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Science 6 June 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5625, pp. 1510 - 1511
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079920
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Essays on Science and Society

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ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Fighting for Thirlmere--The Roots of Environmentalism

Harriet Ritvo

The seeds of environmental activism sprouted during the 19th century in the highly scenic Lake District of northwest England. Here, tensions were played out between the need for new freshwater supplies for the growing industrial metropolis of Manchester and the desire of the Lake District inhabitants and landowners not to have their romantic landscape despoiled.

The author is in the Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: hnritvo{at}mit.edu

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