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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781414406268 (electronic book) 1414406266 (electronic book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmental sciences--Sources.<br/>Human ecology--Sources.