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Title Worldmark encyclopedia of U.S. and Canadian environmental issues / Susan Bevan Gall and Margaret K. Antone, editors
Published Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, [2012]
©2012
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Description 1 online resource (lv, 691 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Series Gale virtual reference library
Contents Overview of current environmental issues, United States -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Arizona -- Arkansas -- California -- Colorado -- Connecticut -- Delaware -- Florida -- Georgia -- Hawaii -- Idaho -- Illinois -- Indiana -- Iowa -- Kansas -- Kentucky -- Louisiana -- Maine -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Michigan -- Minnesota -- Mississippi -- Missouri -- Montana -- Nebraska -- Nevada -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New Mexico -- New York -- North Carolina -- North Dakota -- Ohio -- Oklahoma -- Oregon -- Pennsylvania -- Rhode Island -- South Carolina -- South Dakota -- Tennessee -- Texas -- Utah -- Vermont -- Virginia -- Washington -- West Virginia -- Wisconsin -- Wyoming -- Overview of current environmental issues, Canada -- Alberta -- British Columbia -- Manitoba -- New Brunswick -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Northwest Territories -- Nova Scotia -- Nunavut -- Ontario -- Prince Edward Island -- Quebec -- Saskatchewan -- Yukon -- Major environmental organizations and advocacy groups
Summary Covers the environmental issues for each U.S. state and Canadian province. Essays include an introduction that describes the geographical and geological features of the state/province, information on how global climate change could affect the state/province and its inhabitants, information on natural resources, energy, Green Economy, Green Jobs, and Green Building, and a special section that covers a major environmental topic in each state/province
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Environmentalism -- Canada -- Encyclopedias
Environmentalism -- United States -- Encyclopedias
Ecology.
Environmentalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SUBJECT Canada -- Environmental conditions -- Encyclopedias
United States -- Environmental conditions -- Encyclopedias
Subject Canada.
United States.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Reference works.
Reference works.
Form Electronic book
Author Antone, Margaret K., editor.
Gall, Susan B., editor.
ISBN 1410338371
1414490895
9781410338372
9781414490892