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Taking sides : clashing views on environmental issues / by Thomas A. Easton [editor].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Taking sidesPublication details: [Boston] : McGraw-Hill Education Create, [2014], c2014.Edition: Sixteenth editionDescription: iv, 272 pages ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781259161131
  • 1259161137
Other title:
  • Clashing views on environmental issues
  • Environmental issues
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE170 T13 2014
Contents:
Do we need the precautionary principle? -- Are there limits to growth? -- Should we be pricing ecosystem services? -- Does designating "wild lands" harm rural economies? -- Does excessive endangered species act litigation threaten species recovery, job creation and economic growth? -- Can "green" marketing claims be believed? -- Do we need research guidelines for geoengineering? -- Should we continue to rely on fossil fuels? -- Is shale gas the solution to our energy woes? -- Is renewable energy green? -- Are biofuels a reasonable substitute for fossil fuels? -- Is hydropower a sound choice for renewable energy? -- Do we have a population problem? -- Does commercial fishing have a future? -- Does the world need high-tech agriculture? -- Should society impose a moratorium on the use and release of "synthetic biology" organisms? -- Is bisphenol A a potentially serious health threat? -- Should agricultural animal wastes be exempt from the requirements of superfund legislation -- Should the United States reprocess spent nuclear fuel?
List(s) this item appears in: Print Books 2021
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Books Books Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section Non-fiction RUS GE170 T13 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Room use only 76679 00076663

Includes bibliographical references.

Do we need the precautionary principle? -- Are there limits to growth? -- Should we be pricing ecosystem services? -- Does designating "wild lands" harm rural economies? -- Does excessive endangered species act litigation threaten species recovery, job creation and economic growth? -- Can "green" marketing claims be believed? -- Do we need research guidelines for geoengineering? -- Should we continue to rely on fossil fuels? -- Is shale gas the solution to our energy woes? -- Is renewable energy green? -- Are biofuels a reasonable substitute for fossil fuels? -- Is hydropower a sound choice for renewable energy? -- Do we have a population problem? -- Does commercial fishing have a future? -- Does the world need high-tech agriculture? -- Should society impose a moratorium on the use and release of "synthetic biology" organisms? -- Is bisphenol A a potentially serious health threat? -- Should agricultural animal wastes be exempt from the requirements of superfund legislation -- Should the United States reprocess spent nuclear fuel?

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