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| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Movements Christopher Rootes, 2014-06-23 Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements Maria Grasso, Marco Giugni, 2022-01-31 This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world, macrostructural conditions and processes underlying their mobilization, the microstructural and social-psychological dimensions of environmental movements and activism, and current trends, as well as prospects for environmental movements and social change. The handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understanding of environmental movements and activism. It encourages dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between social movement studies and other perspectives and reflects upon the causes and consequences of citizens’ participation in environmental movements and activities. The volume brings historical studies of environmentalism, sociological analyses of the social composition of participants in and sympathizers of environmental movements, investigations by political scientists on the conditions and processes underlying environmental movements and activism, and other disciplinary inquiries together, while keeping a clear focus within social movement theory and research as the main lines of inquiry. The handbook is an essential guide and reference point not only for researchers but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Justice and Environmentalism Ronald Sandler, Ronald D. Sandler, Ronald L. Sandler, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, 2007 In ten essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider such topics as the relationship between the two movements' ethical commitments and activist goals, instances of successful cooperation in U.S. contexts, and the challenges posed to both movements by globalisation and climate change. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Movements around the World Timothy Doyle, Sherilyn MacGregor, 2013-12-09 An unprecedented study of environmentalism, environmental movements, and efforts at greening across the globe, written by culturally embedded scholars with both academic expertise and first-hand experience with grassroots advocacy-- |
| environmental movements in the world: Ecological Resistance Movements Bron Raymond Taylor, 1995-01-01 Ecological resistance movements are proliferating around the world. Some are explicitly radical in their ideas and militant in their tactics while others have emerged from a variety of social movements that, in response to environmental deterioration, have taken up ecological sustainability as a central objective. This book brings together a team of international scholars to examine contemporary movements of ecological resistance. The first four sections focus on the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe, and the book concludes with a selection of articles that address the philosophical and moral issues these movements pose, assess trends found among them, and evaluate their impacts and prospects. [Among the many contributors to the volume are Daniel Deudney, Robert Edwards, Heidi Hadsell, Sheldon Kamieniecki, Lois Lorentzen, David Rothenberg, Wolfgang Rudig, Jerry Stark, Paul Wapner, and Ben Wisner.] |
| environmental movements in the world: The Right to Nature Elia Apostolopoulou, Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez, 2019 The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Genius of Earth Day Adam Rome, 2013-04-16 The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political life. But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day 1970 helped to build a lasting eco-infrastructure—lobbying organizations, environmental beats at newspapers, environmental-studies programs, ecology sections in bookstores, community ecology centers. In The Genius of Earth Day, the prizewinning historian Adam Rome offers a compelling account of the rise of the environmental movement. Drawing on his experience as a journalist as well as his expertise as a scholar, he explains why the first Earth Day was so powerful, bringing one of the greatest political events of the twentieth century to life. |
| environmental movements in the world: Resisting Global Toxics David Naguib Pellow, 2007-08-10 Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them. Every year, nations and corporations in the “global North” produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material—inked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage—is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and charts the emergence of transnational environmental justice movements to challenge and reverse it. Pellow argues that waste dumping across national boundaries from rich to poor communities is a form of transnational environmental inequality that reflects North/South divisions in a globalized world, and that it must be theorized in the context of race, class, nation, and environment. Building on environmental justice studies, environmental sociology, social movement theory, and race theory, and drawing on his own research, interviews, and participant observations, Pellow investigates the phenomenon of global environmental inequality and considers the work of activists, organizations, and networks resisting it. He traces the transnational waste trade from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present day, examining global garbage dumping, the toxic pesticides that are the legacy of the Green Revolution in agriculture, and today's scourge of dumping and remanufacturing high tech and electronics products. The rise of the transnational environmental movements described in Resisting Global Toxics charts a pragmatic path toward environmental justice, human rights, and sustainability. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmentalism Ramachandra Guha, 2014-10-10 An acclaimed historian of the environment, Ramachandra Guha in this book draws on many years of research in three continents. He details the major trends, ideas, campaigns and thinkers within the environmental movement worldwide. Among the thinkers he profiles are John Muir, Mahatma Gandhi, Rachel Carson, and Octavia Hill; among the movements, the Chipko Andolan and the German Greens. Environmentalism: A Global History documents the flow of ideas across cultures, the ways in which the environmental movement in one country has been invigorated or transformed by infusions from outside. It interprets the different directions taken by different national traditions, and also explains why in certain contexts (such as the former Socialist Bloc) the green movement is marked only by its absence. Massive in scope but pointed in analysis, written with passion and verve, this book presents a comprehensive account of a significant social movement of our times, and will be of wide interest both within and outside the academy. For this new edition, the author has added a fresh prologue linking the book’s themes to ongoing debates on climate change and the environmental impacts of global economic development. |
| environmental movements in the world: Local Environmental Movements Pradyumna Karan, 2010-09-12 Increasing evidence of the irreparable damage humans have inflicted on the planet has caused many to adopt a defeatist attitude toward the future of the global environment. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan analyzes how local groups in both Japan and the United States refuse to surrender the Earth to a depleted and polluted fate. Drawing on numerous case studies, scholars from around the world discuss efforts by grassroots organizations and movements to protect the environment and to preserve the landscapes they love and depend upon. The authors examine citizen campaigns protesting nuclear radiation and chemical weapons disposal. Other groups have organized to protect farmlands and urban landscapes to groups that organize to preserve steams, wildlife habitats, tidal flats, coral reefs, National Parks, and biodiversity. These small groups of determined citizens are occasionally successful, demonstrating the power of democracy against seemingly insurmountable odds. In other cases, the groups failed to bring about the desired change. This book explores the distinctive leaders, the relevant laws and regulations, local politics, and the historical and cultural contexts that influenced the goals and successes of the various groups. The contributors conclude that there is no one single environmental movement but many, and the volume emphasizes grassroots movements and advocacy groups that represent local constituencies. By studying these groups and their respective challenges, Local Environmental Movements highlights the common themes as well as the distinctive features of environmental advocates in the United States and Japan. Over decades, these groups’ have nurtured environmental awareness and promoted the concept of sustainable development that respects the need for both environmental protection and cultural preservation. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Movements in Asia Arne Kalland, Gerard Persoon, 2013-10-31 This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies. Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than idealistic reasons. Such can be seen in case studies from the volume dealing with campaigns against logging and tree plantations, tourist facilities and factories and in support or defence of nature reserves. This pattern is in marked contrast to the profile of the most successful Western movements (in terms of fund-raising at least) for whom the focus is on perceived problems in distant parts of the world. The second point is evidence in several of the case studies in the volume, namely that environmental campaigns cannot be understood in terms of environmental issues alone. Rather, they should be regarded as a form of cultural critique and frequently are a form of political resistance in situations where open political action is too risky. |
| environmental movements in the world: Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 2002 The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Ecocentrists Keith Makoto Woodhouse, 2018-06-05 Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the premises of liberal humanism, they subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Although critics dismissed them as marginal, radicals posed a vital question that mainstream groups too often ignored: Is environmentalism a matter of common sense or a fundamental critique of the modern world? In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Woodhouse explores how radical environmentalism responded to both postwar affluence and a growing sense of physical limits. While radicals challenged the material and philosophical basis of industrial civilization, they glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s different relationships to the nonhuman world. Woodhouse discusses how such views increasingly set Earth First! at odds with movements focused on social justice and examines the implications of ecocentrism’s sweeping critique of human society for the future of environmental protection. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States, The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought. |
| environmental movements in the world: Varieties of Environmentalism Ramachandra Guha, Joan Martínez Alier, 2013-10-11 Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive preserve of the affluent westerner: the ultimate luxury of the consumer society. Citizens of the world's poorest countries, ran the conventional wisdom, had nothing to gain from environmental concerns; they were 'too poor to be green', and were attending to the more urgent business of survival. Yet strong environmental movements have sprung up over recent decades in some of the poorest countries in Asia and Latin America, albeit with origins and forms of expression quite distinct from their western counterparts. In Varieties of Environmentalism, Guha and Matinez-Alier seek to articulate the values and orientation of the environmentalism of the poor, and to explore the conflicting priorities of South and North that were so dramatically highlighted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Essays on the 'ecology of affluence' are also included, placing ion context such uniquely western phenomena as the 'cult of wilderness' and the environmental justice movement. Using a combination of archival and field data,. The book presents analyses of environmental conflicts and ideologies in four continents: North and South America, Asia and Europe. The authors present the nature and history of environmental movements in quite a new light, one which clarifies the issues and the processes behind them. They also provide reappraisals for three seminal figures, Gandhi, Georgescu-Roegen and Mumford, whose legacy may yet contribute to a greater cross-cultural understanding within the environmental movements. |
| environmental movements in the world: Nature and the Iron Curtain Astrid Kirchhof, J. R. McNeill, 2019-06-05 In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book explores similarities and differences among several nations with different economies and political systems, and highlights connections between environmental movements in Eastern and Western Europe. |
| environmental movements in the world: The World We Need Audrea Lim, 2021-05-04 The inspiring people and grassroots organizations that are on the front lines of the battle to save the planet As the world's scientists have come together and declared a climate emergency, the fight to protect our planet's ecological resources and the people that depend on them is more urgent than ever. But the real battles for our future are taking place far from the headlines and international conferences, in mostly forgotten American communities where the brutal realities of industrial pollution and environmental degradation have long been playing out. The World We Need provides a vivid introduction to America's largely unsung grassroots environmental groups—often led by activists of color and the poor—valiantly fighting back in America's so-called sacrifice zones against industries poisoning our skies and waterways and heating our planet. Through original reporting, profiles, artwork, and interviews, we learn how these activist groups, almost always working on shoestring budgets, are devising creative new tactics; building sustainable projects to transform local economies; and organizing people long overlooked by the environmental movement—changing its face along the way. Capturing the riveting stories and hard-won strategies from a broad cross section of pivotal environmental actions—from Standing Rock to Puerto Rico—The World We Need offers a powerful new model for the larger environmental movement, and inspiration for concerned citizens everywhere. |
| environmental movements in the world: Labor and the Environmental Movement Brian K. Obach, 2004-02-20 Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked together on a number of issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental restoration, and globalization (as in the surprising solidarity of Teamsters and Turtles in the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle). Labor and the Environmental Movement examines why, when, and how labor unions and environmental organizations either cooperate or come into conflict. By exploring the interorganizational dynamics that are crucial to cooperative efforts and presenting detailed studies of labor-environmental group coalition building from around the country (examining in detail examples from Maine, New Jersey, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin), it provides insight into how these movements can be brought together to promote a just and sustainable society. Obach gives a brief history of relations between organized labor and environmental groups in the United States, explores how organizational learning can increase organizations' ability to work with others, and examines the crucial role played by coalition brokers who maintain links to both movements. He challenges research that attempts to explain inter-movement conflict on the basis of cultural distinctions between blue-collar workers and middle-class environmentalists, providing evidence of legal and structural constraints that better explain the organizational differences class-culture and new-social-movement theorists identify. The final chapter includes a model of the crucial determinants of cooperation and conflict that can serve as the basis for further study of inter-movement relations. |
| environmental movements in the world: Preserving the Nation Thomas R. Wellock, 2007-04-17 This renamed 'environmental' movement focused less on efficient use of resources and more on creating healthy ecosystems and healthy people free of risks from pollution and hazardous wastes. By 1970, environmentalism enjoyed widespread popular support and bipartisan appeal. What all three movements always shared was a common recognition of the limits of America's natural resources and environment, a belief in preserving them for generations to come, and a faith in at least some government environmental action rather than relying purely on private solutions. Not only does the history of these movements bring to light much about the expanding role of government in environmental regulation and the growth of the modern American state, but a look at environmental campaigns over the course of the twentieth century reveals a great deal about the racial, gender, and class divisions at work in the ongoing efforts to preserve the environment. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Population Bomb Paul R. Ehrlich, 1971 |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmentalism Ramachandra Guha, 2000 This text provides a cross-cultural and global survey of environmental thinking and the movements it has spawned. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Movements around the World Timothy Doyle, Sherilyn MacGregor, 2013-12-09 An unprecedented study of environmentalism, environmental movements, and efforts at greening across the globe, written by culturally embedded scholars with both academic expertise and first-hand experience with grassroots advocacy. Protection of our planet, its people, and its natural resources has been a topic of numerous debates in many nations for the past 50 years. Each hemisphere, continent, and country has environmental challenges unique to the region, giving birth to green movements all over the world. Until now, very few resources have compiled the political, scientific, economic, philosophical, and religious viewpoints of these programs in one place. This two-volume work provides a comprehensive collection of the ideas and actions that inform environmentalism, at local, national, and regional levels across the globe. Environmental Movements around the World: Shades of Green in Politics and Culture includes viewpoints from experts in the fields of political science, history, international relations, environmental studies, and sociology that enable readers to compare and contrast different cultures' attitudes and solutions towards environmental issues. Providing both a broad view of international efforts to protect the earth while also spotlighting very specific examples of environmentally motivated strategies, the set explores the political strategies and cultural perspectives behind conservation and environmental activism in countries worldwide. |
| environmental movements in the world: Dumping In Dixie Robert D. Bullard, 2008-03-31 To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity. |
| environmental movements in the world: The environmental turn in postwar Sweden David Larsson Heidenblad, 2021-09-07 The Stockholm Conference of 1972 drew the world’s attention to the global environmental crisis, but for people in Sweden the threat was nothing new. Anyone who read the papers or watched the television news was already familiar with the issues. Five years early, in the summer of 1967, the situation was very different. So what happened in between? This book explores the ‘environmental turn’ that took place in Sweden in the late-1960s. This radical change, the realisation that human beings were in the process of destroying their own environment, had major and far-reaching consequences. What was it that opened people’s eyes to the crisis? When did it happen? Who set the ball rolling? These are some of the questions the book addresses, shedding new light on the history of environmentalism. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Movements of India Krishna Mallick, 2021-07 In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan forest; Narmada, for villagers displaced by a massive dam; and Navdanya, for hundreds of thousands of farmers whose livelihoods were lost to a compact made by the Indian government and neoliberal purveyors of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Relentlessly researched, the book presents these movements in a framework that explores Hindu Vedic wisdom, as well as Development Ethics, Global Environment Ethics, Feminist Care Ethics, and the Capability Approach. At a moment when the climate threatens populations who live closest to nature--and depend upon its fodder for heat, its water for life, and its seeds for food--Mallick shows how nonviolent action can give poor people an effective voice. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmentalism Since 1945 Gary Haq, Alistair Paul, 2013-03 This book provides an introduction to the greening of politics, science, economics and culture in the post-war period. It covers issues such as: the birth of the environmental movement, development of global environmental governance, climate science and the rise of climate scepticism, the Green New Deal and the call for prosperity without growth, greening of mainstream culture and efforts to change attitudes, and behaviour challenges the environmental movement will have to address to continue to be a force change. The author provides a historical perspective for each topic, anchoring them to real events, influential ideas, and prominent figures. |
| environmental movements in the world: Climate Change from the Streets Michael Mendez, 2020-01-07 An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions and relationships—and all the competing interests and power struggles that this implies. Michael Méndez tells a timely story of people, place, and power in the context of climate change and inequality. He explores the perspectives and influence low†‘income people of color bring to their advocacy work on climate change. In California, activist groups have galvanized behind issues such as air pollution, poverty alleviation, and green jobs to advance equitable climate solutions at the local, state, and global levels. Arguing that environmental protection and improving public health are inextricably linked, Mendez contends that we must incorporate local knowledge, culture, and history into policymaking to fully address the global complexities of climate change and the real threats facing our local communities. |
| environmental movements in the world: Environmental Movements in Minority and Majority Worlds Timothy Doyle, 2005 Environmental movements are among the most vibrant, diverse, and powerful social movements occurring today, across all corners of the globe. Drawing on his primary fieldwork in six countries, environmental researcher Timothy Doyle argues that there is, in fact, no one global environmental movement; rather, there are many, and the differences among them far outweigh their similarities. |
| environmental movements in the world: Break Through Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, 2007 Publisher description |
| environmental movements in the world: Nature Protests Edward Snajdr, 2008 In this book, Edward Snajdr demonstrates how concerns about ecology generated a social movement that led to political dialogue about freedom, ethnicity, and power. He connects the role that green dissidents played in communism's collapse with the forces in Slovak society that replaced them. Through ethnographic interviews and archival materials, he explains why Slovakia's ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidly despite the persistence of serious ecological maladies in the region. Synthesizing theory in anthropology and political ecology, he suggests that the fate of environmentalism in Slovakia marks the beginning of a global post-ecological age, where nature is culturally maginalized in new ways. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Rebirth of Environmentalism Douglas Bevington, 2012-06-22 Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations have achieved remarkable success in protecting endangered species and forests in the United States. The Rebirth of Environmentalism tells for the first time the story of these grassroots biodiversity groups. Filled with inspiring stories of activists, groups, and campaigns that most readers will not have encountered before, The Rebirth of Environmentalism explores how grassroots biodiversity groups have had such a big impact despite their scant resources, and presents valuable lessons that can help the environmental movement as a whole—as well as other social movements—become more effective. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Green Belt Movement Wangari Maathai, 2003 Wangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives. |
| environmental movements in the world: Decolonial Ecology Malcom Ferdinand, 2021-11-11 The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonization and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular. In this important new book, Malcom Ferdinand challenges this double fracture, thinking from the Caribbean world. Here, the slave ship reveals the inequalities that continue during the storm: some are shackled inside the hold and even thrown overboard at the first gusts of wind. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in the Caribbean, Ferdinand conceptualizes a decolonial ecology that holds protecting the environment together with the political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic practices. Facing the storm, this book is an invitation to build a world-ship where humans and non-humans can live together on a bridge of justice and shape a common world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in environmental humanities and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as anyone interested in ecology, slavery, and (de)colonization. |
| environmental movements in the world: Occupy the Earth Liam Leonard, Sya B. Kedzior, 2014-12-03 Concerns about environmental risks have focused the minds of a generation. New movements are emerging to challenge those who would put profits before the planet. This volume represents the cutting edge of international research on global environmental movements and contributes to the on-going debates which may shape our future. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Turning Points of Environmental History Frank Uekötter, 2010-11-21 From the time when humans first learned to harness fire, cultivate crops, and domesticate livestock, they have altered their environment as a means of survival. In the modern era, however, natural resources have been devoured and defiled in the wake of a consumerism that goes beyond mere subsistence. In this volume, an international group of environmental historians documents the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history. John McNeill introduces the collection with an overarching account of the history of human environmental impact. Other contributors explore the use and abuse of the earth's land in the development of agriculture, commercial forestry, and in the battle against desertification in arid and semi-arid regions. Cities, which first appeared some 5,500 years ago, have posed their own unique environmental challenges, including dilemmas of solid waste disposal, sewerage, disease, pollution, and sustainable food and water supplies. The rise of nation-states brought environmental legislation, which often meant selling off natural resources through eminent domain. Perhaps the most damaging environmental event in history resulted from a perfect storm of effects: cheap fossil fuels (especially petroleum) and the rapid rise of personal incomes during the 1950s brought an exponential increase in energy consumption and unforseen levels of greenhouse gasses to the earth's atmosphere. By the 1970s, the deterioration of air, land, and water due to industrialization, population growth, and consumerism led to the birth of the environmental and ecological movements. Overall, the volume points to the ability and responsibility of humans to reverse the course of detrimental trends and to achieve environmental sustainability for existing and future populations. |
| environmental movements in the world: Forcing the Spring Robert Gottlieb, 1993 After considering the historical roots of environmentalism from the 1890s through the 1960s, Gottlieb discusses the rise and consolidation of environmental groups in the years between Earth Day 1970 and Earth Day 1990. A comprehensive analysis of the origins of the environmental movement within the American experience. |
| environmental movements in the world: Working-Class Environmentalism Karen Bell, 2019-12-16 This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability. Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue, and confronts some current practice, policy and research that is preventing the attainment of sustainability and a healthy environment for all. She combines two of the biggest challenges facing humanity: that millions of people around the world still do not have their social and environmental needs met (including healthy food, clean water, affordable energy, clean air); and that the earth’s resources have been over-used or misused. Bell explores various solutions to these social and ecological crises and lays out an agenda for simultaneously achieving greater well-being, equality and sustainability. The result will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and policy-makers working to achieve environmental and social justice, as well as to students and scholars across social policy, sociology, human geography, and environmental studies. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Environmental Moment David Stradling, 1783 The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government documents, the collection describes the period through the perspective of a diversity of participants, including activists, politicians, scientists, and average citizens. Included are the words of Rachel Carson, but also the National Review, Howard Zahniser on wilderness, Nathan Hare on the Black underclass. The chronological arrangement reveals the coincidence of a multitude of issues that rushed into public consciousness during a critical time in American history. |
| environmental movements in the world: To Care for Creation Stephen Ellingson, 2016-08-26 In merely two decades, a small number of resource-poor religious organizations have created a new ethic, and a new set of green religious traditions, with an infrastructure in place to educate and mobilize individuals and organizations. To Care for Creation explains how religious environmentalism has emerged despite various institutional and cultural barriers, and why the new movement organizations follow a logic and set of practices that set them apart from the secular movement. In addition to the new ethic and green religious traditions, Ellingson shows how the movement launches programs to make religious building environmentally, friendly, fight toxic waste and mountain-top removal, protect watersheds, and promote sustainable agriculture. His book research involved him in six dozen interviews with key players in the 70 or so extant religious environmental movement organizations, which are set against secular environmental organizations; the difference is between a message of hope for the religious movement vs. one of doom and gloom for the secular movement. The religious movement is sorely understudied, and it addresses a crucial issue of the dayclimate change. |
| environmental movements in the world: The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani, 2015 The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge. |
| environmental movements in the world: Political Ecology Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad, 2021-02-08 This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at similarities, differences and inter-connections between environmental governance in the global North and South. A wide range of carefully curated case studies are presented, with a particular focus on Africa and Norway. Key themes of power, justice and environmental sustainability run through all chapters. The authors challenge established views and leading discourses and present research findings that may surprise readers. Chapters cover topics including wildlife conservation, climate change and conflicts, land grabbing, the effects of population growth on the environment, jihadism in the African Sahel, bioprospecting, feminist political ecology, and struggles around carbon mitigation within a fossil fuel-based economy. This introductory text provides tools and examples for both undergraduate and postgraduate students to better understand on-going struggles about some of the world’s most urgent challenges. |
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The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements
In the latter half of the 20th Century, the Holy See proactively maintained a congenial relationship with the global environmental movement, frequently speaking at its conferences and meetings, …
The Environmental Movement: Global Issues and the Indian Reality
The environmental movement in India has essentially emerged as a response to a wide spectrum of struggles and conflicts over the use of natural resources and social justice issues or human …
The Messy Challenge of Environmental Justice in the UK: …
paradigm integrating the goals of environmental protection and social justice. EJ is conceptually broad, addressing issues of fair distributions across generations, within the current generation, …
The WORLD BANK eNviRONmeNTAL AND SOciAL FRAmeWORK
overview of the world bank environmental and social framework 1 . The World Bank Environmental and Social F ramework sets out the World Bank’s commitment to sustainable …
Environmental Justice Movements in India: An analysis of the …
Environmental Justice Movements in India: An ... about 12 per cent, roughly similar to the proportion in the world in general, larger than in Europe, lower than in Latin America. Although …
The Environmental Movement - JSTOR
focus: one, World Conservation Strategy, was prepared by the World Wildlife Fund, and the other, The Global 2000 Report to the President, was drawn up by the U.S. Council on Environmental …
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS IN SRI LANKA - ac
Sri Lanka as a third world country carries out a number of development projects catering to the livelihood of people. Those development projects face a variety of ecological limitations due to …
Environmental Movements: An Important Phenomenon. A …
19 Dec 2008 · Environmental movements all over India have grown significantly. There is much writing on the environment movements of the 20th century. In the paper, it is highlighted that …
Environmental justice movements in globalising networks: a …
environmental justice movements and examine them in terms of concrete practices and processes which underlie these struggles (Sikor and Newell 2014). In this article, we examine …
Cover-Environmental social movements in Thailand
The paper classifies environmental social movements into three broad categories of ‘green’ environmental concerns (wildlife, forestry, wilderness, etc.); ‘brown’ issues (industrial and …
Working Title: Youth Movements’ Environmental Discourses - DiVA
other young environmental activists’ activism present as valuable topic for understanding youth environmental movements, the youth movements advocating for environmental causes in the …
The Role of Literary Artists in Environmental Movements: …
The Role of Literary Artists in Environmental Movements: Minamata Disease and Michiko Ishimure Orika Komatsubara Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Abstract ...
A River of Life: Learning and Environmental Social Movements
Interface: a journal for and about social movements Volume 1 (1): 46 - 78 (January 2009) Hall: A river of life 46 A River of Life: Learning and Environmental Social Movements Budd L Hall …
Environmental Movements of India - assets.ctfassets.net
Environmental Movements of India In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward …
Defining Environmental Justice
disconnect between environmental justice on the one hand and ecological justice on the other. The vast majority of work on environmental justice does not concern itself with the natural …
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION …
Environmental movements around the world have been among the first social movements with the so-called “mondial” character. Some environmentalists have even suggested the creation of a …
The Politics of Environmental Movements in Sri Lanka1
The Politics of Environmental Movements in Sri Lanka1 Harini Amarasuriya* T he turbulent period of the 1980s in Sri Lanka is known best for the violence of July 1983 and the bheeshanaya that …
The U.S. Environmental Movement - ResearchGate
an environmental focus, their discursive frames are distinct. When you look at the U.S. environmental movement from this perspective, it is clear that it is comprised of several distinct ...
The Christian and Buddhist Environmental Movements in
The Christian and Buddhist Environmental Movements in Contemporary Korea 57 Hatred and harms committed to other human beings or creatures, or any ... survival of humans …
Environmental movements in a material world. A relational …
of environmental movements in our times. We argue that these are still helpful approaches to understanding the mechanisms of social movements, yet not fully sufficient to explain the …
ROLE OF WOMEN IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION MOVEMENTS …
environmental protection movements such as quarrying mining, forest protection, agriculture and animal husbandry, water conservation upholds the need and importance of environmental …
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA - A HISTORICAL …
Environmental movements in the modern science begin in the west. But over the last two decades, it has spread far and wide even in the so called third world. It has already taken deep …
New Social Movements in India: An Aspect of Environmental Movements …
4) The environmental movements adapted non-violent strategy 5) The movements incorporated hitherto unrepresented sectors of society including adivasies, women and the marginalized. 6) …
The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements - Frontiers
The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements Theodore Lai2 and Cecilia Tortajada1* 1School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2Lee …
SUCCESS STORIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS: AN …
11 Sep 2018 · includes success stories of major environmental movements, such as Chipko, Plachimada, and Green Belt movement,to exemplify local communities as torchbearers of …
Women’s Movements and Environmental Activism in India:
Uncivil City 120). While ³first world environmentalism ignored environmental harms affecting the poorest, the ³environmentalism of the poor is rooted in social movements advocating for …
Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements …
Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice. Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2023. This ground-breaking book makes …
Linking local to global framing Environmental Justice movements …
Keywords: social movements, environmental justice, progressive contextualization, framing alignment, ecological economics, political ecology, ... Indeed, while living movements around …
THE GENESIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
between the living and the non-living world. Environmental movements normally attract participation from all categories of caste, race, and religion. Environmental movements are …
The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements
The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements Theodore Lai2 and Cecilia Tortajada1* 1School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2Lee …
global Environmental movements: From the local to the
environmental movements have excited particular interest and cases which well illustrate some of the most interesting issues in the development of environmental movements:
Social Movements: evolution, definitions, debates and resources
social movements are framed by challenges to definitions of identity and belonging and, therefore, advance a politics of recognition. This is contrasted against social movements active before …
Environment, Islam, and women: a study of eco-feminist environmental ...
environmental behavior in the perspective of eco-feminist environmental activism in Pakistan with the analysis of existing literature, media reports, NGOs’ environmental movements, and the …
Environmental Movements Focused on the Solution of Ecological …
environmental movements in the world, America, France and Germany take place in the first queue. Socialist-minded parties in Germany, Italy, France and England ...
AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CASES OF ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS …
understand the impacts of leadership of women environmental movements. As in many other societies in the world, women have close relations with nature also in Turkey. In addition, they …
Ecological and the Environmental Movement in India
World Bank withdrew from the project. The environmental issue was taken into court. In October 2000, the Supreme Court gave a judgment approving ... environmental movements have taken …
Researching Contemporary Environmental Progressive Social Movements
2. It follows that left progressive environmental movements can be divided into primary (environmental agenda is the original feature) and secondary environmental movements …
Environmental Movements in India
Historical Evolution of Environmental Movement India has the oldest and most diverse environmental movement inAsia It is more deeply rooted and integrated within its host …
Online Media and Environmental Activism: Study of Indian En ...
The World Bank is not a bank that serves the interests of all the world's com- ... The environmental movements in India have always been localised, carried out at the grassroots …
Not So Natural an Alliance? Degrowth and Environmental Justice ...
g Environmental Rights Action | Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Nigeria h World Rainforest Movement, Uruguay ARTICLE INFO Keywords: Degrowth Environmental justice Global South …
Introduction: Environmental justice movements for a post-capitalist world
Part of the Environmental Studies Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Place and Environment Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the Social and Cultural …
Environmental Social Movements - NYU
The last session will look into the role of social environmental movements in the future. The rapidly changing world brings up new challenges but also new opportunities. We will discuss …
An Analysis of New Social Movements in India: An Environmental ...
Numerous contemporary environmental movements have prompted governments to ... the world's attention. iv In the 1970s, it was started by the well-known environmentalist Sunderlal …
The Messy Challenge of Environmental Justice in the UK: …
EJ is distinct from environmental deprivation, the absence of environmental conditions (e.g. clean air, greenspace) conducive to wellbeing, going beyond it to consider how environmental …
GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTALISM AS DISCURSIVE …
The paper locates environmental movements in India at the intersection of economy and culture to argue that the 'empty belly' environmentalism (Guha 2000) in India, imbued as it is with the …
Environmental movements, waste and waste infrastructure: an …
Environmental movements, waste and waste infrastructure: an introduction Christopher Rootes* ... dramatic increase since World War II in the variety, availability and use of synthetic …
Environmental Movements and Their Political Context
Environmental movements are in various ways shaped by their political context, typically conceptualized by scholars as the political opportunity structure (POS). In addition to …
The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements - Frontiers
The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements Theodore Lai2 and Cecilia Tortajada1* 1School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2Lee …
Environmental Social Movements and Social Media By: Jill E.
6 Taylor (2000) proposes an “environmental justice paradigm,” where environmental justice is a social movement master frame, meaning that a group’s “social location” – gender, race and
Mallick, Krishna. Environmental Movements in India: Chipko, …
Environmental movements in India have been studied by a number of scholars, such as Sunderlal Bahuguna, Baba Amte, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Ramachandra Guha, Anil Joshi, Vandana Siva, …
NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS UNIT 13 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS …
MOVEMENTS UNIT 13 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS* Structure 13.0 Objectives 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Environmental Movements in the states 13.2.1 Arunachal Pradesh 13.2.2 …
How Environmental Movements Can Be More Effective: …
which environmental movements can become more effective. Keywords: environmental movements, orphan issues, prioritizing summary symbols, environmental justice, dis- ... has …
