Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”
The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History is a useful reference book for high school or college libraries.
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.
In 1993, environmental objections to NAFTA resulted in the establishment of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the first international organization created to address issues related to trade and the environment. Surprisingly, however, the CEC has received little scholarly attention, to date. This book is intended to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of how the organization has fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, its mandates.