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Lynton Keith Caldwell : An Environmental Visionary and the National Environmental Policy Act

This is the story of a visionary leader, Lynton Keith Caldwell, who in the early 1960s introduced the study of the environment and environmental policy at a time when such areas of expertise did not exist. For the next three decades, Caldwell played a leading role in establishing ethics-based enviro...

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Autor principal: Wertz, Wendy Read
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE: Choosing an Environmental Path; 1 A Century of History and Heritage: The Roots of an Environmental Focus; 2 Marriage, War, Children, and Career; 3 Choosing a Different Path; 4 A New Focus on Education: Ecology and the Environment Become Political Issues, 1965-1968; 5 "Those Were Exciting Years": Toward a National Policy for the Environment; 6 The National Environmental Policy Act and the Start of the "Environmental Decade"; 7 Early Challenges to NEPA: Trying for National Land-Use Policy; 8 NEPA, a New School, and New Directions.
  • 9 Increasing International Focus: The "Visiting Professor"10 Conservation versus Consumption: A Division in Social Philosophy; 11 The Years of Going Backward; 12 Retirement: A New Focus on Global Environmental Issues; 13 Strengthening NEPA through a Constitutional Amendment; 14 The Grand Old Man of Environmental Policy; 15 The Final Years; EPILOGUE: Leaving a Legacy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.