Quiet Crisis

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Handbook For Environmental Risk Decision Making

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Author : C. Richard Cothern
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-07-17

Handbook For Environmental Risk Decision Making written by C. Richard Cothern and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.

This handbook describes the broad aspects of risk management involving scientific policy judgment, uncertainty analysis, perception considerations, statistical insights, and strategic thinking. This book presents all the important concepts to enable the reader to "see the big picture." This ability is extremely important - it allows the decision maker or strategic environmental planner to understand and cope with a wide variety of complex and interlinked pieces of information and data. The text presents environmental problems and, whenever applicable, the methodology required to reach a successful solution. Decisions and policies are examined. The book covers numerous objective and subjective components of environmental risk decision making. It details quantitative and comparative risk, and investigates the cost and feasibility of different decisions. Social pressures, safety, and political, religious, ethical, and psychological issues are addressed. How to evaluate the potential impact on the quality of life also is discussed. Any company doing risk assessment, risk management, or risk communication, as well as those doing environmental decision making will find this reference to be invaluable. It is also suitable as a text for courses in environmental management, environmental science, and risk assessment in the areas of risk management and strategic environmental planning.

The Green Years 1964 1976

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Author : Gregg Coodley
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2021-09-30

The Green Years 1964 1976 written by Gregg Coodley and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with History categories.

In The Green Years, 1964–1976, Gregg Coodley and David Sarasohn offer the first comprehensive history of the period when the United States created the legislative, legal, and administrative structures for environmental protection that are still in place over fifty years later. Coodley and Sarasohn tell a dramatic story of cultural change, grassroots activism, and political leadership that led to the passage of a host of laws attacking pollution under President Johnson. At the same time, with Stewart Udall as secretary of the interior, the Wilderness Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and other land-protection measures were passed and the department shifted its focus from western resource development to broader national conservation issues. The magnitude of what was accomplished was without precedent, even under conservation-minded presidents like the two Roosevelts. The fast-paced story the authors tell is not only about the Democratic Party; in this era there was still a vital Republican conservation tradition. In the 1960s, Republicans were chronologically as close to Teddy Roosevelt as to Donald Trump. In both the House and Senate and in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Republicans played vital roles. It was President Nixon who established the Environmental Protection Agency and signed into law the 1970 Clean Air Act, revisions in 1972 to the Clean Water Act, and the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Under Nixon, actions were taken to protect the oceans, forests, coastal zones, and grasslands while regulating chemicals, pesticides, and garbage. The authors analyze the full range of transformations during the “Green Years,” from the creation of entirely new pollution-control industries to backpacking becoming mass recreation to how revelations about chemical exposure spurred the natural food movement. And not least, the tectonic shift in the political landscape of the United States with the western states becoming Republican bastions and centers of ongoing backlash against the federal government. The Green Years, 1964–1976 is the story of environmental progress in the midst of war and civil unrest, and of the lessons we can learn for our future.

Circulation Of Power

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Author : Michael M. Widdersheim
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-05-22

Circulation Of Power written by Michael M. Widdersheim and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

What is the public sphere, how is it best described, and what role does it play in modern life? These questions have attracted considerable attention within library and information science circles over several decades, especially regarding public libraries. Circulation of Power contributes to this discussion by proposing a new research framework and new methods for analyzing public sphere communication. Using extensive data gathered from an urban public library infrastructure, this historical case study demonstrates how public sphere communication shaped the infrastructure’s development over time, producing both changes and continuities across the case’s nine periods. Two new conceptual tools—circuits and decisions cycles—form the study’s research framework, and a new explanatory theory—RLCr, or "Releaser," theory—accounts for why the infrastructure developed as it did. Consideration of competing theories reveals that public sphere communication remains the best explanation for infrastructural development. This book’s meticulous historical narrative of the greater Pittsburgh case, supplemented by its groundbreaking theory and innovative mixed methods design, is of interest to practitioners, academics, and general readers alike.

Congressional Record

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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Law categories.

The Quiet Crisis

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Author : Stewart L Cn Udall
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09

The Quiet Crisis written by Stewart L Cn Udall and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Our Limits Transgressed

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Author : Bob Pepperman Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Our Limits Transgressed written by Bob Pepperman Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Political Science categories.

Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment?

Quiet Crisis

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Author : Stewart L. Udall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

Quiet Crisis written by Stewart L. Udall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.

Social Problems

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Author : Thomas J. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1980

Social Problems written by Thomas J. Sullivan and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.

Annual Report Of The Board Of Mediation And Arbitration Of The State Of New York

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Author : New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895

Annual Report Of The Board Of Mediation And Arbitration Of The State Of New York written by New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.

The New Urban Park

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Author : Hal Rothman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

The New Urban Park written by Hal Rothman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Nature categories.

From Yellowstone to the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks are sprawling tracts of serenity, most of them carved out of public land for recreation and preservation around the turn of the last century. America has changed dramatically since then, and so has its conceptions of what parkland ought to be. In this book, one of our premier environmental historians looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype for the twenty-first century. Cobbled together from public and private lands in a politically charged arena, the GGNRA represents a new direction for parks as it highlights the long-standing tension within the National Park Service between preservation and recreation. Long a center of conservation, the Bay Area was well positioned for such an innovative concept. Writing with insight and wit, Rothman reveals the many complex challenges that local leaders, politicians, and the NPS faced as they attempted to administer sites in this area. He tells how Representative Phillip Burton guided a comprehensive bill through Congress to establish the park and how he and others expanded the acreage of the GGNRA, redefined its mission to the public, forged an identity for interconnected parks, and struggled against formidable odds to obtain the San Francisco Presidio and convert it into a national park. Engagingly written, The New Urban Park offers a balanced examination of grassroots politics and its effect on municipal, state, and federal policy. While most national parks dominate the economies of their regions, GGNRA was from the start tied to the multifaceted needs of its public and political constituents--including neighborhood, ethnic, and labor interests as well as the usual supporters from the conservation movement. As a national recreation area, GGNRA helped redefine that category in the public mind. By the dawn of the new century, it had already become one of the premier national park areas in terms of visitation. Now as public lands become increasingly scarce, GGNRA may well represent the future of national parks in America. Rothman shows that this model works, and his book will be an invaluable resource for planning tomorrow's parks.