Research Catalog

Title

Sourcebook on the environment : a guide to the literature / edited by Kenneth A. Hammond, George Macinko, Wilma B. Fairchild.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hammond, Kenneth A.
• Macinko, George
• Fairchild, Wilma B.
• Association of American Geographers

Description

x, 613 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Human ecology > Bibliography
• Environmental protection > Bibliography
• Ecologie humaine > Bibliographie
• Environnement > Protection > Bibliographie
• Sociale ecologie
• Bibliografieën
• Bibliographie
• Umweltschutz

Note

• "The manuscript was developed by the Association of American Geographers from original works commissioned by the Association."
• Includes indexes.

Contents

• Conceptual framework for the study of humans and their environment / George Macinko -- Environment and the quality of life / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Resource scarcity : a persistent environmental concern / James K. Mitchell -- The factor of scale : ecosystem, landscape mosaic, and region / David H. Miller -- Ecosystem models and energy-flow analysis / Joshua C. Dickinson, III -- Space and authority : the dimensions of institutional response / Rutherford H. Platt -- Prospects for future urban settlement and land use / Donald G. Janelle -- The limits-to-growth controversy / Daniel B. Luten -- Impact of transportation technology on the environment / Richard K. Brail -- Impact of industrial activity on water quality / Michael R. Greenberg -- Impact of human pressure on parks, wilderness, and other recreation lands / Robert C. Lucas -- Impact of human activity on wildlife / Harmut Walter -- Agricultural activities and environmental stress / Ian R. Manners -- Environmental impact of mining / Walter R. Hibbard, Jr. -- Environmental impact of urbanization / Spenser W. Havlick -- Solid waste and resource recovery / Garrett A. Smith
• Air and air quality / John R. Mather -- Water and water quality / Jack P. Mrowka -- Landforms and soils / Donald O. Doehring -- Vegetation / Marvin W. Mikesell -- Animals in the biosphere / Robin W. Doughty -- The coastal zone / Evelyn L. Pruitt and others -- Human population and the environment / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Energy and environment / Earl Cook -- Selected periodicals of environmental interest / Kenneth A. Hammond -- Review of federal environmental legislation / Daniel P. Beard -- Selected list of environmental organizations / Daniel P. Beard.

ISBN

• 0226315223
• 9780226315225

LCCN

77017407

OCLC

• ocm03433341
• 3433341
• SCSB-5570020

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries