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Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985

By Samuel P. Hays

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0521389283, 9780521389280
Open Library ID
OL22364948M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15983669 bytes)
Series
Studies in Environment and History
Pages
648\646
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances. He examines the politics of environmental science, economic analysis, planning, and management, and traces the impact of environmental issues on local, state, and federal government. The book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions and to establish their relationship to social change.

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