Neil M Maher

New Jersey's Environments

Past, Present, and Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, this book documents the innovations and compromises created in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey. Topics considered range from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780813537191
• ISBN-10: 0813537193
• Artikelnr.: 21540981

Autorenporträt

NEIL M. MAHER is an assistant professor in the federated department of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : Nature's next exit? or Why New Jersey is as important as
Yellowstone National Park / Neil M. Maher
A natural history of the life and death of a great American city : Atlantic
City, New Jersey, 1850-2000 / Bryant Simon
Solid waste management in "The garbage state" : New Jersey's transformation
from landfilling to incineration / Eileen McGurty
Oysters, public trust, and the law in New Jersey / Bonnie J. McCay
Citizen expertise and citizen action in the creation of the Freshwater
Wetlands Protection Act / Heather Fenyk and David H. Guston
The free fishing controversy of Sussex County, New Jersey / Robert W.
Reynolds
Tracking New Jersey's changing landscape / Richard Lathrop and John Hasse
Evaluating the effects of historical land cover change on summertime
weather and climate in New Jersey / Paul S. Wichansky [and others]
A century of natural disasters in a state of changing vulnerability : New
Jersey, 1900-1999 / James K. Mitchell