Product Description: Environmental advocates such as Jacques Cousteau, Dian Fossey and Al Gore are discussed here, along with important environmental movements, including the Animal Rights Movement, the Green Movement and the Antinuclear Movement.

Product Description: This newly revised edition provides a wealth of information for students and general readers on the very relevant topic of the environment. Articles cover an amazing range of topics - from endangered animal species and air pollution to smog and urban planning...read more

This newly revised edition provides a wealth of information for students and general readers on the very relevant topic of the environment. Articles cover an amazing range of topics - from endangered animal species and air pollution to smog and urban planning. 300 new articles are included, and all of the original essays have been re-evaluated for currency and accuracy. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Science.

Product Description: This newly revised edition provides a wealth of information for students and general readers on the very relevant topic of the environment. Articles cover an amazing range of topics - from endangered animal species and air pollution to smog and urban planning...read more

Product Description: Encyclopedia of Global Resources provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. the entries are diverse, with articles covering fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Depa

Product Description: The topic of our natural resources has become an important issue over the last few years. The abundance of some (and scarcity of others) has sparked many a debate. The four volumes in this set discuss not only the aspects of the resources themselves, but their economic and social impact as well...read more

Product Description: The topic of our natural resources has become an important issue over the last few years. The abundance of some (and scarcity of others) has sparked many a debate. The four volumes in this set discuss not only the aspects of the resources themselves, but their economic and social impact as well...read more

Product Description: The topic of our natural resources has become an important issue over the last few years. The abundance of some (and scarcity of others) has sparked many a debate. The four volumes in this set discuss not only the aspects of the resources themselves, but their economic and social impact as well...read more

Product Description: The topic of our natural resources has become an important issue over the last few years. The abundance of some (and scarcity of others) has sparked many a debate. The four volumes in this set discuss not only the aspects of the resources themselves, but their economic and social impact as well...read more

Product Description: Craig Allin explores here the history of wilderness preservation politics in the United States. American pioneers originally viewed the wilderness as an enemy to destroy, Allin recounts, but with the rapid decline in natural resources in the nineteenth century, citizens realized their error and began to enact revolutionary environmental policies...read more

Covers air pollution, national parks, organizations, solar power, enviromental legislation, manmade environmental issues from asbestos to smog, and events including the Dust Bowl and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. (view table of contents)

Covers air pollution, national parks, organizations, solar power, enviromental legislation, manmade environmental issues from asbestos to smog, and events including the Dust Bowl and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. (view table of contents)

'This unique three-volume set brings together articles concerning natural resources and surrounding issues about their management. Written to provide traditional and more recent views on naturally occurring resources, their uses, economic benefits, and ecological ramifications of both use and retrieval in an easily understandable manner, it more than succeeds. Over 400 signed entries use charts, tables, and photographs to answer the basic what, when, where, why, and how questions. Specific minerals, organizations, historical events, and biographies are included as well as articles on energy and ecological resources. Appendixes include a time line of events, mineral resource production by resource, state, and county'.--'Outstanding Reference Sources : the1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

'This unique three-volume set brings together articles concerning natural resources and surrounding issues about their management. Written to provide traditional and more recent views on naturally occurring resources, their uses, economic benefits, and ecological ramifications of both use and retrieval in an easily understandable manner, it more than succeeds. Over 400 signed entries use charts, tables, and photographs to answer the basic what, when, where, why, and how questions. Specific minerals, organizations, historical events, and biographies are included as well as articles on energy and ecological resources. Appendixes include a time line of events, mineral resource production by resource, state, and county'.--'Outstanding Reference Sources : the1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA. (view table of contents)

'This unique three-volume set brings together articles concerning natural resources and surrounding issues about their management. Written to provide traditional and more recent views on naturally occurring resources, their uses, economic benefits, and ecological ramifications of both use and retrieval in an easily understandable manner, it more than succeeds. Over 400 signed entries use charts, tables, and photographs to answer the basic what, when, where, why, and how questions. Specific minerals, organizations, historical events, and biographies are included as well as articles on energy and ecological resources. Appendixes include a time line of events, mineral resource production by resource, state, and county'.--'Outstanding Reference Sources : the1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

Product Description: Allin's handbook provides a masterful survey of the parks and the systems whereby they came into being and are managed (or in some cases mismanaged) today. . . . Throughout `spaceship earth' there is an audience for this fine book in public and academic libraries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)