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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Southern California Environmental Report Card
Author: Southern California Environmental Report Card 2004
Author: Charles J. CorbettPublisher:
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Southern California Environmental Report Card 2003
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of the EnvironmentPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Southern California Environmental Report Card 2002
Author: America's Environmental Report Card, second edition
Author: Harvey BlattPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262515911
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States, with new and updated material. Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet polls show that many have lost faith in both scientists' and politicians' ability to solve environmental problems. In America's Environmental Report Card, Harvey Blatt sorts through the deluge of conflicting information about the environment and offers an accessible overview of the environmental issues that are most important to Americans today. Blatt has thoroughly updated this second edition, revising and adding new material. He looks at water supplies and new concerns about water purity; the dangers of floods (increased by widespread logging and abetted by glacial melting); infrastructure problems (in a new chapter devoted entirely to this subject); the leaching of garbage buried in landfills; soil, contaminated crops, and organic food; fossil fuels; alternative energy sources (in another new chapter); controversies over nuclear energy; the increasing pace of climate change; and air pollution. Along the way, he outlines ways to deal with these problems—workable and reasonable solutions that map the course to a sustainable future. America can lead the way to a better environment, Blatt argues. We are the richest nation in the world, and we can afford it—in fact, we can't afford not to.
1972-1973
Author: Southern California Association of GovernmentsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Climatopolis
Author: Matthew E. KahnPublisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465063837
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
One of the worldÕs leading urban and environmental economists tells us what our lives will be like when climate change arrives
The Great Thirst
Author: Norris Hundley Jr.Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520925298
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California. The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape. The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization
Environmental impact report
Author: Southern California Association of GovernmentsPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
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Draft Growth Management Plan, Draft Environmental Impact Report
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
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"This Draft EIR evaluates the Draft GMP (Southern California Association of Governments 1988h). This Draft GMP contains existing (1984) and projected (2010) quantitative information on population, housing, and employment growth in the six-county SCAG region ... for seven growth management alternatives (GMAs), one of which is the preferred alternative (proposed project)."--Introduction.