Environmental issues
Environmental issues essential primary sources / [electronic resource] :
K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors.
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.
- 1 online resource (515 p.) : ill.
- Social issues primary sources collection Gale virtual reference library .
- Social issues primary sources collection. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781414406268 (electronic book) 1414406266 (electronic book)
Environmental sciences--Sources.
Human ecology--Sources.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781414406268 (electronic book) 1414406266 (electronic book)
Environmental sciences--Sources.
Human ecology--Sources.
