The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

346 The Environmental Debate

UNCED. See United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development
“unconventional revolution in oil and natural
gas”, 259
UNEP. See United Nations Environmental
Programme
Union of Concerned Scientists, 115, 139
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), 163, 272–76
United Nations, charter of, 144
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED), 157
United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment, 116
United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea, 162
United Nations environmental agreements, 162
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP),
116, 144, 216
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, 193
United Nations’s Food and Agriculture
Organization, 197
United Nations World Environment Day, 231
United Recycling Industries, 215
United States (U.S.): for agriculture, 64, 101; arid
lands of, 72; attention of, 69; coastal regions of,
130; demand, 245; environmental regulations,
152; e-waste in, 215; Forest Reserve System, 69;
Forestry Service, 84; fossil fuel-fired power plants
in, 109, 277; government, 21; government of,
49; industrialization and urbanization of, 22;
industrial policy, 178; laws of, 57; materials policy,
88; naturalization laws of, 49; natural resources,
109; ocean stewardship policy, 253; oil production,
109, 260; oil shale in, 109; petroleum and natural
gas in, 111; policy, 22, 205; population growth
rate in, 86, 151, 172; public lands of, 59; resource
policy, 104–5; and Soviet Union, 115, 123
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 256
“United States of Coal”, 242
United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc., 210
universal law, 19
unsanitary conditions, 68
urban: communities, 91; and environmental issues,
120; growth, 86–87; industrial and, 37–38;
population, growth of, 37; sanitation problems, 68
urban poverty, 21
USC. See Union of Concerned Scientists
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), 247
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 157
U.S. Energy Information Administration, 245

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 188,

214, 240

‘use-oriented organizations’, 41

U.S. Forest Service, 41

USGBC. See U.S. Green Building Council

U.S. Geological Survey in 1875, 41

U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 239

U.S. Navy, 22

U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural

Resources, 144, 173

U.S. Tribal Nations, 256

utility, 129

V

“vanity project,” 268

Vaux, Calvert, 40, 54–55

Vehicle Emissions Standards, 187–88

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone

Layer, 169

Vietnam war, 116

Village of Euclid et al. v. Ambler Realty Company

(1926), 90–92

voluntary act, 13

Vorsorgeprinzip, 213

W

Walden, Greg, 225

Walden, Thoreau, 122

Wald, Lillian, 68

walkable neighborhoods, 249–51

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 39

Wargo, John, 247–49

Washington, George, 22, 28–29

waste: in machine age, stuart chase on, 94; products,

harmful accumulations of, 130

water, 232; abundant, 65; availability, 107;

contamination, issue of, 253; efficiency, 240;

pollution, 87; reduction, 240; and solar energy

system, 247; supply and sewage systems, 67

Water Dependent Natural Resources of the Basin,

226, 227

watershed, 309

Watershed Management Research Division of the

Forest Service, 107

Watt, James, 79, 150

Waxman-Markey, 276

weeds, 20

west, development of, 79–81