Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American LifeBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 237 pages Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they became ever more reliant on technology to interact with the world around them and with each other. Perhaps paradoxically, the twentieth-century also became the period in which environmental issues played an ever-increasing role in politics and public policy. Why is this so? Perhaps because, despite what many people believe, nature and the environment remains central to everyone's daily life. Pollution, environmental degradation, urban sprawl, loss of wildlife and biodiversity - all of these issues directly impact how everyone - even city dwellers - live their lives. |
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... ecology and based them on his studies of the grasslands and sand hills of Nebraska . Simultaneously , Cowles's former student Victor E. Shelford extended ecological theory into the realm of animal communities . Clements began his ecological ...
... ecological thought . Ultimately , these ecological ideas would form the foundation of all of environmental thought ( Worster , Nature's Economy , 209-18 ) . THE INTERNATIONAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC EXCURSION OF 1913 The United States acted as ...
... Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan , " 86. See also Ecology Ecology : Bio - Ecology , Clements , Frederic E. , argues for plant suc- cession , 87 ; Clements and Shelford link plant and animal ecology ...