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Chesapeake (Bay) Waters: Four Centuries of Controversy, Concern, and Legislation
Steven G. Davis
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus, 35 b/w photos & 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Although media reports suggest that there always has been public concern over the health of the Chesapeake Bay, this is a fairly recent phenomenon. For centuries people saw the bay as a bottomless sink for waste products—a natural decomposer with the ability to freshen itself with ocean inflows. Not until human health and livelihood seemed threatened did people begin to think seriously about management by such methods as treating sewage and limiting seafood harvests. Chesapeake Waters chronicles four centuries of public attitudes about the bay—and legislative responses to them—from 1607, the date of the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, ... Read more
Although media reports suggest that there always has been public concern over the health of the Chesapeake Bay, this is a fairly recent phenomenon. For centuries people saw the bay as a bottomless sink for waste products—a natural decomposer with the ability to freshen itself with ocean inflows. Not until human health and livelihood seemed threatened did people begin to think seriously about management by such methods as treating sewage and limiting seafood harvests. Chesapeake Waters chronicles four centuries of public attitudes about the bay—and legislative responses to them—from 1607, the date of the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Tidewater Pub
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780870335013
SKU
V9780870335013
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