Crossroads: Environmental Priorities For The Future
Crossroads: Environmental Priorities For The Future
contributions by Barry Commoner, Lois Marie Gibbs, Karen J. Stults, John Cole, Nathaniel Reed, Stewart L. Udall, Frederic P. Sutherland, Vawter Parker, Tom Turner, Huey D. Johnson, Michael Frome, Robert Boyle, John Terborgh, Amos End, Charles E. Little, Richard S. Booth, Cynthia Wilson, James Gustave Speth, Amos Eno, Jay D. Hair, J. William Futrell and Kathryn Fuller edited by Peter Borrelli
Island Press, 1988 Cloth: 978-0-933280-68-7 | eISBN: 978-1-59726-885-1 | Paper: 978-0-933280-67-0 Library of Congress Classification QH75.C74 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 363.7
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The environmental movement today is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessment of the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders and activists, including Barry Commoner, Stewart Udall, William K. Reilly, Gus Speth, Jay Hair, Lois Gibbs, Michael Frome, Chuck Little, and William Futrell.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Peter Borrelli lives in New York and was editor of The Amicus Journal, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction \ Peter Borrelli
PART I. Trends
Chapter 1. Environmentalism at a Crossroads \ Peter Borrelli
Chapter 2. The Monkeywrenchers \ Dick Russell
Chapter 3. The Legal Eagles \ Tom Turner
Chapter 4. The Ecophilosophers \ Peter Borrelli
PART II. Perspectives
Chapter 5. A View Toward the Nineties \ William K Reilly, Jr.
Chapter 6. Encounter with the Reagan "Revolution" \ Stewart Udall
Chapter 7. Forecast for Disaster \ Robert H. Boyle
Chapter 8. The Environment \ Bany Commoner
Chapter 9. Environmental Pollution: High and Rising \ Gus Speth
Chapter 10. Environmentalists at Law \ Fredric P Sutherland and Vawter Parker
Chapter 11. Environmental Law-Twenty Years Later \ William Futrell
Chapter 12. The Earth's Environment: A Legacy in Jeopardy \ Jay D. Hair
Chapter 13. Managing the Future, If We Want To \ Peter A. A. Berte
Chapter 14. One Step Forward \ John N. Cole
Chapter 15. Environmental Quality as a National Purpose \ Huey D. Johnson
Chapter 16. A View from the Trenches \ Cynthia Wilson
Chapter 17. Looking Backwards \ Nathaniel P. Reed and Amos S. Eno
Chapter 18. On Grassroots Environmentalism \ Lois Marie Gibbs and Karen Stults
Chapter 19. Heal the Earth, Heal the Soul \ Michael Frome
Chapter 20. The National Forests and the Environmental Movement \ Randal O'Toole
Chapter 21. In a Landscape of Hope \ Charles E. Little
Chapter 22. Environmental Protection: Luxury of the Rich or Requirement of the Poor? \ Janet Welsh Braum
Chapter 23. Forging a Viable Future \ Richard S. Booth
Chapter 24. The Ecological Age \ Thomas Beny
List of Contributors
Index
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