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Author |
: Douglas Bevington |
Publisher |
: Island Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2012-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610911443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161091144X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rebirth of Environmentalism by : Douglas Bevington
Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations have achieved remarkable success in protecting endangered species and forests in the United States. The Rebirth of Environmentalism tells for the first time the story of these grassroots biodiversity groups. Filled with inspiring stories of activists, groups, and campaigns that most readers will not have encountered before, The Rebirth of Environmentalism explores how grassroots biodiversity groups have had such a big impact despite their scant resources, and presents valuable lessons that can help the environmental movement as a whole—as well as other social movements—become more effective.
Author |
: Andrew Revkin |
Publisher |
: Plume |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0452274052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780452274051 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Burning Season by : Andrew Revkin
Chico Mendes--a name synonymous with the battle to save the rain forest--was a Brazilian rubber tapper and homegrown environmentalist who was killed in December 1988 by ranchers intent on ravaging the jungle for short-term gain. Now an award-winning journalist has written a deeply affecting book about the life and death of this courageous, passionate man. Two 8-page photo inserts.
Author |
: Jonathan Isham |
Publisher |
: Island Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2012-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781597267656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1597267651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ignition by : Jonathan Isham
The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even way of life is dire. So why isn’t America doing anything? Where is the national campaign to stop this catastrophe? It may lie between the covers of this book. Ignition brings together some of the world’s finest thinkers and advocates to jump start the ultimate green revolution. Including celebrated writers like Bill McKibben and renowned scholars like Gus Speth, as well as young activists, the authors draw on direct experience in grassroots organization, education, law, and social leadership. Their approaches are various, from building coalitions to win political battles to rallying shareholders to change corporate behavior. But they share a belief that private fears about deadly heat waves and disastrous hurricanes can translate into powerful public action. For anyone who feels compelled to do more than change their light bulbs or occasionally carpool, Ignition is an essential guide. Combining incisive essays with success stories and web resources, the book helps readers answer the most important question we all face: “What can I do?”
Author |
: Pierre Charbonnier |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509543731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509543732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Affluence and Freedom by : Pierre Charbonnier
In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change. This timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.
Author |
: Steven F. Bernstein |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231120362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231120364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism by : Steven F. Bernstein
Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimi's investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war. Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women. This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.
Author |
: Finis Dunaway |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2015-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226169903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226169901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeing Green by : Finis Dunaway
"Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship, " telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over" -- Publisher information.
Author |
: Nicolai N. Petro |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674750012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674750012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rebirth of Russian Democracy by : Nicolai N. Petro
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author |
: Roger S. Gottlieb |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 783 |
Release |
: 2003-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136915390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136915397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Sacred Earth by : Roger S. Gottlieb
Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.
Author |
: John A. Hannigan |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415112540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415112543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Sociology by : John A. Hannigan
John Hannigan argues that society's unwillingness to recognize and solve environmental problems rests primarily upon the claims making activities of a number of 'issue entrepreneurs' in science, mass media and politics.
Author |
: Nicole Detraz |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2016-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509511969 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509511962 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender and the Environment by : Nicole Detraz
Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of women. Despite these important links, to date very little consideration has been given to the role of gender in global environmental politics and policy-making. This timely and insightful book explains why gender matters to the environment. In it, Nicole Detraz examines contemporary debates around population, consumption, and security to show how gender can help us to better understand environmental issues and to develop policies to tackle them effectively and justly. Our society often has different expectations of men and women, and these expectations influence the realm of environmental politics. Drawing on examples of various environmental concerns from countries around the world, Gender and the Environment makes the case that it is only by adopting a more inclusive focus that embraces the complex ways men and women interact with ecosystems that we can move towards enhanced sustainability and greater environmental justice on a global scale. This much-needed book is an invaluable guide for those interested in environmental politics and gender studies, and sets the agenda for future scholarship and advocacy.