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Synopsis
An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present—with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.
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Sam Hays' insights into modern American environmental thought are as stimulating as they are original. This books close analysis of the long-standing interplay bpmental and environmental values, and his prediction that these constructs will continue in tandem and in tension for the foreseeable future is shrewd. But with Hays as our guide, we have a fighting chance to insure a broader extension of green perspectives in the new century.Char Miller, co-author of The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America, editor of Water in the West: A High Country News Reader, and co-editor of Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History
A History of the early twentieth-century conservation movement, published in 1958, helped to launch environmental history as a field and his continued writings after coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 1960 helped to bring the field to full flower. Now he has produced another volley which promises to continue to energize this growing and dynamic field of study, A History of Environmental Politics since 1945.
Hays provides an overview of environmental politics during the last half century, both its formative and its maturing years, that will be useful to those who are actively engaged in environmental affairs and those who wish to watch and assess it from the sidelines. His themes are both simple and diverse. His overall focus is on thht and action, on the one hand, and the intense opposition to that drive on the other.
Hays explores a wide range of issues such as the role of nature in an urban society; pollution and its causes and effects; the impact of an ever increasing population and its voracious appetite to consume. At the same time he follows these threads through science, technology, economics, management, the structure of polt that promises to engage the nation ever more fully in the years to come.
AUT newsletters and magazines, now housed in the Environmental Archives of the Archives of Industrial Society at the University of Pittsburgh.
About the Author
Samuel P. Hays, the recipient of the 1999 Organization of American Historians Distinguished Service Award, is professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh, and is author of Explorations in Environmental History; Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 18901920; and, with Barbara D. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 19551985, now considered a classic in the field. He and Barbara have amassed an extensive collection of documents, covering foreign and domestic issues and including material from all fifty states and more than four-hundred nationally circulated environmental periodicals, state newsletters and magazines, now housed in the Environmental Archives of the Archives of Industrial Society at the University of Pittsburgh.
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- PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0822941287
- ISBN 13 9780822941286
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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