'Conservation is now a dead world': Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the transformation of American environmentalism

Environmental History

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-76

  Davis, Jack E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTALISM; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 0037243621     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3985972     Document Type: Article

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