The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

Glossary acid rain water in the atmosphere that, having picked up acids or acid-forming compounds (such as carbon dioxide) from ...

306 The Environmental Debate cap and trade system of setting limits on power plant emissions and permitting companies whose emis ...

Glossary 307 environmentalism advocacy of the conservation and maintenance of the natural environment and the limitation or reve ...

308 The Environmental Debate landfill trash and garbage disposed of by dumping it on low-lying ground or burying it between laye ...

Glossary 309 runoff the portion of precipitation that drains off the surface rather than soaking into the ground. shale fine-gra ...

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Notes Introduction See Jane Lubchenko, “Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Sci- ence,” Science ...

312 The Environmental Debate South America). There is also some questionable evidence of humans living in South America as early ...

Notes 313 Cosgrove, History of Sanitation, p. 88. Haeckel, Generelle Morphologie de Organismen, trans. and quoted in Council of ...

314 The Environmental Debate After more than $100 million had been spent and the project was in its final stages, the Supreme C ...

Notes 315 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I, Climate Change: The IPCC Sci- entific Assessment, ed. J. ...

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Further Readings Albright, Horace M. (as told to Robert Cahn). The Birth of the National Park Service. Salt Lake City: Howe Brot ...

318 The Environmental Debate Boyle, Robert H. The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979. B ...

Further Reading 319 Darling, Jay N. John Muir and His Legacy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. Dean, Cornelia. Against the Tide: The ...

320 The Environmental Debate Geller, Lawrence D., ed. Pilgrims in Eden: Conservation Policies at New Plymouth. Wakefield, MA: Pr ...

Further Reading 321 Kirby, David. Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and t ...

322 The Environmental Debate Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., and Theodora Kimball, eds. Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Archi- tec ...

Further Reading 323 Roosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography. New York: Macmillan, 1914. Royte, Elizabeth. Bottlema- nia: Big Busin ...

324 The Environmental Debate Tidwell, Mike. The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America ...