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The debates that surround our environment and conservation efforts are often complex and compelling. Student researchers can use this reference source to explore the many issues surrounding environmental matters through the lives of people who have become actively involved in supporting efforts to preserve our environment. This unique approach to the topic provides profiles of these individuals, highlighting the different reasons for each one's deep involvement in environmental concerns and the different elements involved in the environmental debate as a whole.
Writers, teachers, scientists, and even teenage students are among those who put a human face to the complicated issues surrounding our environment and the needs to preserve it. Readers can expect to experience a range of emotions, and to question their own views, as they explore the complex issues of individual and business rights, the role of government in keeping our environment clean and safe, and public health questions from a variety of perspectives. A time line of important events concerning the environment and references to additional sources are additional tools this volume provides to help students understand the complexity of the arguments that surround the topic of our environment.
List of contents
Introduction
Edward Abbey
Ansel Easton Adams
Gloria Elaine "Glo" Hollister Anable
John James Audubon
Hugh Hammond Bennett
Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft
Murray Bookchin
Lee Botts
David Brower
Lester R. Brown
Robert D. Bullard
Archibald Fairly Carr
Rachel L. Carson
George Catlin
Barry Commoner
Max Cordova
Jay Norwood Darling
Will Dilg
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Nevada Dove
Mark Dubois
Sylvia Earle
Rosalie Edge
Paul Ehrlich and Anne Howland Ehrlich
Dave Foreman
Dian Fossey
David Gaines
Lois Gibbs
Chellis Glendinning
Charles R. Goldman
George Bird Grinnell
Juana Beatriz Gutiérrez
David Haenke
Garrett Hardin
Paul Hawken
Denis Hayes
Randy Hayes
Hazel Henderson
Huey D. Johnson
Danny Kennedy
Helen Kim
Winona LaDuke
Aldo Leopold
Robert MacArthur
Robert Marshall
Ynes Mexia
Stephanie Mills
Richard Moore
John Muir
Margaret and Olaus Murie
Ralph Nader
William Albert Niering
Eugene Odum
Frederick Olmstead
Sigurd Olson
Margaret Wentworth Owings
Ruth Patrick
Maria Perez
Roger Tory Peterson
Gifford Pinchet
Ocean Robbins
Theodore Roosevelt
Kirkpatrick Sale
George Schaller
Peggy Shepard
Karen Silkwood
Cathrine Sneed
Wallace Earle Stegner
Edwin Way Teale
Maria Telkes
Henry David Thoreau
John Todd and Nancy Jack Todd
Fabiola Tostado
Phil Williams
Edward O. Wilson
Susan Witt
Hazel Wolfe
Joan Luedders Wolfe
Howie Wolke
Howard Zahniser
About the author
JOHN MONGILLO is a science writer and coauthor of
The Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (Oryx Press, 2000) and coauthor of the series
Reading About Science.
BIBI BOOTH is an environmental education specialist with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
