Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
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Category : Fishery law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
The Hudson River Ecosystem
Author: Karin E. LimburgPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461248744
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The Ecosystems Research Center (ERC) was established at Cornell U ni versity in October 1980 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the goals of: 1. Identifying fundamental principles and concepts of ecosystems sci ence and the determination of their importance in understanding and pre dicting the responses of ecosystems to stress, the description of the basic mechanisms that operate within ecosystems, and an examination of the stability of ecosystem structure and function in the face of stress. 2. Testing the applicability of those theoretical concepts to problems of concern to the EPA through a consideration of retrospective and other case studies. In line with these goals, the Hudson River ecosystem provided the basis for the first major retrospective study undertaken by the ERC. The goal of the project was to develop recommendations concerning how ecosystem monitoring can and should be carried out in support of EPA's regulatory responsibilities. Our hope was and is that the experience gained from this study will be broadly applicable to a range of manage ment problems involving estuarine ecosystems, and will lead to more effective regulation.
Hudson River Expressway
Author: United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hudson River Expressway
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife ConservationPublisher:
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Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 91-10. Examines anticipated impact of Hudson River Expressway on fish and wildlife resources of the Hudson River and Atlantic coastal fisheries.
Power on the Hudson
Author: Robert D. LifsetPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The beauty of the Hudson River Valley was a legendary subject for artists during the nineteenth century. They portrayed its bucolic settings and humans in harmony with nature as the physical manifestation of God's work on earth. More than a hundred years later, those sentiments would be tested as never before.In the fall of 1962, Consolidated Edison of New York, the nation's largest utility company, announced plans for the construction of a pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant at Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River, forty miles north of New York City. Over the next eighteen years, their struggle against environmentalists would culminate in the abandonment of the project. Robert D. Lifset offers an original case history of this monumental event in environmental history, when a small group of concerned local residents initiated a landmark case of ecology versus energy production. He follows the progress of this struggle, as Con Ed won approvals and permits early on, but later lost ground to environmentalists who were able to raise questions about the potential damage to the habitat of Hudson River striped bass. Lifset uses the struggle over Storm King to examine how environmentalism changed during the 1960s and 1970s. He also views the financial challenges and increasingly frequent blackouts faced by Con Ed, along with the pressure to produce ever-larger quantities of energy. As Lifset demonstrates, the environmental cause was greatly empowered by the fact that through this struggle, for the first time, environmentalists were able to gain access to the federal courts. The environmental cause was also greatly advanced by adopting scientific evidence of ecological change, combined with mounting public awareness of the environmental consequences of energy production and consumption. These became major factors supporting the case against Con Ed, spawning a range of new local, regional, and national environmental organizations and bequeathing to the Hudson River Valley a vigilant and intense environmental awareness. A new balance of power emerged, and energy companies would now be held to higher standards that protected the environment.
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
ERC.
Author: Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
The Quiet Evolution
Author: Michael HeimanPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Quiet Evolution refers to the profusion of American planning reform literature and practices dealing with local land-use control. As such, this work will be of paramount interest to planning students and practitioners, urban sociologists, political scientists, and georgraphers. Contributing to a new and exciting resurgence of critical social theory that examines popular attention to environmental quality, defense of residential districts, and other consumption issues, The Quiet Evolution will prove useful to social theorists in the field of sociology, geography, political science, and history.