The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities
The Culture of German Environmentalism portrays the breadth of environmentalism in Germany through an analysis of the Green Party, its “green” literature, media, and politics.
The Culture of German Environmentalism portrays the breadth of environmentalism in Germany through an analysis of the Green Party, its “green” literature, media, and politics.
Through examining topics of nuclear energy and tourism, Zivilgesellschaft und Protest portrays the transitions towards radicalism in the Bavarian environmental movement from the end of the Second World War to the late 1970s.
Frank Zelko’s study of Greenpeace is the first detailed study of the group’s history, from it’s origins as a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists to the influential organization it is today.
Gay Hawkins puts the ethical significance of waste in everyday life into historical, social, and cultural perspective, seeking to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.
This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of major Canadian environmental debates between the 1960s and 1980s, and examines a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investments and experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasing attention to urban pollution and pesticide use.
This collection brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle, while others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces.
This book reveals how IUCN experts struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
Full text of Claire Lagier’s dissertation, “Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology within and beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).”
Excerpt from The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934.
Excerpt from Mark R. Stoll’s Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism.