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Note: Each chapter concludes with Further Reading | |
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What Is Environmental History? Essays | |
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Doing Environmental History | |
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Predicting Environmental History | |
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Using Environmental History | |
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Interpreting Environmental History | |
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Native American Ecology and European Contact Documents | |
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A Spanish Explorer Views the Pueblos, 1580 | |
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Spanish Explorers Observe Pueblo Irrigation, 1582 | |
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A Spaniard Testifies on the Effects of Pueblo Colonization, 1601 | |
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Nicholas Denys Describes the Micmac Fur Trade, 1672 | |
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A Jesuit Missionary Recalls Micmac Hunting Rituals, 1691 | |
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Lewis and Clark Describe the Great Plains, 1804 | |
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Plains Indians' Pictographs, Recorded by George Catlin in 1844 Essays | |
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Pueblos and Spanish in the Southwest | |
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Micmacs and French in the Northeast | |
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Indians and Bison on the Great Plains | |
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The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century Documents | |
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William Bradford Faces a "Hideous and Desolate Wilderness," 1620-1635 | |
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John Winthrop Sets Forth the Grounds for Settling in New England, 1629 | |
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Thomas Morton Praises the New English Canaan, 1632 | |
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William Wood Portrays Indian Women's Housing and Horticulture, 1634 | |
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Anne Bradstreet Eulogizes Nature, 1650 | |
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Edward Johnson Describes the Transformation of the Wilderness, 1654 | |
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A Timber Merchant's Estate, 1682 | |
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Cotton Mather Presents the Scale of Nature, 1721 | |
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A Governor Enforces the King's Forest Policy, 1730 Essays | |
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A Beaver's Perspective on North American History | |
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A Colonist's Perspective on the New England Forest | |
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Puritan Perspectives on the New England Environment | |
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Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South Documents | |
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John White Depicts Indian Planting and Fishing in North Carolina, 1590 | |
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Virginia Settlers Discover Tobacco, 1614-1617 | |
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A Chesapeake Planter Describes His Holdings, 1686 | |
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Robert Beverley Discourses on Indians and Nature in Virginia, 1705 | |
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A Governor Explains South Carolina Rice Production, 1761 | |
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A Traveler Describes Tobacco Cultivation, 1775 | |
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Thomas Jefferson Discusses the "Nature" of Blacks and Worn-Out Soils, 1787 | |
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Olaudah Equiano Describes His Enslavement, 1790 Essays | |
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Tobacco and Soils in the Chesapeake | |
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Rice and Slaves in the Low Country | |
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Black Indians in the South | |
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Farms and Cities in the Early Republic Documents | |
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J. Hector St. John de Cr?vecoeur Asks, "What Is an American?" 1782 | |
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Thomas Jefferson Extols the Agrarian Ideal, 1787 | |
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Benjamin Rush Praises the Market Farmers of Pennsylvania, 1789 | |
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Anna Howell's Farm Diary, 1820 | |
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Samuel Slater's Proposal on Cotton Spinning, 1789 | |
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe on Polluted Water in Philadelphia, 1798 | |
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John James Audubon Depicts the Squatters of the Mississippi, 1808-1834 | |
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Calvin Colton on Self-Made Men, 1844 Essays | |
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Farms and Subsistence | |
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Pollution and Cities Theodore Steinberg, Water and Industry | |
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Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century Documents | |
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Phillis Wheatley Eulogizes Nature, 1773 | |
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John James Audubon Describes Shooting Birds, 1808-1834 | |
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James Fenimore Cooper Laments the "Wasty Ways" of Pioneers, 1823 | |
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Hudson River Painters Depict Nature, 1836-1849 | |
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George Catlin on Indians, Nature, and Civilization, 1844 | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Expounds on Nature and Wealth, 1844 | |
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Henry David Thoreau on Nature Versus Civilization, 1854 | |
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Rebecca Harding Davis on Pollution and Human Life in the Iron Mills, 1861 Essays | |
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Civilization over Nature Robert | |
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Nature over Civilization | |
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Slave Women and Nature | |
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The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War Documents | |
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Frances Anne Kemble Discusses Slavery and Nature in Georgia, 1838-1839 | |
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A Georgia Planter Tells Why Cotton Pays, 1847 | |
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Frederick Law Olmsted Describes Cotton Production and Environmental Deterioration, 1861 | |
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Sharecroppers' Contracts, 1876-1886 | |
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Freed Slave Louis Hughes Describes Cotton Raising and Cotton Worms, 1897 | |
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A Louisiana Convention Declares War on the Boll Weevil, 1903 | |
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Ex-Slaves Describe Their Means of Subsistence, 1937 | |
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A Freed Slave Explains "Why That Boll Weevil Done Come," 1945 Essays | |
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Soils Used Eugene Genovese | |
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Soils Abused Theodore Steinberg | |
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Soils Extracted | |
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Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century Documents | |
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A Russian Sailor Depicts the Sea Otter Trade, 1813 | |
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A Manager Describes the Russian American Company, 1835 | |
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Senator Thomas Hart Benton Explains Manifest Destiny, 1846 | |
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A Federal Agent Assesses Mining's Impact on the Indians, 1853 | |
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James Marshall Tells How He Discovered Gold, 1857 | |
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Joaquin Miller Reveals the Environmental Deterioration in the Gold Country, 1890 | |
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A Fish Commissioner Explains the Need for Salmon Protection, 1885 | |
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A Capitalist Advocates Salmon Hatcheries, 1893 | |
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An Indian Woman Deplores the Soreness of the Land, Recorded in 1925 Essays | |
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Otters versus Russians in Alaska | |
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Miners versus Farmers in California | |
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Salmon versus Fishers in the Northwest | |
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Great Plains Grasslands Exploited Documents | |
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Pioneer Women Portray the Plains Environment, 1860-1886 | |
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The Homestead Act, 1862 | |
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Joseph G. McCoy Describes the Chisholm Trail and Abilene Stockyards, 1874 | |
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Frederick Jackson Turner Explains the Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 | |
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John Steinbeck Depicts the Dust Bowl, 1939 | |
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Plenty-coups Mourns the Vanishing Buffalo, Recorded in 1950 | |
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An Editor Bids Good Riddance to Buffalo, 1979 Essays | |
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Great Plains Ecology | |
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Cowboy Ecology | |
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Telling Stories About Ecology | |
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Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century Documents | |
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George Perkins Marsh Discusses the Relationship of Man and Nature, 1864 | |
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John Wesley Powell Advocates Reclamation, 1878 | |
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The Reclamation Act, 1902 | |
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Theodore Roosevelt Publicizes Conservation, 1908 | |
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George L. Knapp Opposes Conservation, 1910 | |
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Mrs. Marion Crocker Argues for the Conservation Imperative, 1912 | |
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Robert Marshall Advocates the People's Forests, 1933 | |
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Hugh Bennett Presses for Soil Conservation, 1947 | |
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Gifford Pinchot Recalls the Origins of the Conservation Movement, 1947 Essays | |
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From Conservation to Environment | |
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Conservation as Reclamation | |
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Women and Conservation | |
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Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century Documents | |
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Florence Merriam Bailey Recalls the Early Audubon Women, 1900 | |
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Mary Austin Describes the Wonders of the Desert, 1903 | |
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John Muir Advocates Wilderness Preservation, 1912 | |
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The National Parks Act, 1916 | |
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Chief Luther Standing Bear Gives an Indian View of Wilderness, Recorded in 1933 | |
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The Wilderness Act, 1964 | |
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Edward Abbey on Industrial Tourism in the National Parks, 1968 Essays | |
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The Value of Wilderness | |
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Indians and Wilderness | |
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The Trouble with Wilderness | |
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Cities, Industries, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century Documents | |
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A Woman Reformer Advocates Civic Cleanliness, 1901 | |
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Upton Sinclair Describes the Chicago Stockyards, 1905 | |
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Jane Addams Works to Control Garbage in Chicago, 1910 | |
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A Woman Reformer Promotes Smoke Abatement, 1912 | |
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Henry Ford Recalls the Invention of the Automobile, 1922 | |
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A Black Migrant Experiences the Urban Environment, 1927 | |
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Alice Hamilton Discusses Industrial Poisons, 1943 | |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Promotes the Interstate Highway System, 1955 Essays | |
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Industrial Pollution and Reform | |
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Suburbs and Pollution | |
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Automobiles and Roads | |
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The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century Documents | |
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Ellen Swallow Richards Defines Human Ecology, 1907 | |
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Frederic Clements Describes Plant Succession, 1916 | |
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Henry Gleason Explains Plant Associations, 1926 | |
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Arthur Tansley Introduces the Ecosystem, 1935 | |
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Aldo Leopold Proposes a Land Ethic, 1949 | |
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Rachel Carson Warns of a Silent Spring, 1962 | |
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Eugene P. Odum Discusses the Stability of the Ecosystem, 1969 | |
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Pickett and White Explain Patch Dynamics, 1985 Essays | |
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Ellen Swallow Richards's Human Ecology | |
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Organic, Economic, and Chaotic Ecology | |
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Rachel Carson's Ecological Vision | |
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Water, Energy, and Population in the Twentieth Century Documents | |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dedicates Hoover Dam, 1935 | |
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The National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 | |
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Hopi Leaders Protest the Desecration of Their Sacred Lands, 1970 | |
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Barry Commoner Discusses the Problems of Nuclear Energy, 1971 | |
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A Federal Director Explains Environmental Risk, 1983 | |
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A Business Leader Discusses Industry's Environmental Responsibilities, 1987 | |
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Paul and Anne Ehrlich Warn of a Population Explosion, 1990 Essays | |
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Water and the Environment | |
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Energy and the Environment | |
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Environmental Regulation | |
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Globalization: The United States in the Wider World Documents | |
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Ben Chavis Reports on Toxic Wastes and Race, 1987 | |
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Carl Anthony Explains Why African Americans Should Be Environmentalists, 1990 | |
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Winona LaDuke Considers Indians' Place in the Ecosystem, 1990 | |
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Two Feminists Discuss the Emergence of Ecofeminism, 1990 | |
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The Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, 1992 | |
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The Kyoto Protocol on Global Climate Change, 1997 | |
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Reporters Announce a World Population of Six Billion People, 1999 | |
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The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, 2002 Essays | |
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Environmental Justice | |
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Environmental Philosophy | |
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Globalization and Environmental Sustainability | |