9780684839080 - The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right von Cronin, John (15 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Signed by Cronin and Kennedy.

Zustand: Aceptable. : En este libro, John Cronin y Robert F. Kennedy Jr. narran su lucha como activistas para proteger el río Hudson. Describen sus confrontaciones con empresas contaminantes y agencias gubernamentales, y cómo lograron defender el derecho básico a un medio ambiente limpio. A través de historias impactantes, los autores nos muestran la importancia de la participación ciudadana en la protección de nuestros recursos naturales y nos inspiran a tomar acción para preservar nuestro entorno. EAN: 9780684839080 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: The Riverkeepers Autor: John Cronin| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Editorial: Scribner Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa dura.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Signed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with inscription.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 302, [2] pages. Appendix. Index. DJ slightly soiled. Foreword by Al Gore. Inscribed by the co-author (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.). Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental lawyer, activist, and author. Kennedy is a son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former president John F. Kennedy. He is the president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999. From 1986 until 2017, Kennedy was a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit environmental organization. From 1984 until 2017, he was a board member and chief prosecuting attorney for Hudson Riverkeeper. For over thirty years, Kennedy has been an adjunct professor of Environmental law at Pace University School of Law. Until August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School's Environmental Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987. He is currently professor emeritus at Pace. Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers. Once an inspiration to writers and artists and a rich source of livelihood for fishermen, the Hudson River by the 1960's had been transformed by pollution from a national treasure into a national joke. Here two leaders of the successful Hudson Riverkeeper organization recount the investigations, the court battles, and the ultimate triumph in reclaiming the most basic human right of all--the right to a safe environment. A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how we too can fight for our fundamental right to enjoy our invaluable natural resources. Revealing shocking stories of commonplace environmental crime -- from drinking water tainted with hospital waste to fish populations contaminated by freely dumped PCBs -- Cronin and Kennedy describe their dramatic confrontations with more than ninety environmental lawbreakers. The Riverkeepers is a timely call to action that will resonate across America as the backlash spearheaded by congressional leaders and their major corporate allies threatens to reverse the hard-won victories in environmental law and policy. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two leaders of the Hudson Riverkeeper organization, a New York-based environmental advocacy group, recount their legal and public-relations battles against the polluters of one of America's famed waterways. Cronin, a former Hudson River commercial fisherman, and Kennedy, one of the new generation of that storied family, are, respectively, head and chief prosecuting attorney of the Hudson Riverkeeper group. The Hudson River, which had inspired artists and environmentalists such as Thomas Cole, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Burroughs, had become so polluted by the 1960s that swimming in its waters was forbidden. Cronin and Kennedy trace the grass-roots environmental activism that culminated in the formation of their organization in 1983. Since then, the group has filed close to 100 lawsuits, reportedly induced polluters to pay close to half a billion dollars to help restore the river, achieved a landmark agreement to protect New York City's water supply, and spawned a number of similar groups. The authors depict their enemies as numerous, well funded, and unscrupulous-including corporations such as Exxon and General Electric, as well as the `most antienvironmental Congress in the nation's history.' Despite their rhetoric, the authors outline three important ways to counter stereotypes about environmental elitism. First, they advocate acting locally. Second, they urge that environmentalism not be seen as anti-growth, but as a way to preserve a decades-old industry (fishing) and prevent long-term community.

Hardcover. Zustand: very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. First Printing. 302 pages, appendix, index, slight creasing to DJ edges. Foreword by Al Gore. Inscribed and signed by both co-authors (John Cronin & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.). Once an inspiration to writers and artists and a rich source of livelihood for fishermen, the Hudson River by the 1960's had been transformed by pollution from a national treasure into a national joke. Here two leaders of the successful Hudson Riverkeeper organization recount the investigations, the court battles, and the ultimate triumph in reclaiming the most basic human right of all--the right to a safe environment.