The Earth Charter
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.
This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
An account of post-World War II conflicts, prompted by the arrival of two major timber companies in Earth’s largest coastal temperate rainforest: Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska.