The American experience in environmental protection
This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides guidelin...
| Main Author: | Newton, Lisa H., 1939- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Heidelberg ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
Heidelberg ; New York : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in ethics.
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| Summary: |
This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides guidelines for its continuation. |
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| Item Description: |
1. Environmental Background -- Keynote for the Field: Aldo Leopold -- Case 1: Hetch Hetchy Valley -- Case 2: Prospectors and Neighbors -- Case 3: Rachel Carson, DDT and the New Threats to Our Health -- Reflection: How Had We Come to This Point? -- Case 4: Malthus Revisited: Kenneth Boulding's Spaceship, Garrett -- Hardin's Commons and Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb -- Case 5: Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution -- Case 6: Earth Day and Environmental Legislation -- Case 7: Barry Commoner's Laws of Ecology -- Case 8: Love Canal and Toxic Wastes -- Case 9: Bhopal and Industrial Safety -- Reflections on the Democratic Process -- Case 10: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez -- The Sacrifices for Oil and the New Focus on the Ecosystem -- Further Reflection: The Reentry of the Ecocentric -- 2. Business Hears the Call -- Case 11: The Business Case for Environmental Protection: 3M & NYC -- Case 12: Green Marketing and the American Consumer -- Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line -- Case 13: The New Industrial Revolution and the Automobile -- Case 14: The McMansion -- Case 15: Biomimicry and Beyond -- Reflection: The Philosophers -- Biodiversity -- Case 16: Biophilia? Circling Toward Home -- Reflection: Deep Ecology and the Justification of Monkey Wrenching -- Coming to Value Nature -- Man as a Plain Citizen of the World: Return to Aldo Leopold -- Ethics Focused on the Natural Environment -- Eight Ways of Seeing -- The Case for Environmentalism. This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides guidelines for its continuation. English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| ISBN: |
9783319000503 3319000500 |
| ISSN: |
2211-8101. |