Before Earth Day The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970

Name: Before Earth Day The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970
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ISBN: 9780700618934

ISBN-10: 0700618937

ISBN-13: 9780700618934

Edition: 2009

Authors: Karl Boyd Brooks

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Most Americans-even environmentalists-date the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s. But Karl Boyd Brooks shows that, far from being a product of that activist decade, American environmental law emerged well before the first Earth Day, often in unexpected places far from Capitol Hill. Surveying the landscape from the end of World War II to Earth Day 1970, Brooks traces a dramatic shift in Americans' relationship to the environment and the emergence of new environmental statutes. He takes readers into legislative hearing rooms, lawyers' conferences, and administrators' offices to describe how Americans forged a new body of law that reflected their hopes for rescuing the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 3/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English