Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
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.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
Taking a historical, cross-cultural, and trans-disciplinary perspective, this e-book includes some of the most recent references in the scholarly and policy literature on food, agriculture, environment, and livelihoods. The photos and the embedded video clips, animations, and audio recordings show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fishers, food workers, urban farmers, and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, highlighting the importance of locally controlled food systems to sustain people and nature in a diversity of rural and urban contexts.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
This book documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns.
The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.