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9780742546479

Shades of Green Environment Activism Around the Globe

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    9780742546479

  • ISBN10:

    0742546470

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-21
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.

Table of Contents

The German Historical Institutep. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Challenging Modernity: The Origins of Postwar Environmental Protest in the United Statesp. 13
Protecting Nature and Practicing Democracy in West Germany: A Case Study from the Black Forestp. 41
From "Land" to "Place": Landscape Conservation and Environmental Activism in the Magaliesberg, South Africa, and Cooper's Creek, Australiap. 69
Environmental Activism in the Soviet Context: A Social Analysisp. 101
Sprouts of Environmentalism in China? Government-Organized NGOs and Green Organizations in Disguisep. 135
Battles for Nature: Contesting Wildlife Conservation in Twentieth-Century Indiap. 161
Forest Struggles and Forest Policy: Villagers' Environmental Activism in Mexicop. 183
Placing Local Environmental Protest within Global Environmental Networks: Colonist Farmers and Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazonp. 197
Indexp. 219
About the Contributors and Editorsp. 227
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