Books on the Environment
Rainforests of the World (Second Edition)
by Kathlyn Gay
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0-87436-712-3
"This well organized handbook opens with an overview of
rainforests of the world, making the important point that temperate
as well as tropical rainforests are both necessary and endangered.
...a fine reference source for basic information."
--Voice of Youth Advocates "An outstanding first choice for term papers or topical
research."--C&RL News
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--------------------------------------------------------Saving the Environment, Debating the Costs
by Kathlyn Gay
Publisher: Franklin Watts/Grolier
ISBN: 0-531-11263-2
The timber and logging industry is a source of many jobs
in the American Northwest.
Environmentalists warn, however, that the great forests
of the Northwest are in danger of extinction
as the industry cuts down the trees,
which are essential to life on the planet.
Environmental groups want excessive timber cutting outlawed.
Executives of the timber business counter that such prohibitions will
destroy countless numbers of jobs that are essential
to the economic life of the region.
This is a typical situation in the conflict of the economy
versus the environment--one that is raging in the halls of the U.S. Congress and in
the national press.
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--------------------------------------------------------Pollution and the Powerless:
The Environmental Justice Movement
by Kathlyn Gay
Publisher: Franklin Watts/Grolier
ISBN: 0-531-11190-3
Along the Mississippi river there is a stretch of land
called "Cancer Alley" because it is the site of hundreds
of petrochemical plants that give off carcinogenic emissions.
Most of the people living in the surrounding towns are poor and black.
On the Navajo Reservation lands in Utah and Nevada,
radioactive materials in waste dumps of nuclear reactors
re responsible for the high incidence of birth defects
and cancer among the Navajo population.
These are but two examples of environmental racism,
extensively documented in this book, that subjects
the poor and powerless to pollution hazardous to their health.
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--------------------------------------------------------Cleaning Nature Naturally
by Kathlyn Gay
Publisher: Walker and Company
ISBN: 0-8027-8118-7
"A detailed report on how beneficial insects and microorganisms,
together with careful cultivation, can reduce the use of chemical
pesticides....This impressively researched book doesn't advocate
the elimination of chemicals, but does make the case that productivity
could be maintained or even increased with far lower concentrations.
which would also provide a healthier environment.
Gay touches on a wide range of subjects...
all in carefully balanced perspective."--Kirkus Reviews
"Both adult and young adult readers should find this an exceptional title,
as few other books focus on the topic of ecological methods
of cleaning the environment. Pioneers of pest and waste control are
featured in an exploration which shows how scientists and consumers
are utilizing natural, non-damaging products to clean the
environment..."--Children's Bookwatch
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