Nature's Allies Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Nielsen, Larry (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2017.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2017.
• Θέματα: Nature conservation.; Environmental health.; Climate change.; Environmental sciences-Philosophy.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Nature Conservation.; Environmental Health.; Climate Change.; Environmental Philosophy.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges-but we need inspiration more than ever. With political leaders who deny climate change, species that are fighting for their very survival, and the planet's last places of wilderness growing smaller and smaller, what ca...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword \ Curt Meine
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: John Muir, Earth-Citizen, Universe
• Chapter 2: Ding Darling, The Best Friend a Duck Ever Had
• Chapter 3: Aldo Leopold, "A Very Large and Important Sumpin"
• Chapter 4: Rachel Carson, "The Lady Who Started All This"
• Chapter 5: Chico Mendes, Gandhi of the Amazon
• Chapter 6: Billy Frank, Jr., The Getting-Arrested Guy
• Chapter 7: Wangari Maathai, The Green Crusader
• Chapter 8: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Godmother of Sustainable Development
• About the Author
• Index.