Review of The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West, by Anna Bramwell
Malcolm Chase reviews the sequel to Anna Bramwell’s Ecology in the 20th Century: A History.
Malcolm Chase reviews the sequel to Anna Bramwell’s Ecology in the 20th Century: A History.
The article analyses the trajectory of a group of Brazilian intellectuals from 1786 to 1810, who inaugurated a systematic critique of the environmental damage caused by colonial economy in Brazil, especially forest destruction and soil erosion.
The counter-hegemonic struggle for ecological democracy is one of the fastest growing social movements in contemporary society, and requires the attention of environmental historians to situate it within the broader context of the history of environmentalism.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
It is widely assumed that modern environmentalist thinking was imported into post-communist states such as the Czech Republic post 1989. This paper shows these countries had environmental traditions of their own.
This study is an overview of the state-led development projects and local efforts to ‘improve’ local conditions on the Zoige grass and wetlands on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau since 1949 and their impact on the regional ecological and social environment. It focuses on historical state-led development projects, as well as more recent efforts to raise environmental awareness of the importance of Chinese wetlands.
This paper explores the social and political factors that historically limited the national nature conservation movement’s influence in Japan, and outlines recent developments which may lead to both a greater emphasis on the greater participation of non-governmental organisations in the political process, and a greater emphasis on the protection of the natural environment.
An essay review of books by Arun Agrawal, Peder Anker, David Arnold, Gregory A. Barton, Richard Drayton, and S. Ravi. Rajan.
The aim of the paper is to understand our predecessors’ understanding of their environmental predicament and any contingent steps they may have taken, in order to put in context the contingencies of our own understanding.