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The environmental crisis

Author: Miguel A Santos
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Guides to historic events of the twentieth century".
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This resource features the latest information on the global environmental crisis in the twentieth century. Ideal for student research, it examines the main causes of environmental concern and the key players who raised the environmental consciousness of the public. Following a timeline of key events and a historical overview of the environmental crisis, topical essays examine each of the major areas of environmental  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Santos, Miguel A.
Environmental crisis.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607205874
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Miguel A Santos
ISBN: 0313301514 9780313301513
OCLC Number: 39465202
Description: xix, 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: ch. 1. Historical overview of the environmental crisis --
ch. 2. Concern for our vanishing wilderness --
ch. 3. Pollution and the emergence of environmentalism --
ch. 4. Environmental concern for overpopulation --
ch. 5. Concept of a self-sustainable system.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Guides to historic events of the twentieth century".
Responsibility: Miguel A. Santos.

Abstract:

"This resource features the latest information on the global environmental crisis in the twentieth century. Ideal for student research, it examines the main causes of environmental concern and the key players who raised the environmental consciousness of the public. Following a timeline of key events and a historical overview of the environmental crisis, topical essays examine each of the major areas of environmental concern: our vanishing wilderness, pollution, overpopulation, and how we can coexist with our environment without destroying it."--BOOK JACKET.

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