San Antonio College Library

Environmental attorney, professor, and author Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks about the environmental issues facing the United States, and the roles of government and mass media. A question-and-answer session follows.

"Rosenbaum's classic, comprehensive text once more provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. Notable revisions include: A completely revamped energy chapter covering conventional energy policy as well as a comparative examination of alternatives to current energy production. ; Expanded discussion of current U.S. climate change policy with attention...

This text brings together top scholars to evaluate the continuities and changes in U.S. environmental policy since the late 1960s and to discuss their implications for the early twenty-first century, helping students decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape environmental politics. -- Amazon.com.

Presents ten articles from "The CQ Researcher" magazine in which the authors discuss topics related to the fight to save the environment, each with notes and a bibliography; and includes tips on writing research papers.

Offers a critique of the environmental policies of the Bush administration, arguing that the president's extreme agenda threatens the well-being of not only wildlife and natural habitats, but also the funding of governmental regulatory agencies.

From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos--to keep nature apart, to protect it. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial intensification, and other anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the eart is now spinning through the age of humans....

"This resource features the latest information on the global environmental crisis in the twentieth century. Ideal for student research, it examines the main causes of environmental concern and the key players who raised the environmental consciousness of the public. Following a timeline of key events and a historical overview of the environmental crisis, topical essays examine each of the major areas of environmental concern: our vanishing wilderness,...

"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts."--Dust jacket flap.