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9780742546486

Shades of Green Environment Activism Around the Globe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742546486

  • ISBN10:

    0742546489

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-07-24
  • 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 Institute ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(12)
Christof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, and Douglas R. Weiner
1 Challenging Modernity: The Origins of Postwar Environmental Protest in the United States 13(28)
Frank Zelko
2 Protecting Nature and Practicing Democracy in West Germany: A Case Study from the Black Forest 41(28)
Sandra Lynn Chaney
3 From "Land" to "Place": Landscape Conservation and Environmental Activism in the Magaliesberg, South Africa, and Cooper's Creek, Australia 69(32)
Jane Carruthers
4 Environmental Activism in the Soviet Context: A Social Analysis 101(34)
Douglas R. Weiner
5 Sprouts of Environmentalism in China? Government-Organized NGOs and Green Organizations in Disguise 135(26)
Peter Ho
6 Battles for Nature: Contesting Wildlife Conservation in Twentieth-Century India 161(22)
Mahesh Rangarajan
7 Forest Struggles and Forest Policy: Villagers' Environmental Activism in Mexico 183(14)
Daniel J. Klooster
8 Placing Local Environmental Protest within Global Environmental Networks: Colonist Farmers and Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon 197(22)
J. Christopher Brown
Index 219(8)
About the Contributors and Editors 227

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