Overview
- Introduction to the issues and conflicts surrounding the protection of the environment
- Offers an overview of one nation's evolution from exploitation to true environmental consciousness
- A handy reference for the significant cases?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC, volume 6)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic
- Ecosystems in Crisis
- Environmental Perspectives
- Environmental Problems
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmentalism in the United States
- Fields and Woodlands
- Natural Environment
- Preserving the natural environment
- Problems with the ecosystems
- Reserve Mining
- Silent Spring
- The Environmental Movement
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The American Experience in Environmental Protection
Authors: Lisa Newton
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00050-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00049-7Published: 29 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00050-3Published: 02 March 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-8101
Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 61
Topics: Ethics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Philosophy of Nature