Protecting New Jersey''s Environment - From Cancer Alley to the New Garden State

Informationen zum Autor Belton, Thomas Klappentext In Protecting New Jersey's Environment! critical environmental concerns translate into real human interest stories about people and their surroundings in the state-a critical site for the growth of environmentalism. The book explores the science underpinning environmental issues and the public policy infighting that goes undocumented behind the scenes and beneath the controversies. It demonstrates the ways that scientists! regulators! lobbyists! and politicians interact and offers the public a go-to guide on how to seek environmental protection in practical ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The War on Cancer 2. Poisoned Fish 3. The Quality of Water 4. Radiation Proctection 5. Environmental Crime 6. Environmental Warfare 7. The Lure of Brownfields 8. Environmental Justice 9. The Woodlands  10. The Biotic Mosaic 11. Headwaters and Watersheds 12. Coastal New Jersey and Rising Waters Afterword Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Belton, Thomas J. Belton
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2010
• EAN: 9780813548876
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4887-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Rivergate Regionals Collection
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology