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Author Henshaw, Robert E

Title Environmental History of the Hudso
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2011

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Contents ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY of the HUDSON RIVER -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED -- PART I. HISTORY AND BIOLOGY -- 1. HISTORICAL FACTS/BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS -- 2. LINKAGES BETWEEN PEOPLE AND ECOSYSTEMS -- 3. SYMBIOSES BETWEEN BIOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS -- PART II. RIVER OF RESOURCES -- 4. HUDSON RIVER FISHERIES -- 5. HERPETOFAUNA OF THE HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED -- 6. HUMAN IMPACTS ON HUDSON RIVER MORPHOLOGY AND SEDIMENTS
7. THE EARLIEST THIRTEEN MILLENNIA OF CULTURALADAPTATION ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY8. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDICES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND COLONIAL ETHNOBOTANY INSEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH NEW AMSTERDAM -- 9. LINKING UPLANDS TO THE HUDSON RIVER -- 10. VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN THE NORTHERN SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS -- 11. AGRICULTURE IN THE HUDSON BASIN SINCE 1609 -- 12. ECOLOGY IN THE FIELD OF TIME -- 13. THE INTRODUCTION AND NATURALIZATION OF EXOTIC ORNAMENTAL PLANTS IN NEW YORK� SHUDSON RIVER VALLEY -- PART III. RIVER OF COMMERCE
14. THE RISE AND DEMISE OF THE HUDSON RIVERICE HARVESTING INDUSTRY15. HUMAN SANITARY WASTES AND WASTE TREATMENT IN NEW YORK CITY -- 16. FOUNDRY COVE -- 17. RIVER CITY -- 18. OUT OF THE FRAY -- PART IV. RIVER OF INSPIRATION -- 19. BIRTH OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY -- 20. THE INFLUENCE OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOLOF ART IN THE PRESERVATION OF THE RIVER, ITS NATURAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW -- 21. “THY FATE AND MINE ARE NOT REPOSE� -- 22. THE PAST AS GUIDE TO A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE -- AFTERWORD
Contributorsweb addresses of cited and key agencies, not-for-profit organizations, andacademic institutions in the hudson river basin -- index -- a -- b -- c -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z
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Subject Human ecology -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History
Natural history -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Environmentalism -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History
Ecology
Environmentalism
Human ecology
Natural history
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
SUBJECT Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions
Subject United States -- Hudson River
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Dunwell, Frances F
ISBN 9781438440286
1438440286