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The Earth Charter
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.
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Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
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Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860–2000
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
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A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
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Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
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.
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The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
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Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
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National Parks: Rights and the Common Good
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
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The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
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Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation
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.