Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. The Hudson River Watershed xxi
7. History And Biology
8. Historical Facts/Biological Questions 3
9. Linkages Between People and Ecosystems 7
10. Symbioses Between Biologists and Social Scientists 13
11. River of Resources
12. Hudson River Fisheries 27
13. Herpetofauna of the Hudson River Watershed 41
14. Human Impacts on Hudson River Morphology and Sediments 53
15. The Earliest Thirteen Millennia of Cultural Adaptation Along the Hudson River Estuary 65
16. Archaeological Indices of Environmental Change and Colonial Ethnobotany in Seventeenth-Century Dutch New Amsterdam 77
17. Linking Uplands to the Hudson River 123
18. Vegetation Dynamics in the Northern Shawangunk Mountains 135
19. Agriculture in the Hudson Basin Since 1609 153
20. Ecology in the Field of Time 165
21. The Introduction and Naturalization of Exotic Ornamental Plants in New York’ s Hudson River Valley 183
22. River of Commerce
23. The Rise and Demise of the Hudson River Ice Harvesting Industry 201
24. Human Sanitary Wastes and Waste Treatment in New York City 219
25. Foundry Cove 233
26. River City 247
27. Out of the Fray 261
28. River of Inspiration
29. Birth of the Environmental Movement in the Hudson River Valley 279
30. The Influence of the Hudson River School of Art in the Preservation of the River, Its Natural and Cultural Landscape, and the Evolution of Environmental Law 291
31. “Thy Fate and Mine are not Repose” 313
32. The Past as Guide to a Successful Future 325
33. Afterword 335
34. Contributors 337
35. Web Addresses of Cited and Key Agencies, Not-For-Profit Organizations, And Academic Institutions in the Hudson River Basin 341
36. Index 343