Shades of Green: Environmental Activism Around the GlobeChristof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, Douglas R. Weiner Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - 228 páginas Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term 'environmentalism' covers an entire range of perceptions, values and interests. It demonstrates that each instance of environmental activism is shaped by historically unique circumstances, highlighting within each chapter the ideological, social, and political origins of efforts to protect the environment. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities. |
Conteúdo
Challenging Modernity The Origins of Postwar Environmental Protest in the United States Frank Zelko | 13 |
Protecting Nature and Practicing Democracy in West Germany A Case Study from the Black Forest Sandra Lynn Chaney | 41 |
From Land to Place Landscape Conservation and Environmental Activism in the Magaliesberg South Africa and Coopers Creek Australia Jane Carrut... | 69 |
Environmental Activism in the Soviet Context A Social Analysis Douglas R Weiner | 101 |
Sprouts of Environmentalism in China? GovernmentOrganized NGOs and Green Organizations in Disguise Peter Ho | 135 |
Battles for Nature Contesting Wildlife Conservation in TwentiethCentury India Mahesh Rangarajan | 161 |
Forest Struggles and Forest Policy Villagers Environmental Activism in Mexico Daniel J Klooster | 183 |
Placing Local Environmental Protest within Global Environmental Networks Colonist Farmers and Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon... | 197 |
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About the Contributors and Editors | 227 |
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Página 12 - I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Referências a este livro
Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale Michael K. Goodman,Max Boykoff,Kyle Evered Visualização parcial - 2008 |