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"Pioneer ecologist and conservationist, Sir Frank Fraser Darling spent many years surveying the wildlife resources of Africa. Now published for the first time, his journals vividly describe the safaris he made by foot, air and motor in Zambia, Kenya and the Sudan in the late 1950s and early 1960s." "It provides a valuable and spectacular record, not only of the now depleted wildlife stocks of the region but also of the tribal people of the period to present a unique and sensitive insight into the environmental issues of the time, and the thoughts and motivations of Fraser Darling, the father of the modern conservation movement. A must for anyone interested in ecology, natural history and travel."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
“A solid overview of both Caldwell’s contributions and the development of the environmental movement in the US . . . . Recommended.” —Choice This is the story of a visionary leader, Lynton Keith Caldwell, who in the early 1960s introduced the study of the environment and environmental policy at a time when such areas of expertise did not exist. Caldwell was a principal architect of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and is recognized as the “inventor” of the Act’s important environmental impact statement provisions, now emulated around the world. For the next three decades, Caldwell played a leading role in establishing ethics-based environmental policy and administr...
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
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