Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people.
US history from an environmental perspective.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.
Tthe first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.