Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances. He examines the politics of environmental science, economic analysis, planning, and management, and traces the impact of environmental issues on local, state, and federal government. The book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions and to establish their relationship to social change.
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"Hays argues that environmentalists arose from a `fundamental and central' change in values among the American people following World War II. In developing his thesis Hays gives nearly encyclopedic coverage to a wide range of environmental issues, from wild lands, to toxics, to population growth, and examines attempts to resolve those issues in legislative, administrative, and judicial forums. This is a very important book. It raises issues of concern to all American historians and thus deserves wide reading and vigorous debate." Journal of American History
"The book is a marvel of integration and focus." Journal of Forest History
"...may be the most important recent work in environmental history. It is addressed to the general public, citizen activists, environmental decision makers, and historians. Encyclopedic, it covers the history of the the urban environment, public wildlands, the countryside, toxic problems, and issues of population, resources, and the limits of growth." ISIS
"Using the environmental movement as a case study, Samuel Hays looks at the way in which values emerge, are articulated in the public arena, come into conflict with established systems of production and governance, change the system, and are changed by it. Here are the considered thoughts of an excellent historian on major changes in postwar America and, as such, essential reading for anyone interested in the period." Pacific Historical Review
"The book is a marvel of integration and focus." Journal of Forest History
"...may be the most important recent work in environmental history. It is addressed to the general public, citizen activists, environmental decision makers, and historians. Encyclopedic, it covers the history of the the urban environment, public wildlands, the countryside, toxic problems, and issues of population, resources, and the limits of growth." ISIS
"Using the environmental movement as a case study, Samuel Hays looks at the way in which values emerge, are articulated in the public arena, come into conflict with established systems of production and governance, change the system, and are changed by it. Here are the considered thoughts of an excellent historian on major changes in postwar America and, as such, essential reading for anyone interested in the period." Pacific Historical Review
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The impact of environmental issues on government is traced by exploring controversial policies and clarifying relationships between political institutions and changing social values in contemporary America.
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Accounts of the rise of environmentalism frequently have emphasized its roots in the conservation movement of the early twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antienvironmental revolution, appreciative users, national amenities, citizen environmental organizations, environmental inquiry, political intelligentsia, citizen environmental groups, environmental objectives, environmental opposition, forest planning, more intensive development, high environmental quality, environmental mediation, administrative politics, environmental affairs, livestock operators, developmental ists, administrative choice, idea makers, environmental administration, environmental values, environmental leaders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forest Service, World War, United States, Sierra Club, New York, National Park Service, Clean Air Act, Environmental Era, New England, Corps of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Public Health Service, Bureau of Land Management, New Jersey, West Virginia, Executive Office of the President, Natural Resources Defense Council, Wilderness Society, Conservation Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Earth Day, National Academy of Sciences, Secretary Watt New!
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Accounts of the rise of environmentalism frequently have emphasized its roots in the conservation movement of the early twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antienvironmental revolution, appreciative users, national amenities, citizen environmental organizations, environmental inquiry, political intelligentsia, citizen environmental groups, environmental objectives, environmental opposition, forest planning, more intensive development, high environmental quality, environmental mediation, administrative politics, environmental affairs, livestock operators, developmental ists, administrative choice, idea makers, environmental administration, environmental values, environmental leaders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forest Service, World War, United States, Sierra Club, New York, National Park Service, Clean Air Act, Environmental Era, New England, Corps of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Public Health Service, Bureau of Land Management, New Jersey, West Virginia, Executive Office of the President, Natural Resources Defense Council, Wilderness Society, Conservation Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Earth Day, National Academy of Sciences, Secretary Watt New!
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- Expendable Americans: The incredible story of how tens of thousands of American men and women die each year of preventable industrial disease by Paul Brodeur in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Environmental Politics and the Coal Coalition (Environmental History Series) by Richard H. K. Vietor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Love Canal: The Story Continues... by Lois Marie Gibbs in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Environmental Law (E-Z Rules and Reviews) by Law Rules Publishing Corporation in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office on page 517, and Back Matter
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- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in Environment and History) by Adam Rome on 9 pages
- Natural States: "The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation" by Richard W. Judd on 5 pages
- The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History, Revised Edition by Norris Hundley Jr. on 4 pages
- The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Creating the North American Landscape) by Professor Martin V. Melosi PhD on 4 pages
- Voices and Echoes for the Environment: Public Interest Representation in the 1990s and Beyond by Ronald G. Shaiko in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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