The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health, Jennifer Thomson

Автор: Jennifer Thomson
Название: The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
ISBN: 1469651998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469651996
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.

Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present, including the environmental lobby, environmental justice groups, radical environmentalism and bioregionalism, and climate justice activism. By focusing on health, environmentalists were empowered to intervene in the rise of neoliberalism, the erosion of the regulatory state, and the decimation of mass-based progressive politics, but, as this book reveals, an individualist definition of health ultimately won out over more communal understandings. Considering this turn from collective solidarity toward individual health helps explain the near paralysis of collective action in the face of planetary disaster.

Автор: Timothy Neale
Название: Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia
ISBN: 0824873114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824873110
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Описание: Since the nineteenth-century expeditions, Northern Australia has been both a fascination and concern to the administrators of settler governance in Australia. Neighboring Southeast Asia and Melanesia, its expansive and relatively undeveloped tropical savanna lands are alternately framed as a market opportunity, an ecological prize, a threat to national sovereignty, and a social welfare problem. Over the last several decades, while developers have eagerly promoted the mineral and agricultural potential of its monsoonal catchments, conservationists speak of these same sites as rare biodiverse habitats, and settler governments focus on the “social dysfunction” of its Indigenous communities. Meanwhile, across the north, Indigenous people themselves have sought to wrest greater equity in the management of their lives and the use of their country. In Wild Articulations, Neale examines environmentalism, indigeneity, and development in Northern Australia through the recent controversy surrounding the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld) in Cape York Peninsula, an event that drew together a diverse cast of actors—including traditional owners, prime ministers, politicians, environmentalists, mining companies, the late Steve Irwin, crocodiles, and river systems—to contest the future of the north. With a population of fewer than 18,000 people spread over a landmass of over 50,000 square miles, Cape York Peninsula remains a “frontier” in many senses. Long constructed as a wild space—whether as terra nullius, a zone of legal exception, or a biodiverse wilderness region in need of conservation—Australia’s north has seen two fundamental political changes over the past two decades. The first is the legal recognition of Indigenous land rights, reaching over a majority of its area. The second is that the region has been the center of national debates regarding the market integration and social normalization of Indigenous people, attracting the attention of federal and state governments and becoming a site for intensive neoliberal reforms. Drawing connections with other settler colonial nations such as Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand, Wild Articulations examines how indigenous lands continue to be imagined and governed as “wild.”

Автор: Timothy Neale
Название: Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia
ISBN: 0824881524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824881528
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Описание: Beginning with the nineteenth-century expeditions, Northern Australia has been both a fascination and concern to the administrators of settler governance in Australia. With Southeast Asia and Melanesia as neighbors, the region's expansive and relatively undeveloped tropical savanna lands are alternately framed as a market opportunity, an ecological prize, a threat to national sovereignty, and a social welfare problem. Over the last several decades, while developers have eagerly promoted the mineral and agricultural potential of its monsoonal catchments, conservationists speak of these same sites as rare biodiverse habitats, and settler governments focus on the “social dysfunction” of its Indigenous communities. Meanwhile, across the north, Indigenous people have sought to wrest greater equity in the management of their lives and the use of their country. In Wild Articulations , Timothy Neale examines environmentalism, indigeneity, and development in Northern Australia through the controversy surrounding the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld) in Cape York Peninsula, an event that drew together a diverse cast of actors—traditional owners, prime ministers, politicians, environmentalists, mining companies, the late Steve Irwin, crocodiles, and river systems—to contest the future of the north. With a population of fewer than 18,000 people spread over a landmass of over 50,000 square miles, Cape York Peninsula remains a “frontier” in many senses. Long constructed as a wild space—whether as terra nullius, a zone of legal exception, or a biodiverse wilderness region in need of conservation—Australia’s north has seen two fundamental political changes over the past two decades. The first is the legal recognition of Indigenous land rights, reaching over a majority of its area. The second is that the region has been the center of national debates regarding the market integration and social normalization of Indigenous people, attracting the attention of federal and state governments and becoming a site for intensive neoliberal reforms. Drawing connections with other settler colonial nations such as Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand, Wild Articulations examines how indigenous lands continue to be imagined and governed as “wild.”

Автор: Robertson Thomas
Название: The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism
ISBN: 0813552729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813552729
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Описание: <p>Although Rachel Carson's <em>Silent Spring</em> (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in <em>The Malthusian Moment</em> Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II—everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home. </p> <p>Weaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, <em>The Malthusian Moment</em> charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970s. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement's most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the civil rights and women's movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the ""New Right."" </p>

Автор: DeVries Scott M.
Название: A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature
ISBN: 1611485150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611485158
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Описание: This book traces the development of ecology and environmentalism in Spanish American literature. It provides a historical and literary context for the recent and expanding interest in reading, analyzing and especially teaching Latin America`s environmental literature.

Автор: David Schuyler
Название: Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
ISBN: 1501718053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501718052
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In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern environmentalism in the United States.

Writing fifty-five years after Consolidated Edison announced plans to construct a pumped storage power plant at Storm King Mountain, Schuyler recounts how a loose coalition of activists took on corporate capitalism and defended the river. As Schuyler shows, the environmental victories on the Hudson had broad impact. In the state at the heart of the story, the immediate result was the creation in 1970 of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to monitor, investigate, and litigate cases of pollution. At the national level, the environmental ferment in the Hudson Valley that Schuyler so richly describes contributed directly to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, and the creation of the Superfund in 1980 to fund the cleanup of toxic-dumping sites.

With these legal and regulatory means, the contest between environmental advocates and corporate power has continued well into the twenty-first century. Indeed, as Embattled River shows, the past is prologue. The struggle to control the uses and maintain the ecological health of the Hudson River persists and the stories of the pioneering advocates told by Schuyler provide lessons, reminders, and inspiration for today's activists.

Автор: DeVries Scott M.
Название: A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature
ISBN: 1611486904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611486902
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Описание: This book traces the development of ecology and environmentalism in Spanish American literature. It provides a historical and literary context for the recent and expanding interest in reading, analyzing and especially teaching Latin America`s environmental literature.

Автор: Ritvo Harriet
Название: The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
ISBN: 0226720861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226720869
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Located in the heart of England`s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. This title re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to supply the needs of a growing urban population.

Автор: Anderson
Название: Free Market Environmentalism
ISBN: 031223502X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312235024
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The original edition of this seminal book, published in 1991, introduced the concept of using markets and property rights to protect and improve environmental quality. and the Oregon Water Trust uses water markets to purchase or lease water for salmon and steelhead habitats.

Название: Environmentalism in turkey
ISBN: 0754644472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754644477
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between environmental protection and economic development in Turkey. Above all, it evaluates the role played by environmental movements in the democratization process of Turkey.

Автор: Blanchard Kathryn D., O`Brien Kevin J.
Название: An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics
ISBN: 148130173X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781481301732
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Описание: Examines seven contemporary environmental challenges through the lens of classical Christian virtues. Authors Kathryn Blanchard and Kevin O`Brien use these classical Christian virtues to seek a "golden mean" between extreme positions by pairing each virtue with a pernicious environmental problem.

Автор: Wapner Paul Kevin
Название: Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
ISBN: 0262014157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262014151
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: The Future of American Environmentalism. How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.