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Sourcebook on the environment : a guide to the literature
- 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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | Z5861.S66 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 613 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Literature survey providing a guide to selected aspects of the environment - covers environmental protection, ecology, quality of life, urban development, environmental modifications relating to water quality, nature conservation, transport, etc., and includes a chronology of relevant laws, a directory of organizations and bibliographys.
- Subject
- Human ecology > Bibliography
- Environmental protection > Bibliography
- 43.00 environmental science: general
- Environnement
- Bibliographies
- Environmental protection
- Human ecology
- Bibliografie
- Umweltschutz
- Sociale ecologie
- Bibliografieën
- environment
- environmental protection
- ecology
- quality of life
- urban development
- water quality
- nature conservation
- transport
- chronology
- law
- environnement
- protection de l'environnement
- écologie
- qualité de la vie
- développement urbain
- qualité de l'eau
- conservation de la nature
- transports
- chronologie
- droit
- medio ambiente
- protección ambiental
- ecología
- calidad de la vida
- desarrollo urbano
- calidad del agua
- conservación de la naturaleza
- transportes
- cronología
- derecho
- Genre/Form
- Bibliography
- bibliographies.
- Bibliographies
- guide.
- literature survey.
- directory.
- bibliography.
- Bibliographies.
- revue de littérature.
- répertoire.
- bibliographie.
- guía.
- artículo bibliográfico.
- directorio.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- "The manuscript was developed by the Association of American Geographers from original works commissioned by the Association."
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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-244776
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library