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Book Review
| New Jersey's Environment: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Neil M. Maher. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006. vi + 212 pp. Includes illustrations, notes, tables, maps, and index. Paper $21.95.
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| With its prodigiously urban-industrial landscape, New Jersey has much to recommend it as a topic for environmental historians. And because so many other states have been following a similar path of overdevelopment, New Jersey's historical trajectory offers valuable lessons for policy makers, scientists, and activists seeking to establish a viable relationship between densely populated areas and the natural world. Indeed, Neil Maher has assembled this compelling set of essays with the intention of reaching just such a diverse audience. |
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