The Roots of Modern Environmentalism, Pepper David

Автор: Darwin Hamblin Jacob
Название: Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
ISBN: 0190674156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190674151
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Are today`s environmental crises linked to the plans for World War Three? The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend "total war" ideas to the natural environment. This book links environmental warfare to the environmental crises of the 1970s and beyond.

Автор: Hannesson R.
Название: Ecofundamentalism: A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism
ISBN: 1498532284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498532280
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Everyone has heard of environmentalism, but what is it? Is it ideology or religion? Like socialism, environmentalism is a political program, but even more diffuse. Environmentalists hold diverse opinions, from wanting to take care of nature in human interest to putting nature above man. The latter is religious environmentalism, with nature taking the place of the supernatural. This book is a critique of this type of environmentalism, appropriately named ecofundamentalism. This may be a minority or even marginal opinion, but it seems to shape people s thinking to an unwarranted degree. In the worst of cases, it would bring the end of civilization as we know it. Without massive monocultures, supported by pesticides and fertilizer, we could never feed ourselves. Almost 90 percent of our primary energy comes from fossil fuels, without which there would be no air travel, cars and trucks, reliable electricity, and even much of our food supply. Putting a premium on biodiversity and getting serious about greenhouse gas emissions would force us to go without these things, putting us back in the Middle Ages. Fortunately, there is no need to heed any of these environmentalist prescriptions. Contrary to the notion that economic growth is unsustainable and our core problem, it is actually the core solution. Economic growth and technology has made it possible for food production to outpace population growth since the industrial revolution. Economic growth is one reason why population growth worldwide has fallen so that the population bomb may never explode. It has also made us largely independent of the weather except for growing our crops. Meanwhile, ecofundamentalism would cause more harm than good."

Автор: Anderson Terry L
Название: Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation
ISBN: 1137448148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137448149
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In 1991, Terry Anderson and Donald Leal set forth a new path for environmentalism - one which stressed how property rights and markets could help overcome policy and legal shortcomings, providing real-world solutions for impending environmental concerns.

Автор: Davide Torsello
Название: The New Environmentalism?: Civil Society and Corruption in the Enlarged EU
ISBN: 1409423646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409423645
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Drawing on rich ethnographic work in both Eastern and Western Europe, this book presents a range of case studies to explore the impact of corruption in EU-funded structural development projects. It is of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists concerned with questions of legitimacy, corruption and activism.

Автор: Thomas Dunlap
Название: Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest
ISBN: 0295995793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295995793
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present. Drawing astonishing parallels between religion and environmentalism, the book examines the passion of the movement’s adherents and enemies alike, its concern with the moral conduct of daily life, and its attempt to answer fundamental questions about the underlying order of the world and of humanity’s place within it.

Thomas Dunlap is among the leading environmental historians and historians of science in the United States. Originally trained as a chemist, he has a rigorous understanding of science and appreciates its vital importance to environmental thought. But he is also a devout Catholic who believes that the insights of religious revelation need not necessarily be at odds with the insights of scientific investigation. This book grew from his own religious journey and his attempts to understand human ethical obligations and spiritual debts to the natural world.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2005

Автор: Jennifer Thomson
Название: The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
ISBN: 1469651645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469651644
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: 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.

Автор: Pepper, David (oxford Brookes University, Uk)
Название: Roots of modern environmentalism
ISBN: 0367409658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367409654
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Originally published in 1984, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical, philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism.

Автор: Burho Jim
Название: Footprints: A Practical Approach to Active Environmentalism
ISBN: 1532078927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532078927
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: The western world has become preoccupied with the concern of global warming, climate change, and pollution which threaten life on Earth as we know it. The finger of blame is pointed at an ever-increasing population that is "addicted to oil" and emitting greenhouse gases at a rate that will send global warming past the tipping point. However when discussion ensues on the subject, deep divisions become quite apparent among the different viewpoints on this issue; all claiming to have the "science" to support their position. As a result, politics has become a major influence in how the science of global warming is interpreted. The goal of this book is to take politics out of the debate and present objectively just the science so the reader can have a broader and more balanced view of the issue than what he/she hears from politicians, colleagues, and the news media.

Автор: Timothy Neale
Название: Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia
ISBN: 0824881524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824881528
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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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: Porter
Название: Native American Environmentalism
ISBN: 0803248350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803248359
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Countering the inclination to associate indigenous peoples with "wilderness" or to conflate everything "Indian" with a vague sense of the ecological, this book shows how Indian communities were forced to migrate to make way for the nation`s "wilderness" parks in the nineteenth century.

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.