The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
In an era when federal ownership and control of natural resources is under suspicion, conservation trusts have emerged into the policy limelight after more than a century in the shadows. This book asks whether conservation trusts can live up to their promise as an efficient and responsive environmental protection policy.
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of nontimber forest products (NTFPs) in the United States, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them.
First published in 1933, The People’s Forests makes a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation’s forests in the face of generations of devastating practices.
This political biography of Wayne Aspinall is an insightful account of the political, financial, and personal variables that affect the course by which water resource legislation is conceived, supported, and implemented—a book that is essential to understanding the history and future of water in the West.