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Adam's Bridge
Adam's Bridge or Rama's Bridge , chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, SW Palk Strait , between India and island nation of Sri Lanka. At high tide it is covered by c.4 ft (1.2 m) of water, forcing oceangoing vessels to travel around Sri Lanka instead of through the Palk Strait. According to Hi... Read more
Lake Eyre
Lake Eyre shallow salt lake, 3,430 sq mi (8,884 sq km), central South Australia state, Australia; largest lake in Australia. The lake, 39 ft (12 m) below sea level, is the continent's lowest point. Located in the arid interior of Australia, the lake is frequently dry. During the winter rainy season... Read more
Jesse Louis Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson 1941-, African-American political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary (1963-65) and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. Active in the civil-rights movement, he became a close ass... Read more
Mojave Desert
Mojave Desert c.15,000 sq mi (38,850 sq km), region of low, barren mountains and flat valleys, 2,000 to 5,000 ft (610-1,524 m) high, S Calif.; part of the Great Basin of the United States. It is bordered on the N and W by the Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi, San Gabriel, and San Bernardino mts. and... Read more
swamp
swamp shallow body of water in a low-lying, poorly drained depression, usually containing abundant plant growth dominated by trees, such as cypress, and high shrubs. Swamps develop in moist climates, generally in such places as low-lying coastal plains, floodplains of rivers, and old lake basins or... Read more
wetlands
wetlands low-lying ecosystem where the water table is always at or near the surface. It is divided into estuarine and freshwater systems, which may be further subdivided by soil type and plant life into bogs , swamps , and marshes. Because wetlands have poor drainage, the area is characterized ... Read more
reclamation of land
reclamation of land practice of converting land deemed unproductive into arable land by such methods as irrigation , drainage , flood control, altering the texture and mineral and organic content of soil (see fertilizer ), and checking erosion . In the United States, all these methods have been... Read more
forestry
forestry the management of forest lands for wood , water, wildlife, forage, and recreation. Because the major economic importance of the forest lies in wood and wood products, forestry has been chiefly concerned with timber management, especially reforestation, maintenance of the extant forest sta... Read more
environmentalism
environmentalism movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources , prevention of pollution , and control of land use . The philosophical foundations for environmentalism in the United States were established by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerso... Read more
land use
land use exploitation of land for agricultural, industrial, residential, recreational, or other purposes. Because the United States historically has a laissez-faire attitude toward land use, the land has been exploited at will for economic gain. Only in recent decades have Americans realized that l... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Environmentalist"

Carol M. Browner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...criticism and accolades from environmentalists, agriculturalists, and...While the outcome pleased environmentalists, it infuriated the sugar...played into her strong environmentalist attitudes. Growing up...one of a new breed of environmentalists because she believes that...
James Rodney Schlesinger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...opposed its further development. Environmentalists — Friends or Foes? Another...military bases despite the pleas of environmentalists, especially bird-watchers, who...evoking a flood of verbal abuse from environmentalists and powerful politicians. Speaking...
Lumbering
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...previously largely a custodial agency, and to clashes with environmentalists, who extolled the noncommodity values of forests. Partly...and most timber was on private land more insulated from environmentalist pressure. Declining per capita lumber consumption and...
Alaskan Pipeline, Building of
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...transaction ignored their ownership of the land. Sympathetic environmentalists, fearing destruction of the land's natural landscape...on the development of the oil-rich land. Native and environmentalist concerns about the use of the land resulted in several...
Environmental Ethics
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...often center around economic issues. For example, environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest want to protect the habitat of...x201C;important” than the needs of people. Environmentalists, on the other hand, believe that both are important...
Environmentalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...and author Rachel Carson was a key figure in the early environmentalist movement: Her groundbreaking 1962 book Silent Spring alerted...1990s, and all were born out of the tremendously effective environmentalist movement. After the regulations went into effect, the...
SIC 4489 Water Transportation of Passengers, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...including relatives of victims. Conversely, the battle between environmentalists and airboat operators in Florida has been heating up. According to the environmentalists, airboats have contributed greatly to increased ecological pressure...
forestry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...stripped of all trees, leaving an unsightly bald area. Environmentalists claim that clearcut areas are liable to insect infestation...neighboring streams and spoils fish spawning grounds. Environmentalists have also decried the ecologically disruptive effects...
Petra Kelly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...work in the "umbrella" organization of the environmentalist movement, the Bund B ü rgerinitiativen...was founded in 1972. Between 1976 and 1979 environmentalist initiatives scored successfully in communal...
Dixy Lee Ray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...power facilities and often found herself at odds with environmentalists. Convinced that nuclear power could be made absolutely...huge oil tankers be allowed to dock in Puget Sound led environmentalists to call her Ms. Plutonium and to sport "Nix on Dixy...

Dictionary entries related to "Environmentalist"

environmentalist
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology environmentalist 1. One who holds that damage to the natural environment resulting directly from human activity is so severe as to present a challenge...
Environmental Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...quality of life could not be satisfied by the free market, environmentalists turned toward political action as the means to protect...protecting specially designated nonresidential areas, environmentalists shifted attention to the effects of the environment on...
behaviourism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...controversy about both the effectiveness and the ethics of all these techniques. Behaviourism represents an extreme environmentalist position as regards the question of what guides human actions. According to behaviourists, all behaviour is learned...
Greenpeace
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...violently for conservation of the environment and the preservation of endangered species. The name is said to have been coined when the Canadian environmentalist Bill Darnell said, ‘Make it a green peace.’
exponential
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology ...cent of 110), 132.1 (121 + 10 per cent of 121),…). Fears have been expressed (e.g. by some environmentalists) that the size of the human population may increase exponentially and the demands such growth imposes on essential...
nature and nurture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology ...affect a character. Both may affect observed variation among individuals; only variations due to ‘nature’ are inherited, and it is these that form the subject of quantitative genetics. See environmentalist .
Democratic Party, USA
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Clinton administration were dogged by controversy in part because Clinton owed political debts to homosexuals, environmentalists, labour unions, women, and ethnic minorities. Nevertheless, Clinton managed to capture the allegiance of the...
devout
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...devout Catholic a rabbi's devout prayers. ∎  totally committed to a cause or belief: the most devout environmentalist. DERIVATIVES: de·vout·ly adv. de·vout·ness n.
join
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...different color. ∎  [ intr. ] unite to form one entity or group: they joined up with local environmentalists countries join together to abolish restrictions on trade. ∎  become a member or employee of...
postulate
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...reasoning, discussion, or belief: his theory postulated a rotatory movement for hurricanes | he postulated that the environmentalists might have a case. 2. (in ecclesiastical law) nominate or elect (someone) to an ecclesiastical office subject...

Thesaurus entries related to "Environmentalist"

environmentalist
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus environmentalist • noun  environmentalists and industrialists must unite to save the world's forests synonyms : conservationist, preservationist, ecologist, nature lover; informal tree hugger, green, greenie.
unite
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...bond, wed, marry, bring together, knit together, splice. See note at join. antonym: divide.   2. environmentalists and union activists united to demand changes synonyms : join together, join forces, combine, band together...
nimrod
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...Nimrods and anglers believe he's too cozy with groups as varied as ranchers, miners, loggers and even environmentalists.” ( Spokesman-Review [Spokane]; Aug. 5, 1997.) In late-twentieth-century slang, though...
green
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...pallid, ashen, ill, sick, sickly, unhealthy, nauseous.   9. green issues | Green politicians synonyms : environmentalist, conservationist, preservationist; environmentally sound/friendly, ecologically sound.
eager
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...bicycling), while zealous implies the kind of eagerness that pushes all other considerations aside (a zealous environmentalist). Enthusiastic may connote participation rather than expectation: One can be eager to take a trip to Switzerland...
preoccupy
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus preoccupy • verb  the issues that preoccupy environmentalists synonyms : engross, concern, absorb, take up someone's attention, distract, obsess, occupy, prey on someone's mind.

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Who is an Environmentalist? The Polysemy of Environmentalist Terms and Correlated Environmental Actions
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecological Anthropology; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...including their views on environmentalists, their history...identification as an environmentalist, and their environmental...polysemy of the word environmentalist renders it a poor...self-defined environmentalists also reported significantly...multiple meanings of "environmentalist" further ...
Eastern Europe and the Fall of Environmentalists
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 3/6/1994; 700+ words ; ...communist governments. Today, however, environmentalists in Eastern Europe have lost much...Economic problems have overwhelmed the environmentalists' agendas. On a recent trip through...NPR's John Nielsen talked with environmentalists about what happened to their movement...
Toward Unity Among Environmentalists.
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...characterize the unity of environmentalists" (p.12...distinguish "environmentalists" from "developers...qualify as an environmentalist, just as anyone...logical unity environmentalists display by converging...
Environmentalists make little progress in current Congress. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/16/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...s been a bad year for environmentalists in Washington and the...poor Congress from an environmentalist standpoint,'' admits...as obtainable goals of environmentalists in this Congress. None...accomplishes much less than environmentalists had hoped. One example...
STUFF ENVIRONMENTALISTS LIKE
Magazine article from: Plenty; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...things that environmentalists care about most...DINNER If an environmentalist invites you...to children, environmentalists generally have...delivery, find an environmentalist with three or...suggest that an environmentalist commit suicide...mostly because environmentalists have so ...
Schaefer, Environmentalists Are Finding More Common Ground
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/11/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...another leading environmentalist. "I don't get...of a minority of environmentalists, and brought up...record and enraged by environmentalists' praise of Sachs...early as a non-environmentalist by a group that...Since then, environmentalists and the governor...
Environmentalists are new foes of some of the world's poorest.(Commentary/Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 9/23/2006; 700+ words ; ...class Western environmentalists. The discovery...have always been an environmentalist. I want to protect...My admiration for environmentalists started to decline...spoke to the Western environmentalists it quickly emerged...centigrade. One environmentalist (foreign of course...
Environmentalists Push Anti-Human Agenda
Magazine article from: Human Events; 1/29/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...and influential environmentalists oppose DDT because...subtext of the environmentalist one. and it has...replacement level. Yet environmentalists are undeterred...the bottom of the environmentalist agenda. This is...
Is the Unabomber an environmentalist?(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/31/1997; 700+ words ; ...has brought to the environmentalist movement. How unfortunate...not one of us, environmentalists adamantly declare...shopping malls _ the environmentalists consistently oppose...deaths. Mainstream environmentalists proclaim the preservation...seriously. As the noted environmentalist ...
Environmentalists Lose on Energy Bill
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/25/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Senate was where environmentalists hoped to make their stand on energy...appears to be anything but green. Environmentalists lost in their bid to boost automobile...Refuge in Alaska is yet to come, and environmentalists are likely to prevail on it. The...