The greening of a nation? : environmentalism in the United States since 1945 / Hal K. Rothman ; under the general editorship of Gerald W. [i.e. D.] Nash and Richard W. Etulain.
Material type: TextSeries: Harbrace books on America since 1945Publication details: Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1998.Description: xiii, 219 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0155028553
- 9780155028555
- GE197 .R68 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index.
The quiet afterglow : environment as an upper-class phenomenon -- The Echo Park controversy and the resurgence : from the Colorado River Storage Project to the Wilderness Act of 1964 -- Institutional environmentalism : federal agencies and their publics -- Idealism, utopianism, and the newest back-to-nature movement : the 1960s -- Environment reaches the government : NEPA, EPA, Earth Day, and the rebirth of bipartisan political support -- Risk and culture : nuclear power, hazardous waste, the Superfund, and the concept of "environmental justice" -- Arch villain, hero, or consensus-buster? James Watt and the end of an era -- Earth Day revisited : a global ethos or a political problem?