Edited by Eric J. Evans and Ruth Henig The Making of the Contemporary World series provides challenging interpretations of contemporary issues and debates within strongly defined historical frameworks. The range of the series is global, ...
In this short guide, Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism.
Providing a historical overview of the development of attitudes to nature and the environment in society, the book examines key environmentalist ideas, influences and movements.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.
This book provides a much-needed clarification and expansion of the goals of the environmental movement.
See Charlene Spretnak , The Resurgence of the Real ( New York : Routledge , 1999 ) , 45 . 2. See , for example , Stephen Moore , “ The Coming Age of Abundance , " in The True State of the Planet , ed . Ronald Bailey ( New York : Free ...
The journalist who broke the stories on the Dalkon shield and Ford Pinto offers a critique of the mainstream American environmental movement, from its conservationist origins to the advent of the "fourth wave" of today's environmentalists.
of the year . Little wonder , for 20 million gallons of treated sewage were reaching the lake daily . ... all campaigning for the establishment of a “ metro government ” whose first mission would be to clean up the lake .
... Legislative Environmental Impact Statement (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1986). 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. See Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, The Birth of a Transfer Society (Stanford, Calif.
The concluding chapter is a criticism of education which challenges its usefulness as an agent of socio-economic change. This book will be of interest to academics and students of environmentalism and geography.