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Part of the series Penguin history of American life;Penguin history of American life.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-371) and index.
• The schizophrenic fifties — Pollution and pessimism — Politics and the environment — Energy politics — Crises and critics — Anti- and counterenvironmentalists — Ecologists and historians — Deep and radical ecology — Global warming — Environmental issues of the 1990s — The new millennium.
• Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts. — From dust jacket flap.

Subjects:

• Environmentalism — United States.
• Environmentalism — United States — History.
• Environmental policy — United States.
• Environmental policy — United States — History.
• Climatic changes — Government policy — United States.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• USA. (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd
• Environment.
• Climate Change — history.
• Environmental Pollution — history.
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• A Rethinking Schools publication –cover.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction — ch. 1. The whole thing is connected — ch. 2. Grounding our teaching — ch. 3. Facing climate chaos — ch. 4. Burning the future : — Coal — Natural gas and fracking — ch. 5. Teaching in a toxic world : — Teaching in a nuclear world — ch. 6. Food, farming, and the Earth — Afterward — Index.
• Years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution–as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it’s becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what’s wrong and imagine solutions.

Subjects:

• Environmental education — Curricula.
• Education.
• Conservation of natural resources — Study and teaching.
• Human ecology — Study and teaching.
• Environmental protection — Study and teaching.
• Ecology — Study and teaching.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs–not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites’ lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt.
• Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent. Worries crossed lines of class and race and necessitated new ways of thinking and acting, Sellers argues, concluding that suburb-dwellers, through the knowledge and politics they forged, deserve much of the credit for inventing modern environmentalism. –Pub. desc.
• Suburban country life — pt. 1. New York. Nature’s suburbia Ecological mixing and nature fixing Worrying about the water — pt. 2. Los Angeles. Missing nature in Los Angeles Suburban taming : from the personal to the political Anxious about the air — pt. 3. Environmental nation. The environment as a suburban place.

Subjects:

• Environmentalism — United States — History — 20th century.
• Suburbs — United States — History — 20th century.
• Environmental policy — United States — History — 20th century.
• United States — Environmental conditions.
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-505) and index.
• pt. 1. The litany — pt. 2. Human welfare — pt. 3. Can human prosperity continue? — pt. 4. Pollution : does it undercut human prosperity? — pt. 5. Tomorrow’s problems — pt. 6. The real state of the world.

Subjects:

• Global environmental change.
• Pollution.
• Human ecology.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 1. Introduction — 2. The nature of the problem : The development of climate science Climate change as a public issue The age of climate diplomacy — 3. Obstacles to action : Scientific ignorance Politicizing science Facts and values The science/policy interface Organized denial Partisanship Political institutions The hardest problem — 4. The limits of economics : Economics and climate change The Stern Review and its critics Discounting Further problems State of the discussion — 5. The frontiers of ethics : The domain of concern Responsibility and harm Fault liability Human rights and domination Differences that matter Revising morality — 6. Living with climate change : Life in the anthropocene It doesn’t matter what I do It’s not the meat, it’s the motion Ethics for the anthropocene Respect for nature Global justice — 7. Politics, policy, and the road ahead : The rectification of names Adaptation: the neglected option? Why we need more than adaptation The category formerly known as geoengineering The way forward.
• From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, the author explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, the author argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.–From publisher’s website.

Subjects:

• Environmental sciences.
• Environmental ethics.
• Human ecology.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Failure. Events Disasters as failures Types of failure Types of disasters Systems engineering — Science. Scientific advancement Laws of motion Laws of chemistry and thermodynamics Science in the public eye — Explosions. Dust Ammonium nitrate Picric acid and TNT Methyl isocyanate Natural explosions : volcanoes — Plumes. Nomenclature Early air quality disasters Toxic plumes Plume characterization Nuclear fallout plumes — Leaks. Surreptitious disasters Pollutant transport in groundwater Love Canal Chester Times Beach Valley of the Drums Stringfellow Acid Pits Tar Creek The march continues — Spills. Disastrous releases Oil spills Niger River Delta oil spills Other spills Partitioning in the environment — Fires. Fire disaster thermodynamics Kuwait oil fires Release of radioactive material Indonesian wildfires World Trade Center fire The Japanese earthquake and tsunami Other major fires Tire fires Coal mine fires Indirect effect : formation of toxic substances Indirect impact : transport — Climate. Global climate change Greenhouse gases Consequences of global warming Is it a disaster? Responding to climate change Carbon and climate Potential warming disaster Geoengineering Biological drivers of climate change — Nature. Hurricanes Floods Drought Ecosystem resilience — Minerals. Inorganic substances Toxic metals Asbestos Cyanide Surface mining Value — Recalcitrance. The dirty dozen Agent Orange Lake Apopka James River Persistent wastes The Arctic disaster — Radiation. Electromagnetic radiation Nuclear radiation Nuclear plants Nuclear power plant failure Is nuclear power worth the risks? Meltdown at Chernobyl The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Three Mile Island nuclear accident Radioisotopes and radiation poisoning Carbon dating Nuclear waste disposal — Invasions. The worst Sensitive habitats — Products. Precaution Endocrine disruptors and hormonally active agents
• Unraveling Environmental Disasters covers the major environmental threats facing our world, focusing on rigorous scientific investigations to better understand why the disasters occurred. Two prominent scientists, physical chemist Trevor Letcher and environmental engineer Daniel Vallero, look at natural and human-induced disasters to analyze ways that they could have been prevented and offer predictions on possible future disasters based upon scientific evidence. This book: Considers the societal impact on environmental disasters Describes concisely why these disasters occurred, with understandable explanations of the underlying scientific principles Applies ‘failure analysis’ to recent environmental catastrophes, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Explains how to minimize the risk of potential disasters similar to those of the past. –p. [4] of cover.

Subjects:

• Environmental disasters.

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Part of the series History for a sustainable future;History for a sustainable future.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Environmentalism and environmental history in the twenty-first century — Creating a tradition : German environmentalism, 1900-1945 — Getting in motion : German Environmentalism, 1945-1980 — Interim remarks: explaining the rise of environmentalism — The green enigma : German environmentalism, 1980-2013 — German environmentalism in mid passage — How green after all? : an epilogue

Subjects:

• Environmentalism — History — 21st century.
• Environmental policy — History — 21st century.
• Environmentalism — Germany — History — 20th century.
• Environmentalism — Germany — History — 21st century.
• Deutschland. (DE-588)4011882-4 gnd
• Germany. fast (OCoLC)fst01210272
• 1900 – 2099 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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Part of the series Weyerhaeuser environmental books;Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-233) and index
• Acknowledgments — Foreword — Introduction: Nature’s Strange Bedfellows — Chapter 1. Arizona Portraits: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part I — Chapter 2. Precious Bodily Fluids: Fluoridation, Environmentalism, and Antistatism — Chapter 3. The Environmental Conscience of a Conservative: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part II — Chapter 4. Tending Nature with the Invisible Hand: The Free-Market Environmentalists — Chapter 5. Like a Scarlet Thread: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey — Epilogue: The Fading Green Elephant Or, the Decline of Antistatist Environmentalism — Notes — Selected Bibliography — Index.

Subjects:

• Environmentalism — United States — History.
• Environmentalism — Political aspects — United States.
• Environmental policy — United States — History.
• Radicalism — United States.
• Right and left (Political science)
• Ideology — United States.
• United States — Politics and government — 20th century.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-205) and index.
• A theory of private authority — Agents of the state : a century of delegation in international environmental law — Governors of the market : the evolution of entrepreneurial authority — Atmospheric police : delegated authority in the clean development mechanism — Atmospheric accountants : entrepreneurial authority and the greenhouse gas protocol.
• Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority–one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them.Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years, largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues that the configuration of state preferences and the existing institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases on climate change provide evidence for her arguments.Groundbreaking in scope, Rethinking Private Authority demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to today’s most pressing environmental problems — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Environmental policy — International cooperation.
• Public-private sector cooperation.
• Non-governmental organizations.
• Environmental law, International.
• Industrial management — Environmental aspects.
• Corporations — Environmental aspects.
• Business enterprises — Environmental aspects.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.
• Policy deadlock : grappling with climate change — Science meets government bureaucracy — Congress and the legislative process — Presidential leadership from Truman to Obama — The role of the judiciary — Interest groups and public opinion — The states weigh in — Assessing the US response to climate change.

Subjects:

• Environmental policy — United States.
• Climatic changes — Government policy — United States.

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