Description: xxiv, 372 pages : illustrations (mostly color), charts, maps (some color), portraits ; 27 cm.
• Edition: Third edition.
• Publisher: Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; [2019]
• Copyright: copyright 2019

Content descriptions

General Note:

Salem Press.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributor List -- Complete List of Articles -- Abbey, Edward -- Accounting for nature -- Acid deposition and acid rain -- Acid mine drainage -- Adams, Ansel -- Aerosols and the environment -- African elephant poaching -- Africa's ecosystem -- Agenda 21 -- Agent Orange (AO) -- Agricultural chemicals -- Agricultural revolution -- Agricultural runoff -- Agriculture: history & overview -- Agriculture: modern problems -- Agriculture: traditional -- Air conditioning and air-cooling technology -- Air pollution policy to 2010 -- Air Quality Index (AQI) -- Airborne particulates -- Alar and carcinogen controversy -- Alaska Highway -- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) -- Alliance of Small Island States -- Alternative energy sources -- Alternative fuels -- Alternatively fueled vehicles -- Amazon River basin -- American alligator and conservation efforts -- American bison -- Amoco Cadiz oil spill -- Amory, Cleveland -- Amphibians and habitat destruction -- Animal rights movement -- Animal testing -- Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) -- Antarctic Treaty -- Anthropocentrism -- Antibiotics as environmental waste -- Antienvironmentalism -- Antinuclear movement -- Antiquities Act -- Appropriate technology (AT) movement -- Aquaculture -- Aquaponics -- Aqueducts -- Aquifers -- Aral Sea destruction -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Argo Merchant oil spill -- Arsenic in water supplies -- Asbestos as carcinogenic material -- Asbestos releases in Silver Bay, Minnesota -- Asbestosis -- Asia -- Aswan High Dam -- Atmospheric inversions -- Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) -- Automobile emissions.

Bacillus thuringiensis -- Back-to-the-land movement -- Bacterial resistance & public health -- Balance of nature -- Basel Convention & movement of hazardous waste -- Beach erosion -- Bees & other pollinators -- Benefit-cost analysis -- Best available technologies to reduce pollution -- Bhopal disaster -- Bikini Atoll bombing -- Bioassays -- Biocentrism -- Biodiversity -- Biodiversity action plans -- Biodiversity: Why Preserve Biodiversity? -- Biofertilizers -- Biogeochemical cycles -- Biogeography -- Biomagnification -- Biomass conversion -- Biomes & environmental issues -- Biopesticides & the environment -- Biophilia -- Biopiracy & bioprospecting -- Bioregionalism -- Bioremediation -- Biosphere -- Biosphere 2 -- Biosphere reserves & wilderness issues -- Biotechnology & genetic engineering -- Black lung -- Black Sea & pollution -- Black Wednesday -- Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) -- Bookchin, Murray -- Boreal forests & climate change -- Borlaug, Norman -- Bovine growth hormone -- BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill -- Braer oil spill -- Brazilian radioactive powder release -- Breeder reactors -- Brent Spar occupation -- Brockovich, Erin -- Brower, David -- Brown, Lester -- Brownfields -- Brucellosis -- Brundtland Commission -- Brundtland, Gro Harlem -- Burroughs, John -- Captive breeding -- Carbon dioxide air capture -- Carbon footprint -- Carbon monoxide -- Carpooling -- Carter, Jimmy -- Cash for Clunkers -- Catalytic converters -- Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ) -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Ceres -- Certified wood -- Chalk River nuclear reactor explosion.

Chelyabinsk nuclear waste explosion -- Chernobyl nuclear accident -- Chipko Andolan movement -- Chloracne -- Chloramphenicol -- Chlorination -- Climax communities -- Cloning -- Cloud seeding -- Club of Rome -- Coal ash storage -- Coastal Zone Management Act -- Cogeneration power systems -- Colorado River -- Commercial fishing -- Commoner, Barry -- Community gardens -- Compact fluorescent lightbulbs -- Composting -- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) -- Congo River basin -- Coniferous forests -- Conservation biology -- Conservation easements -- Conservation movement -- Conservation of natural resources -- Conservation of polar bears -- Conservation of rhinoceros populations -- Conservation of savannas -- Conservation of the whooping crane -- Conservation of wolves -- Conservation of Yosemite Valley -- Conservation policy -- Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) -- Continental shelves and pollution -- Controversy over wild horses and burros -- Convention on Biological Diversity -- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species -- Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution -- Corporate average fuel economy standards -- Cote d'Ivoire toxic waste incident -- Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) -- Cousteau, Jacques -- Cross-Florida Barge Canal -- Cultural eutrophication -- Cuyahoga River fires -- Dams and reservoirs -- Darling, Jay -- Darwin, Charles -- Dead zones -- Debt-for-nature swaps -- Deciduous forests -- Decline of the ozone layer -- Deep ecology -- Deforestation -- Department of Energy, U.S -- Department of the Interior, U.S -- Desertification -- Deserts & dunes -- Destruction of the northern spotted owl's habitat.

Destruction of the rain forests -- Detoxification (environmental) -- Detrimental health effects of smog -- Development gap -- Diamond v. Chakrabarty -- Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) -- Dioxin -- Diquat -- Disposable diapers in landfills -- Dolly the sheep -- Dolphin-safe tuna -- Dredging -- Drinking water -- Drought -- Dubos, Rene -- Ducktown, Tennessee -- Dust Bowl ecological disaster.

Target Audience Note:

10-A.

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