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Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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1962年、レイチェル・カーソンは著書『沈黙の春』で「人間の活動が原因で、自然環境は危険なほど悪化している」と警鐘を鳴らしました。それ以来、環境の保全は社会の大きな関心事となっています。米国では環境に関する法律が整備され、商業活動が環境に与える影響に対してはますます厳しくなり、環境保全は国際的に注目されるべきグローバルな課題として認識されるようになりました。地球は温暖化し、水の供給は危機に瀕し、生態系はストレスにさらされ、生物種はかつてないほどのスピードで失われているのです。
本書では、環境保全の起源と発展に関する背景、環境保護の主な要素について具体例を挙げて紹介し、現在の問題を理解するための背景、重要な用語の定義、科学、法律、経済の裏付け、ナノ汚染から気候変動まで、現在議論されている問題を考察します。生物多様性、温室効果、フュージティブ・エミッション(大気中へのガスや蒸気の排出物漏洩)、藻類の繁殖などの現象について、また大気浄化法、絶滅危惧種法、京都議定書、パリ協定などの画期的な政策イニシアティブの影響について学ぶことができます。私たちに関わりの深い、この複雑なテーマを理解するのに役立つ、わかりやすい情報を提供しています。
   

  • Explains scientific, legal, and economic aspects of environmental protection through concrete examples and provocative reflections
  • Discusses highly-debated current issues such as the Flint, Michigan drinking water crisis, nanopollution, climate change, and environmental justice
  • Includes perspectives and examples from both the United States and the international community

 
Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority.
   
In Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®, environmental lawyer Pamela Hill offers clear, engaging answers to some of the most pressing questions facing us today. She discusses the science behind current environmental issues, defining key terms such as ecosystems, pollutants, and endocrine disruptors. Hill explains why our environment needs protection, using examples from history and current events, from the Irish potato famine to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. She also assesses the effectiveness of landmark laws and treaties, including the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Kyoto Protocol. 
    
To what extent is it acceptable to rank human interests over ecological interests? And is it fair to ask developing countries to reduce emissions, even though they bear little responsibility for our current environmental problems? Hill identifies the greatest environmental threats we are facing today and suggests what we need to do as citizens, businesspeople, and lawmakers to protect the environment for each other and for future generations.

目次: 

Preface
1. Environmental Protection: An Introduction 
2. Pollution 
3. Environmental Laws 
4. Environmental Protection and the Global Community
5. Water 
6. Air 
7. Ecosystems 
8. Climate Change 
9. Waste 
10. The Built Environment 
11. Environmental Justice 
12. Environmental Protection and the Economy 
13. The Future 
Further Reading
Online resources

著者について: 

Pamela Hill, an environmental lawyer, is former Deputy Regional Counsel at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Regional Office. She is a lecturer in environmental law at Boston University School of Law.

"Pam Hill is one of the most talented and thoughtful environmental lawyers in the country. She is also a great communicator who is able to take complicated ideas and break them down for common understanding. For years, she helped shape policy and law at the United States Environmental Protection Agency and is now, through this important new contribution, shaping and refocusing our understanding of our relationship, and responsibility, to the world around us." -- Scott Fulton, president of the Environmental Law Institute and former USEPA General Counsel

商品情報

ISBN : 9780190223076

著者: 
Pamela Hill
ページ
256 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
140 x 210 mm
刊行日
2017年04月
シリーズ
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Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®