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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 ...
Making Sweden an Oil-Free Society – Government of Sweden (2006) Meat Atlas – published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe; Nuclear Power and the Environment – UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution – 1976; Our Common Future – World Commission on Environment and Development (1987)
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 ...
1947 – Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District created; first air pollution agency in the US. 1948 – Federal Water Pollution Control Act; 1955 – National Air Pollution Control Act; 1959 – California Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board created to test automobile emissions and set standards.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This category lists environmental non-fiction books. See also: List of environmental ... (book) Free Market Environmentalism;
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Environmental books in this category are books that have the effects of human activity on the natural ...
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 Skeptical Environmentalist's subtitle refers to the State of the World report, published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute. [1] Lomborg designated the report "one of the best-researched and academically most ambitious environmental policy publications," but criticized it for using short-term trends to predict disastrous consequences, in cases where long-term trends would not ...