Environmental Viewpoints: Selected Essays and Excerpts on Issues in Environmental Protection (Gale Environmental Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810388448 ISBN 13: 9780810388444

Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning, 1992

Synopsis

The inaugural volume in an important new annual series devoted to presenting divergent views on the most important US and global environmental topics. Volume one is a compendium of 150 article extracted from some 75 popular and professional periodicals. Entries enable researchers to scan for background information, then explore issues in considerable depth. Each article excerpted includes full bibliographic information and each entry refers readers to additional essays on the same topic. Of particular value to student researchers, but with considerable appeal to general readers, who may not want to turn the volume over to the students. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Reviews

Environmental concerns have created a demand by the public for more information. To meet this need, the publisher has created the "Environmental Library" series, patterned after their "Literature Criticism" series. The volume contains reprinted, excerpted essays from 100 popular and professional journals. Entries such as global warming, population, and wildlife conservation are 15-20 pages in length. Each entry contains a brief overview of the topic, various in-depth commentaries from the reprinted articles, and a bibliography. The articles and bibliography are somewhat outdated, with most citations published in the 1980s and only a small number from the 1990s. Gale has plans to continue this series with volumes on new subjects and updates of previous topics. Public and undergraduate libraries that need a convenient source of environmental information may want to consider, but lack of timeliness rule this out as a necessary purchase.
- Eva Lautemann, DeKalb Coll. Lib., Clarkston, Ga.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810388448
• ISBN 13: 9780810388444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Marowski Daniel