Earth's Emergency Room - Lowell E Baier

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Résumé :
In Earth's Emergency Room, author, attorney, and environmental historian Lowell E. Baier celebrates 50 years of the landmark Endangered Species Act of 1973, a bipartisan law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon. Baier provides an insightful and entertaining history of the ESA's dramatic highs and lows. His own work with the ESA from its inception to the present, and with the key figures who shaped its history, from field biologists to Presidents of the United States, give the book a unique, human element. He looks back at a lifetime of environmental advocacy and tackles one of today's leading challenges: the unprecedented decline in species due to climate change. Drawing from his extensive experience as a negotiator and activist, Baier argues that the ESA is flexible enough to ameliorate the biodiversity crisis while still respecting landowners, states, and industries. He ultimately calls on all Americans to embrace a spirit of bipartisanship and conservation to strengthen the law that has been Earth's emergency room for half a century....

Biographie:
Lowell E. Baier is an attorney and a legal and environmental historian and author. Baier holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University, a J.D. from Indiana University and has received two honorary doctorates. He's worked in Washington, D.C. throughout his 56-year career as a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife conservation. Throughout his career, he has observed and documented wildlife and its habitats on extensive treks and expeditions in the mountains and wilderness regions across the North American Continent, the Pamirs and Caucasus of Russia, and Mongolia's Gobi Desert and Altai Mountains, providing him with first hand observations of wildlife and man's interactions across the globe. He was recognized as the Conservationist of the Year by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2008, and again in 2010 and 2013 by two different national organizations....

Sommaire:

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Early Controversies

Chapter 2: The Command-and-Control Generation and the Green Revolution

Chapter 3: Beyond the 100th Meridian

Chapter 4: Babbitt's Jujitsu

Chapter 5: The Far Left's Listing Wars

Chapter 6: The Apex Predator Problem

Chapter 7: The Price Tag for the Endangered Species Act

Chapter 8: Securing Our Future - Funding Wildlife Conservation

Chapter 9: Making Conservation Strategies Flexible

Chapter 10: Partnerships: The Secret to Success

Chapter 11: America Rallies Again - The Promise of the Future

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Endangered Species Act Timeline

Appendix B: Federal Environmental and Consumer Protection Statutes and Agencies Established during the 1960s and 1970s Green Revolution

Bibliography

Index

Biography of Lowell E. Baier