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Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Environmental justice: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming: Richard Heinberg: M: Oil depletion: The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies: Lawrence Joseph Henderson: M: 1878– Environmental science: The Fitness of the Environment: Julia Butterfly Hill: F ...
The focus on the slow aspects of pollution in these settings is comparable to what Rob Nixon has come to call slow violence. [1] [page needed] A central concept in the book is "toxic uncertainty" that is about how residents doubt or even deny the harmful impact of pollution on their lives, and confusion among the dominated. This is generated by ...
1990 – Oil Pollution Act of 1990; 1991 – Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) 1992 – Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act; 1993 – North American Free Trade Agreement (Implementation Act) 1994 – Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.
Pages in category "Environmental non-fiction books" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 228 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Environmental books in this category are books that have the effects of human activity on the natural environment as a major theme. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors is a 2014 book by cultural geographer Carolyn Finney.The book examines the relationship between African Americans and the environment, particularly challenging the notion of the environment and environmentalism as white spaces.