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Unlikely environmentalists : Congress and clean water, 1945-1972 /
"Environmental activism has most often been credited to grassroots protesters, but much early progress in environmental protection originated in the halls of congress. As Paul Milazzo shows, a coterie of unlikely environmentalists placed water quality issues on the national agenda as early as t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Development. Setting the agenda : John Blatnik and the developmental politics of water pollution control
- The solution to pollution is dilution : the 1960 Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources
- The education of an entrepreneur : Edmund S. Muskie and the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
- Part II. Systems. Thinking in systems : the rise of professional ecology
- From pollution control to environmental quality : the challenge of NEPA
- The movement's moment : the challenge of environmentalism
- Part III. Synthesis. The strange career of the Corps of Engineers : transforming water pollution control policy
- Drafting the Clean Water Act : systems thinking and the "ecologically sound society"
- Defending the Clean Water Act : confronting friends and foes.