Research Catalog

Title

Shades of green : environmental activism around the globe / edited by Christof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, and Douglas R. Weiner.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Mauch, Christof.
• Stoltzfus, Nathan.
• Weiner, Douglas R., 1951-

Description

xi, 228 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

International environmental history

Uniform Title

International environmental history.

Subjects

• Environmentalism > History
• Green movement > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Challenging modernity : the origins of postwar environmental protest in the United States / Frank Zelko -- 2. Protecting nature and practicing democracy in West Germany : a case study from the Black Forest / Sandra Lynn Chaney -- 3. From "land" to "place" : landscape conservation and environmental activism in the Magaliesberg, South Africa, and Cooper's Creek, Australia / Jane Carruthers -- 4. Environmental activism in the Soviet context : a social analysis / Douglas R. Weiner -- 5. Sprouts of environmentalism in China? : government-organized NGOs and green organizations in disguise / Peter Ho -- 6. Battles for nature : contesting wildlife conservation in twentieth-century India / Mahesh Rangarajan -- 7. Forest struggles and forest policy : villagers' environmental activism in Mexico / Daniel J. Klooster -- 8. Placing local environmental protest within global environmental networks : colonist farmers and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon / J. Christopher Brown.

ISBN

• 0742546470 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0742546489 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006007203
• 9780742546479
• 9780742546486

OCLC

• OCM64486875
• SCSB-5267389

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries