Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 Book

Preface; Introduction: Environmental Politics - the New and the Old;

1. From conservation to environment;
2. Variation and pattern in the environmental impulse;
3. The urban environment;
4. The nation's wildlands;
5. The countryside: A land rediscovered, yet threatened;
6. The toxic environment;
7. Population, resources, and the limits to growth;
8. Environmental inquiry and ideas;
9. The environmental opposition;
10. The politics of science;
11. The politics of economic analysis and planning;
12. The middle ground: Management of environmental restraint;
13. Environmental politics in the States;
14. The politics of legislation, administration, and litigation;
15. The Reagan antienvironmental revolution;
16. Environmental society and environmental politics; Notes; Index.