[PDF] Paving Paradise eBook

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813037433

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Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential pledges to protect them. How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and negligence on the part of federal and state agencies that led to a failure to enforce regulations on developers. They traveled throughout the state, interviewed hundreds of people, dug through thousands of documents, and analyzed satellite imagery to identify former wetlands that were now houses, stores, and parking lots. Exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction.

Author : Deborah McLaren
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1565491696

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* Exceptional overview of the tourism industry worldwide * Case studies of indigenous people’s responses to tourism development * Detailed listing of tourism and ecotourism resources This is a fully revised and comprehensive overview of the history and global development of tourism--one of the largest industries in the world. Despite promising great benefits to hosts and guests alike, tourism often results in some very stark and painful consequences for local host communities and the environment. The second edition provides updated information on global tourism and examines how local communities in different parts of the world, especially indigenous peoples, have responded to the challenges and opportunities of tourism and ecotravel.

Author : Richard Conlon
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 9780435045944

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A group of students have one week to prepare an environmental project; but what format will it take? Sasha hits upon the idea of creating myths that will pass on an ecological message and as each student comes up with a story, the group acts it out. Villages terrorised by monsters, households terrified by wild animals and a species that is draining the world of other life - the myths all revolve around the theme of natural balance and fragility.

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2010-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813047072

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The quiet manatee has long been a flash point of frequent environmental debates. It is Florida's most famous endangered species, as well as its most controversial. Manatees appear on hundreds of license plates, attract hordes of tourists, and expose the uneasy relationships between science and the law and between freedom and responsibility like no other animal.  As passions have flared and resentments have grown, the battle over manatee protection has evolved into a war, and no reporter has followed the story more closely than Craig Pittman, the first environmental writer to explore the complex history, culture, and science of the controversies and concerns surrounding this remarkable creature.  With an abiding interest in the uncertain fate of this unique species, Manatee Insanity provides the first in-depth history of the attempts to provide legal protection for the manatee. Pittman follows Florida’s gentle giants through time and space, detailing interactions with a variety of human actors, from Jacques-Yves Cousteau to Jeb Bush to Jimmy Buffett, from a popular children's book author to a federal lawman who dressed in a gorilla suit for the ultimate undercover assignment.

Author : Bruce Ferguson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1420038435

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Pavements are the most ubiquitous of all man-made structures, and they have an enormous impact on environmental quality. They are responsible for hydrocarbon pollutants, excess runoff, groundwater decline and the resulting local water shortages, temperature increases in the urban "heat island," and for the ability of trees to extend their roots in

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1250071208

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A fun- and fact-filled investigation into why the Sunshine State is the weirdest but also the most influential state in the Union.

Author : Jessica Marten
Publisher : RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781939125736

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The first monograph on the work of a groundbreaking artist in stained glass.

Author : J. Harris Anderson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9780991164578

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The forces of conservation and development clash amidst family in Virginia's Crutchfield County where foxhunting traditions govern the pace and rhythms of rural life.

Author : Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0822395940

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In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawai`i and the Philippines, U.S. military modes of mobility, control, and surveillance enable scenic tourist byways. Past and present U.S. military posts, such as the Clark and Subic Bases and the Pearl Harbor complex, have been reincarnated as destinations for tourists interested in World War II. The history of the U.S. military is foundational to tourist itineraries and imaginations in such sites. At the same time, U.S. military dominance is reinforced by the logics and practices of mobility and consumption underlying modern tourism. Working in tandem, militarism and tourism produce gendered structures of feeling and formations of knowledge. These become routinized into everyday life in Hawai`i and the Philippines, inculcating U.S. imperialism in the Pacific.

Author : Cathy Salustri
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813064604

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In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project paid Stetson Kennedy and Zora Neale Hurston, along with other lesser-known writers, to create driving tours of Florida. The FWP and the State of Florida jointly published the results as Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State. In Backroads of Paradise, Cathy Salustri retraces the routes these writers traveled, bringing a modern eye to the historic tours.