The Quiet Crisis
A History of Environmental Conservation in the USA, from the Native Americans to the Modern Day
In this book Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior from 1961-1969, details the history of great Americans who advocated for conservation and preservation of the USA?s great outdoors.A passionate and idealistic politician, Udall entered office with an immense knowledge of the environmental challenges facing the United States. The massive economic growth of the postwar boom, the construction of immense infrastructures such as the interstate highway system, and the emergence of urban sprawl as a problem confronting several states ? though these brought prosperity, they also carried great perils of irreversible environmental destruction.This w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-359-74760-3
- EAN: 9780359747603
- Produktnummer: 32255082
- Verlag: Lulu.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 130 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 201 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 201
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