Provides entries on various controversial environmental topics. Entries include contextual and historical overviews, legal background, examples of local incidents and events, and projections.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Guide to Related Topics.
Preface.
Introduction.
1: Acid Rain.
2: Air Pollution.
3: Animals Used for Testing and Research.
4: Arctic Wildlife Refuge and Oil Drilling.
5: Automobile Energy Efficiencies.
6: Avalanches.
7: Big-Box Retail Development.
8: Brownfields Development.
9: Cancer from Electromagnetic Radiation.
10: Carbon Offsets.
11: Carbon Taxes.
12: Cell Phones and Electromagnetic Radiation.
13: Childhood Asthma and the Environment.
14: Children and Cancer.
15: Citizen Monitoring of Environmental Decisions.
16: Climate Change.
17: Collaboration in Environmental Decision Making.
18: Community-Based Environmental Planning.
19: Community-Based Science.
20: Community Right-to-Know Laws.
21: Conservation in the World.
22: Cultural vs. Animal Rights: The Makah Tribe and Whaling.
23: Cumulative Emissions, Impacts, and Risks.
24: Different Standards of Enforcement of Environmental Law.
25: Drought.
26: Ecological Risk Management Decisions at Superfund Sites.
27: Ecosystem Risk Assessment.
28: Ecotourism as a Basis for Protection of Biodiversity.
29: Endangered Species.
30: Environment and War.
31: Environmental Audits and Environmental Audit Privileges.
