SUNY series in Environmental Public Policy – serie
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Warning and Response to the Mount St. Helens Eruption
Av Thomas F. Saarinen, James L. Sell
Häftad, 1985
463 kr
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This comprehensive book traces the warning, planning, and response to the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980, as seen through the eyes of key actors in the emergency. Based on first-hand accounts by 130 officials of government, private industry, and volunteer organizations-individuals who …
Envisioning a Sustainable Society
Learning Our Way Out
Häftad, 1989
504 kr
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The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work-irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of …
Death of Industrial Civilization
The Limits to Economic Growth and the Repoliticization of Advanced Industrial Society
Häftad, 1990
477 kr
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The Death of Industrial Civilization explains how the contemporary ecological crisis within industrial society is caused by the values inherent in unlimited economic growth and competitive materialism. Kassiola shows that the limits-to-growth critique of industrial civilization is the most …
Environmentalism and Political Theory
Toward an Ecocentric Approach
Häftad, 1992
463 kr
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This book provides the most detailed and comprehensive examination to date of the impact of environmentalism upon contemporary political thought. It sets out to disentangle the various strands of Green political thought and explain their relationship to the major Western political traditions. …
Education and the Environment
Learning to Live with Limits
Häftad, 1992
455 kr
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Argues that modern schools reinforce an unsustainable worldview and offers a framework for reshaping education to support ecological awareness, interdependence, and a more sustainable society.In Education and the Environment, Gregory A. Smith offers a clear and urgent rethinking of modern …
Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture
Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intelligence, and Other Modern Orthodoxies
Av C. A. Bowers
Häftad, 1995
463 kr
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Exposes the faulty assumptions that underlie modern education in the areas of moral education, creativity, and intelligence, showing how these assumptions must be changed in order to produce an ecologically sustainable culture.This book is a wake-up call for environmentalists who need to consider …
Crazy Mountains
Learning from Wilderness to Weigh Technology
Av David Strong
Häftad, 1995
463 kr
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In the tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It, this is a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains in Montana, urging us to awaken from the spell of technology.Reality is slipping away, writes David Strong in Crazy Mountains, and is being eroded by a glut of technological devices and …
Culture of Denial
Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools
Av C. A. Bowers
Häftad, 1997
450 kr
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Argues that environmentalists must expand their political involvement to include the reform of public schools and universities, and that education must be revamped to support ecologically sustainable paths for society.
Environmental Justice
Häftad, 1988
487 kr
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This book explores the philosophical background of questions on environmental justice. It focuses on theories of distributive justice, primarily those which concern the manner in which benefits and burdens should be allocated when there is a scarcity of benefits (relative to people's wants or …
Administrative Presidency Revisited
Public Lands, the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution
Inbunden, 1992
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How the Reagan administration used bureaucratic control over the Bureau of Land Management to shape public lands policy.When presidents seek to govern through bureaucracy rather than legislation, what really changes in public policy, and at what cost?In The Administrative Presidency Revisited, …
Environmental Politics in the International Arena
Movements, Parties, Organizations, and Policy
Häftad, 1993
401 kr
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The environmental movement is having a marked impact on national and international politics. This book examines the dominant ethics, attitudes, and moral values behind the international environmental movement and analyzes how it has influenced national policies around the world. In addition, it …
Oil in Troubled Waters
Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling
Av William R. Freudenburg, Robert Gramling
Inbunden, 1994
1111 kr
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In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in …
Oil in Troubled Waters
Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling
Av William R. Freudenburg, Robert Gramling
Häftad, 1994
386 kr
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In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in …
Culture of Denial
Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools
Av C. A. Bowers
Inbunden, 1997
1057 kr
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Argues that environmentalists must expand their political involvement to include the reform of public schools and universities, and that education must be revamped to support ecologically sustainable paths for society.
Environmentalists
Vanguard for a New Society
Häftad, 1985
382 kr
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In a groundbreaking study, Lester Milbrath argues the need for a deep change in our belief structure. Environmentalists: Vanguard for a New Society describes a revolution in process. Basing his work on the views of modern environmentalists, Milbrath delineates a new social paradigm-a new …
Warning and Response to the Mount St. Helens Eruption
Av Thomas F. Saarinen, James L. Sell
Inbunden, 1985
1111 kr
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This comprehensive book traces the warning, planning, and response to the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980, as seen through the eyes of key actors in the emergency. Based on first-hand accounts by 130 officials of government, private industry, and volunteer organizations-individuals who …
Controversies in Environmental Policy
Av Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert M. O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
414 kr
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Controversies in Environmental Policy presents comprehensive analyses of the politics surrounding decision-making on such environmental issues as land use, toxic waste management, new federalism, and economic incentive. It recognizes that environmental policy-making is a blend of politics, …
Wildlife, Wild Death
Land Use and Survival in Eastern Africa
Av Rodger Yeager, Norman N. Miller
Häftad, 1986
394 kr
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This book examines the relationship between agricultural land use and wildlife protection in two eastern African countries-Kenya and Tanzania. Although both elements are vital to the societies and economies of these countries, environmentally sensitive land-use practices and effective wildlife …
Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes
A Reader
Häftad, 1988
422 kr
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In 1978 Canada and the United States concluded an agreement for the protection and enhancement of water quality in the Great Lakes based on the ecosystem approach to management. Since ratification of this agreement, little progress has been made in practical application of this concept to …
