Paradise lost? : the environmental history of Florida /

This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish exploration to the present. With 4 b & w figures.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Jack E., 1956-, Arsenault, Raymond
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2005.
Colección:Florida history and culture series.
Temas:
Environmental policy > Florida > History.
Environmental degradation > Florida > History.
Landscape changes > Florida > History.
Wetland conservation > Florida > History.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Floride > Histoire.
Environnement > Dégradation > Floride > Histoire.
Paysages > Modifications > Floride > Histoire.
Zones humides > Conservation > Floride > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Ecology.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental policy.
Landscape changes.
Wetland conservation.
Umweltgefährdung
Florida > Environmental conditions.
Floride > Conditions environnementales.
Florida.
Florida
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between topos and the terrain : a brief survey of Florida environmental writing, 1513-1821 / Thomas Hallock
  • An eighteenth-century flower child : William Bartram / Charlotte M. Porter
  • A naturalist's place : Archie Carr and the nature of Florida / Frederick R. Davis
  • "Improving" paradise : the Civilian Conservation Corps and environmental change in Florida / Dave Nelson
  • Water, water everywhere / Christopher F. Meindl
  • The Everglades and the Florida dream / David McCally
  • The trials and tribulations of Amos Quito : the creation of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association / Gordon Patterson
  • "Nature's navels" : an overview of the many environmental histories of Florida citrus / Christian Warren
  • The public storm : hurricanes and the state in twentieth-century America / Raymond Arsenault
  • Alligators and plume birds : the despoliation of Florida's living aesthetic / Jack E. Davis
  • Blasting through paradise : the construction and consequences of the Tamiami Trail / Gary Garrett
  • Lake Apopka : from natural wonder to unnatural disaster / Nano Riley
  • "Conservation is now a dead word" : Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the transformation of American environmentalism / Jack E. Davis
  • A "monstrous desecration" : dredge and fill in Boca Ciega Bay / Bruce Stephenson
  • "We must free ourselves ... from the tattered fetters of the booster mentality" : Big Cypress Swamp and the politics of environmental protection in 1970s Florida / Gordon E. Harvey
  • "The big ditch" : the rise and fall of the cross-Florida barge canal / Lee Irby.

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