Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Centennial Celebration of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, April 5 and 6, 1916, Washington, D.C.
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability
Author: Ray C. AndersonPublisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN: 1933782730
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability provides extensive coverage of sustainability practices in two regions linked culturally and historically by their relative isolation before the Columbian exchange, by their colonization after it, and by the challenges of pollution, resource overuse, and environmental degradation. Regional experts and international scholars focus on environmental history in areas such as the South Pacific islands, now particularly threatened by rising ocean levels due to climate change, and on countries whose governments and corporations can play a major role in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices: Brazil, an emergent power on the world stage; the United States, the world's third most populous nation; and New Zealand, seemingly on its way to becoming an enviable model of sustainable development.
The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics
Author: Gerald BenjaminPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195387236
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics brings together top scholars and former and current state officials to explain how and why the state is governed the way that it is. The book's thirty-one chapters assemble new scholarship in key areas of governance in New York, document the state's record in comparison to other U.S. states, and identify directions for future research.
The Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Secretary's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
An Historical Discourse on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Lake George, 1755
Author: Cortlandt Van RensselaerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lake George, Battle of, 1755
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Tribes, Land, and the Environment
Author: Sarah KrakoffPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317006305
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law. Native American tribes have a far more complex relationship with the environment than is captured by the stereotype of Indians as environmental stewards. Meaningful tribal sovereignty requires that non-Indians recognize the right of Indians to determine their own relationship to the land and the environment. But tribes do not exist in a vacuum: in fact they are deeply affected by off-reservation activities and, similarly, tribal choices often have effects on nearby communities. This book brings together diverse essays by leading Indian law scholars across the disciplines of indigenous and environmental law. The chapters reveal the difficulties encountered by Native American tribes in attempts to establish their own environmental standards within federal Indian law and environmental law structures. Gleaning new insights from a focus on tribal land and property law, the collection studies the practice of tribal sovereignty as experienced by Indians and non-Indians, with an emphasis on the development and regulatory challenges these tribes face in the wake of climate change. This volume will advance the reader's knowledge and understanding of these challenging issues.
Tribes, Land, and the Environment
Author: Professor Ezra RosserPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 140949800X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law. Native American tribes have a far more complex relationship with the environment than is captured by the stereotype of Indians as environmental stewards. Meaningful tribal sovereignty requires that non-Indians recognize the right of Indians to determine their own relationship to the land and the environment. But tribes do not exist in a vacuum: in fact they are deeply affected by off-reservation activities and, similarly, tribal choices often have effects on nearby communities. This book brings together diverse essays by leading Indian law scholars across the disciplines of indigenous and environmental law. The chapters reveal the difficulties encountered by Native American tribes in attempts to establish their own environmental standards within federal Indian law and environmental law structures. Gleaning new insights from a focus on tribal land and property law, the collection studies the practice of tribal sovereignty as experienced by Indians and non-Indians, with an emphasis on the development and regulatory challenges these tribes face in the wake of climate change. This volume will advance the reader's knowledge and understanding of these challenging issues.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: Unguarded Border
Author: Donald W. MaxwellPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978834047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The United States is accustomed to accepting waves of migrants who are fleeing oppressive conditions and political persecution in their home countries. But in the 1960s and 1970s, the flow of migration reversed as over fifty thousand Americans fled across the border to Canada to resist military service during the Vietnam War or to escape their homeland’s hawkish society. Unguarded Border tells their stories and, in the process, describes a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Rather than treating these American refugees as unwelcome foreigners, Canada embraced them, refusing to extradite draft resisters or military deserters and not even requiring passports for the border crossing. And instead of forming close-knit migrant communities, most of these émigrés sought to integrate themselves within Canadian society. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, coming to regard themselves as global citizens, a status complicated by the Canadian government’s attempts to claim them and the U.S. government’s eventual efforts to reclaim them. Unguarded Border offers a new perspective on a movement that permanently changed perceptions of compulsory military service, migration, and national identity.