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California's threatened environment : restoring the dream / edited by Tim Palmer.

Title: California's threatened environment : restoring the dream / edited by Tim Palmer.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Island Press : Planning and Conservation League Foundation, c1993.

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viii, 305 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Deals with various aspects of California environmental quality, offering analysis, projection, and possibilities for reform.

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Contents

1. The Abundance and the Remains / Tim Palmer -- 2. A Great Number of People / Tim Palmer -- 3. The Atmosphere We Breathe / Jane V. Hall -- 4. California Energy and Global Warming / Chris Calwell -- 5. Transportation and the Environmental Costs of Auto Dependency / Leif Erik Lange -- 6. Water Supply: A New Era for a Scarce Resource / Clyde Macdonald -- 7. The Quality of Water / Alvin J. Greenberg -- 8. Troubled Shores: The Ocean, Bays, and Estuaries / Barry Nelson -- 9. Land Use and Growth Management: The Transformation of Paradise / Gary A. Patton -- 10. Conserving the Land That Feeds Us / Briggs Nisbet -- 11. The Forest: Fragmented Remnants of an Ecosystem / Tim Palmer -- 12. Solid Waste: To Recycle or to Bury California / William K. Shireman -- 13. Toxic Wastes: Proliferating Poisons / Jody Sparks -- 14. Pesticides: In Our Food, Air, Water, Home, and Workplace / Ralph Lightstone -- 15. Parks and Recreation: Vital to a Way of Life / Pete Dangermond.
16. Wildlife and Endangered Species: In Precipitous Decline / Sally W. Smith -- 17. The Native California Landscape / Tim Palmer -- 18. An Action Agenda for the Future / Gerald H. Meral -- Selected Environmental Organizations in California.

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^^^92030944^

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Harvard Library