Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Biennial Research Report
Author: Biennial Report of the National Institutes of Health
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Biennial Science and Technology Report to the Congress
Author: United States. Office of Science and Technology PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to research
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
IARC Biennial Report 1986-1987
Author: International Agency for Research on CancerPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9789283210870
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A Thousand Ways Denied
Author: John T. ArnoldPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174416
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the hill country in the north to the marshy lowlands in the south, Louisiana and its citizens have long enjoyed the hard-earned fruits of the oil and gas industry’s labor. Economic prosperity flowed from pioneering exploration as the industry heralded engineering achievements and innovative production technologies. Those successes, however, often came at the expense of other natural resources, leading to contamination and degradation of land and water. In A Thousand Ways Denied, John T. Arnold documents the oil industry’s sharp interface with Louisiana’s environment. Drawing on government, corporate, and personal files, many previously untapped, he traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with battles over regulation. Arnold reveals that in the early twentieth century, Louisiana helped lead the nation in conservation policy, instituting some of the first programs to sustain its vast wealth of natural resources. But with the proliferation of oil output, government agencies splintered between those promoting production and others committed to preventing pollution. As oil’s economic and political strength grew, regulations commonly went unobserved and unenforced. Over the decades, oil, saltwater, and chemicals flowed across the ground, through natural drainages, and down waterways. Fish and wildlife fled their habitats, and drinking-water supplies were ruined. In the wetlands, drilling facilities sat like factories in the midst of a maze of interconnected canals dredged to support exploration, manufacture, and transportation of oil and gas. In later years, debates raged over the contribution of these activities to coastal land loss. Oil is an inseparable part of Louisiana’s culture and politics, Arnold asserts, but the state’s original vision for safeguarding its natural resources has become compromised. He urges a return to those foundational conservation principles. Otherwise, Louisiana risks the loss of viable uses of its land and, in some places, its very way of life.
Current Serials Received
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description