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Title Environmental issues [electronic resource] : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors.

Imprint Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.

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Description 1 online resource (515 p.) : ill.
Series Social issues primary sources collection
Gale eBooks
Social issues primary sources collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Roots of environmental and ecological thought -- The physical earth -- The biosphere -- Exploration -- Environmental legislation -- Energy use and perils -- Environmental disasters -- Conservation and activism.
Summary 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Environmental sciences -- Sources.
Human ecology -- Sources.
Added Author Lerner, K. Lee, editor.
Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth, editor.
Gale (Firm)
Other Form: Print version: Environmental issues : essential primary sources. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006 9781414406251
ISBN 9781414406268 (electronic book)
1414406266 (electronic book)
9781414406251 (alk. paper)
1414406258 (alk. paper)

 
    
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