Format:
1 online resource (220 pages)
ISBN:
9780813539225
Content:
In New Jersey's Environments, historians, policy-makers, and earth scientists use a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, resources, and conservation. Nine essays consider topics ranging from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness. The state is astonishingly diverse and faces more than the usual competing interests from environmentalists, citizens, and businesses. This book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, all of which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Nature's Next Exit? or Why New Jersey is as Important as Yellowstone National Park -- Part I: History and Contexts -- Chapter 1: A Natural History of the Life and Death of a Great American City: Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1850-2000 -- Chapter 2: Solid Waste Management in "The Garbage State": New Jersey's Transformation from Landfilling to Incineration -- Part II: Policy and Law -- Chapter 3: Oysters, Public Trust, and the Law in New Jersey -- Chapter 4: Citizen Expertise and Citizen Action in the Creation of the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act -- Chapter 5: The Free Fishing Controversy of Sussex County, New Jersey -- Part III: New Jersey Environments Today -- Chapter 6: Tracking New Jersey's Changing Landscape -- Chapter 7: Evaluating the Effects of Historical Land Cover Change on Summertime Weather and Climate in New Jersey -- Chapter 8: A Century of Natural Disasters in a State of Changing Vulnerability: New Jersey, 1900-1999 -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813537184
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813537184
Language:
English
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Volltext
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