Shades of Green Environment Activism Around the Globe

by Mauch, Christof; Stoltzfus, Nathan; Weiner, Douglas R.; Zelko, Frank; Ranagarjan, Mahesh; Chaney, Sandra Lynn; Carruthers, Jane; Ho, Peter; Klooster, Daniel J.; Brown, J. Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780742546479
• ISBN10: 0742546470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Challenging Modernity: The Origins of Postwar Environmental Protest in the United States	p. 13
Protecting Nature and Practicing Democracy in West Germany: A Case Study from the Black Forest	p. 41
From "Land" to "Place": Landscape Conservation and Environmental Activism in the Magaliesberg, South Africa, and Cooper's Creek, Australia	p. 69
Environmental Activism in the Soviet Context: A Social Analysis	p. 101
Sprouts of Environmentalism in China? Government-Organized NGOs and Green Organizations in Disguise	p. 135
Battles for Nature: Contesting Wildlife Conservation in Twentieth-Century India	p. 161
Forest Struggles and Forest Policy: Villagers' Environmental Activism in Mexico	p. 183
Placing Local Environmental Protest within Global Environmental Networks: Colonist Farmers and Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon	p. 197
Index	p. 219
About the Contributors and Editors	p. 227
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