Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources

Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2006. 515 pp.

A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.

Front Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Advisors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the Set
Introduction
About the Entry
Using Primary Sources
Chronology
Roots of Environmental and Ecological Thought
- The Pioneers
- Birds of America
- Walden
- "The Big Trees of California"
- An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859
- Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
- The White-Thorn Blossom
- "Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero"
- "The Wonders of Yellowstone"
- Roughing It
- The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States
- An Address by J. Sterling Morton on Arbor Day 1885
- Octavia Hill (1838–1912) founds English National Trust
- Our National Parks
- Drawing the Line in Mississippi
- Nature
- A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open
- Mt. Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California
- The Green Belt
- "'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer"
- Rachel Carson Dies of Cancer
- "The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis"
- "The Tragedy of the Commons"
- "American Institutions and Ecological Ideals"
- Coming into the Country
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Fascist Ecology
- Julia "Butterfly" Hill Stands In A 200-Foot Tall Old-Growth Redwood Tree
- Gaia: A new look at life on Earth
The Physical Earth
- "Piecing Continents Together"
- "A Mountain"
- Sulfur plumes off Namibia
- Four False Color Views of Ocean Surface Height of the Pacific Ocean
- "Low Ozone Level Found Above Antarctica"
- "A Semidesert with a Desert Heart"
- "At Last, the Smoking Gun?"
- Fires Raging Across Indonesia
- "The Torino Impact Hazard Scale"
- Climate Change Impacts on the United States
- "The New View of Natural Climate Variation"
- Dust Cloud over Japan
- Holes in Ozone Layer of Earth
- Earth Story
- Water Resources of the United States
- WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2004
- "Shrinking Glaciers Evidence of Global Warming: Differences Seen by Looking at Photos From 100 Years Ago"
- The Seasons and the Earth's Orbit
- "Global Warming: The Culprit? Evidence mounts that human activity is helping fuel these monster hurricanes"
The Biosphere
- A Naturalist in Nicaragua
- The Sewers of Paris, Purification Service
- Our Vanishing Wildlife
- Lead Helps to Guard Your Health
- Botanist George Washington Carver in Arboretum
- Stanley Miller Working in Laboratory
- World Wildlife Fund
- "The Carbon Cycle and Climate Warming"
- Artificial Reefs
- The Control of Nature
- Experimental Fish Guidance Devices
- "A New Paradigm"
- "From the Modern Synthesis to Lysenkoism, and Back? Portraits Of Science"
- "Turning the Tide?"
- "Pesticide Persisting Beyond Scheduled Elimination Date"
- Annual Permit Limits for Nitrogen and Phosphorus for Permits Designed to Protect Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries from Excess Nutrient Loading under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- "Deep In the Swamp, an 'Extinct' Woodpecker Lives"
- "Ecological Land Mines"
Exploration
- The Louisiana Purchase
- Expedition Chart
- Discovery of the Yosemite
- The Pampas and Andes
- "Yosemite Glaciers"
- "The Excursion"
- "Expedition of 1898–1902"
- My First Summer in the Sierra
- The Living Sea
- Voyager II's Gold Disc "Sounds of Earth"
- The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- "Isotopic Evidence for Extraterrestrial Non-Racemic Amino Acids in the Murchison Meteorite"
- "The Greenland Expedition of 1925"
- The Science Bit … Part 3 … The Larsen B Ice Shelf Disintegration
Environmental Legislation
- R. V. Medley and Others
- Department of the Interior Established
- Yellowstone National Park Act
- Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899
- Federal Power Act of 1920, as Amended
- "The True History of Teapot Dome"
- Tree-Toting Members of Civilian Conservation Corps
- A Radio Address on the Third Anniversary of C.C.C.
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- The Antarctic Treaty
- Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water
- The Water Quality Act of 1965
- United States v. Standard Oil
- Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
- National Park Service Organic Act
- National Environmental Policy Act
- DOI Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act
- EPA Establishes Hazardous Waste Enforcement and Emergency Response System
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
- Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 (WPT)
- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
- Oil Pollution Act
- Clean Air Act
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- HR3515-Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988
- Economic and Security and Recovery Act of 2001
- Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990
- Testimony of Christine Todd Whitman
- Mercury Reduction Act of 2003
- Coastal Zone Renewable Energy Act of 2003
- Marine Debris Research Prevention and Reduction Act
Energy Use and Perils
- Edwin L. Drake Strikes Oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania
- Hoover Dam
- Atoms for Peace
- 1975 State of the Union Address
- Energy Policy Act of 1992
- "The Dam"
- Energy Policy Act of 2005
- Study on Energy Supply Security and Geopolitics
Environmental Disasters
- Debate of Senate Bill 203. 38th Congress, 1864
- Dust Bowl Blues
- Skyline of Downtown Los Angeles Shrouded and Obscured by Smog
- "Oil Slick is Shroud for Birds"
- Cumberland Mountain Area Scarred by Strip Mining
- "The Love Canal Tragedy"
- "The Big Spill:
- Mercury Residues and Poisoning
- Taj Mahal Facade Carving Detail with Chips
- Wreckage at the Site of the World Trade Center
- The Amazonian Rainforest under Siege from Illegal Loggers
- "Memories Still Linger 25 Years After Three Mile Island Accident"
- Wave's Environmental Toll:
- In Harm's Way: Hurricanes, Population Trends and Environmental Change
Conservation and Activism
- "An Anti-Smoke Rally"
- Radon Health Mines
- Environmental Action Group
- "Nation Set to Observe Earth Day"
- "Wilderness as a Form of Land Use"
- Environmental Damage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
- "An African Success Story"
- "Rent-Seeking Behind the Green Curtain"
- The Water Sourcebooks: K-12
- Sewage Protestors Hold a "Toilet Protest"
- Globalization and Poverty: An Ecological Perspective
- Antinuclear Activists Confront Police
- "And Now, a New York Version of Star Wars"
- Vision Statement for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
- Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change
- Protesters at Site of New Terminal 5, Heathrow
- Indian Schoolgirl Urges People to Drink Natural Beverages
- Boiling Point
- Wangari Maathai-Nobel Lecture
- "15 Arrested in Land Rover Protest"
- "Rescuing Environmentalism"
- "Laws Don't Work if They're Only on Paper"
- Chernobyl Disaster Spurs Ecological Movements in Eastern Europe
- How to Conserve Water and Use It Effectively
- Demonstrations against Transfer of French Warship to India for Asbestos Removal
Sources Consulted
Index

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