A Force for Nature
Subtitle: The Story of NRDC and Its Fight to Save Our Planet
By: John H. Adams & Patricia Adams with George Black
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780811865357
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Environmental law, united states; Lawyers, biography; Environmentalism
Table of contents: label: Foreword by Robert Redford
pagenum: 7; label: Preface and Acknowledgements
pagenum: 9; label: First Decade
title: 1970-1980; label: Chapter 1.
title: Gathering Forces
pagenum: 12; label: Chapter 2.
title: Here to Stay
pagenum: 31; label: Chapter 3.
title: As We Live and Breathe
pagenum: 44; label: Chapter 5.
title: Does a Tree Have Standing?
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter 6.
title: This Land is Our Land
pagenum: 73; label: Second Decade
title: 1980-1990; label: Chapter 7.
title: The Dark Ages (and How We Survived Them)
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter 8.
title: A Terrible Power
pagenum: 100; label: Chapter 9.
title: Going Underground
pagenum: 109; label: Chapter 10.
title: The Poisoned Chalice
pagenum: 124; label: Chapter 11.
title: An Apple a Day
pagenum: 138; label: Third Decade
title: 1990-2000; label: Chapter 12.
title: Uptown, Downtown, All Around the Town
pagenum: 148; label: Chapter 13.
title: Smoke Alarm
pagenum: 165; label: Chapter 14.
title: Our Toxic Legacy
pagenum: 184; label: Chapter 15.
title: Contract on America
pagenum: 197; label: Chapter 16.
title: The Last Wilderness
pagenum: 217; label: Chapter 17.
title: Land of the Spirit Bear
pagenum: 231; label: Fourth Decade
title: 2000-2010; label: Chapter 18.
title: One Gem at a Time
pagenum: 248; label: Chapter 19.
title: Water, Water Everywhere
pagenum: 269; label: Chapter 20.
title: The Rule of Law
pagenum: 287; label: Chapter 21.
title: We're Having a Heat Wave
pagenum: 301; label: Chapter 22.
title: California Dreaming
pagenum: 317; label: Chapter 23.
title: The China Syndrome
pagenum: 335; label: Chapter 24.
title: A New Energy Economy
pagenum: 350; label: Epilogue
title: Back to the Future
pagenum: 370; label: Time Line of NRDC and the Modern Environmental Movement
pagenum: 378; label: Index
pagenum: 387