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Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Pamela Hill
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Paperback. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: KCN; LBBP; RND; RNF; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
In 1962, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sounded an alarm: the natural environment is being dangerously degraded because of human activity. Ever since, environmental protection has been a major societal concern. A robust system of environmental laws has emerged in the United States, commercial activities are increasingly scrutinized for their environmental impact, and communities around the world are becoming aware of the environment as a global issue requiring international attention. The most important evidence comes from the environment itself: the planet is warming, water supplies are at risk, ecosystems are under stress, and species are being lost at an unprecedented ... Read more
In 1962, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sounded an alarm: the natural environment is being dangerously degraded because of human activity. Ever since, environmental protection has been a major societal concern. A robust system of environmental laws has emerged in the United States, commercial activities are increasingly scrutinized for their environmental impact, and communities around the world are becoming aware of the environment as a global issue requiring international attention. The most important evidence comes from the environment itself: the planet is warming, water supplies are at risk, ecosystems are under stress, and species are being lost at an unprecedented ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190223076
SKU
V9780190223076
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Ref
99-48
About Pamela Hill
Pamela Hill is an environmental lawyer and former Deputy Regional Counsel at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Regional Office, with extensive experience as a career senior attorney at the USEPA. She is a lecturer in environmental law at Boston University School of Law and has also taught environmental law at Northeastern University School of Law.
Reviews for Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Pam Hill is one of the most talented and thoughtful environmental lawyers in the country. She is also a great communicator who is able to take complicated ideas and break them down for common understanding. For years, she helped shape policy and law at the United States Environmental Protection Agency and is now, through this important new contribution, shaping and ... Read more