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Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153819144X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism written by Peter Dauvergne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary and Environmentalism, Third Edition provides a balanced and wide-ranging overview of the most important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide. This book is global in scope, covering a large range of perspectives and countries with a focus on the period since 1960. This book contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on organizations, people, issues, events, and countries shaping environmentalism. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about environmentalism.

Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism

Author : Edward Robert Wells
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833319
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism written by Edward Robert Wells and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to capture the people, places, and events which have contributed to the development of environmentalism around the world, attempting to place each term used in the context of a developing movement. Although the focus of this volume is the history of North American environmentalism, entries that are not purely North American in scope have been included because they somehow helped to shape environmentalism on this continent.

Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement

Author : Miranda Schreurs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119609
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement written by Miranda Schreurs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are very serious environmental problems facing the planet. Biodiversity loss has reached unprecedented levels. Climate change is progressing so rapidly that within this century we are likely to see substantial sea level rise. There has been dramatic loss of tropical rainforests. Plastic pollution is killing wildlife and polluting our oceans. Various movements old and new are addressing these green issues. Civil society activism has taken on new strategies with the emergence of new technologies and global networks of green activists have formed. A new generation of green activists are emerging and boldly criticizing the status quo. At the same time, in some parts of the world, green movements that looked like they were beginning to gain a political foothold or were even doing quite well are in retreat. The reasons are complex. Some suffer from lack of funding and hostile political and legal environments. Others are being attacked by populist politicians who see green activism as a threat. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced on green movements, green politics, green trends, and major environmental agreements and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the green movement.

The A to Z of Environmentalism

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870657
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Environmentalism written by Peter Dauvergne and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentalism involves hundreds of international environmental groups, thousands of national groups, and tens of thousands of local ones. It also includes hundreds of international agreements, hundreds of national environmental agencies, and countless environmental sections in other organizations—from those in multinational corporations to ones in regional and international organizations. Such environmental concepts as sustainable development, the precautionary principle, corporate social responsibility, and eco-labeling percolate from all of these sources. Every year, new ideas, refinements, policies, institutions, markets, and problems continue to enter into environmental debates and discourses, making it nearly impossible to keep abreast of the changes constantly taking place. The A to Z of Environmentalism is a paperback edition of the Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism. It strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim of producing an inclusive, wide-ranging, and global history of environmentalism. This goal is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment

Author : Lawrence R. Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538120364
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment written by Lawrence R. Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest emitter of green-house gases since 2007 and top polluter of the increasingly stressed Pacific Ocean, the People’s Republic of China is both a major contributor to environmental degradation and a leading contender to mitigate and stabilize global environmental conditions. Reviewing the history of the PRC from the periods of central economic planning (1953-1978) followed by the single-minded pursuit of economic growth and mass consumption beginning in 1978-1979 to the adoption of a more balanced approach stressing environmental protection and restoration beginning in the 1990s, Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment documents both the enormous damage to the country’s natural environment and the dramatic attempts by the Chinese government and environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs) at environmental amelioration and restoration. Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on environmental degradation including air and water pollution, deforestation, desertification, and resource depletion while efforts at amelioration and restoration include river and waterway clean-ups, reforestation and desert control, restoration of fisheries, creation of national nature reserves, along with energy conservation and development of renewables such as solar and wind power. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Chinese Environment.

Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442269618
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism written by Peter Dauvergne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To capture the diversity within environmentalism, this dictionary takes a global tack with a focus on ideas, events, institutions, initiatives, and green movements since the 1960s. It strives to avoid a common error in many histories of environmentalism: to exaggerate the input of the wealthy countries of Europe and North America and understate the influence of Africa, Asia, South and Central America, and the Polar Regions. It aims as well for a more comprehensive analysis than most histories of the modern environmental movement, understanding environmentalism as emerging not only from grassroots and formal nongovernmental associations, but also from corporate, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations and initiatives. This assumes the ideas and energy infusing environmentalism with political purpose arise from hundreds of thousands of sources: from corporate boardrooms to bureaucratic policies to international negotiations to activists. Thus, environmentalists are not only indigenous people blocking a logging road, Greenpeace activists protesting a seal hunt, or green candidates contesting an election; an equal or larger number of environmentalists are working within the Japanese bureaucracy to implement environmental policies, within the World Bank to assess the environmental impacts of loans, within Wal-Mart to green its purchasing practices, or within intergovernmental forums to negotiate international environmental agreements. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about environmentalism.

A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722204
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian Whyte and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.

A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784028565
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian D. Whyte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline.

A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States

Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826455727
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States written by Chad Montrie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of an educated middle class. Chad Montrie's telling moves the origins of environmentalism much further back in time and attributes the growth of environmental awareness to working people and their families. From the antebellum era to the end of the twentieth century, ordinary Americans have been at the forefront of organizing to save themselves and their communities from environmental harm. This interpretation is nothing short of a substantial recasting of the past, giving a more accurate picture of what happened, when, and why at the beginnings of the environmental movement.

Modern American Environmentalists

Author : George A. Cevasco
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801895243
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Modern American Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern American Environmentalists profiles the lives and contributions of nearly 140 major figures during the twentieth-century environmental movement. Included are iconic environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson, Gifford Pinchot, and Al Gore, and important but less expected names, including John Steinbeck and Allen Ginsberg. The entries recount how each individual became active in environmental conservation, detail his or her significant contributions, trace the influence of each on future efforts, and discuss the person's legacy. The individuals selected for the book displayed either an unparalleled commitment to the conservation, preservation, restoration, and enhancement of the natural environment or made a major contribution to the growth of environmentalism during its first century. With a foreword by environmental historian Everett I. Mendolsohn, a time line of key environmental events, a bibliography of groundbreaking works, and an index organized by specialization, this biographical encyclopedia is a handy and complete guide to the major people involved in the modern American environmental movement.

Historical Dictionary of the World Health Organization

Author : Kelley Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810878585
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the World Health Organization written by Kelley Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Health Organization's history spans more than six decades. The past twenty years has been a particularly busy period in the organization's development, given the transition from international to global health cooperation and thus the need to adapt to major changes in its operating environment. Consequently, the WHO has been a direct part of new institutional arrangements and has shared in increased funding to provide for global health. It has also had to adapt its activities and programs in response to rival initiatives, leading to many changes--not only to the names of specific parts of the WHO but also to the nature of their activities. This second edition explores the organization's institutional complexity."--Back cover.

Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism

Author : Mark W. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115913
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism written by Mark W. Harris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unitarian Universalist religious movement is small in numbers, but has a long history as a radical, reforming movement within Protestantism, coupled with a larger, liberal social witness to the world. Both Unitarianism and Universalism began as Christian denominations, but rejected doctrinal constraints to embrace a human views of Jesus, an openness to continuing revelation, and a loving God who, they believed, wanted to be reconciled with all people. In the twentieth century Unitarian Universalism developed beyond Christianity and theism to embrace other religious perspectives, becoming more inclusive and multi-faith. Efforts to achieve justice and equality included civil rights for African-Americans, women and gays and lesbians, along with strident support for abortion rights, environmentalism and peace. Today the Unitarian Universalist movement is a world-wide faith that has expanded into several new countries in Africa, continued to develop in the Philippines and India, while maintaining historic footholds in Romania, Hungary, England, and especially the United States and Canada. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on people, places, events and trends in the history of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths including American leaders and luminaries, important writers and social reformers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Unitarian Universalism.

A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations

Author : Barbara K. Rodes
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations written by Barbara K. Rodes and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,700 quotations in 143 categories—from Acid Rain to Zoos—that provide a comprehensive collection of the wise and witty observations about our natural environment. "Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones. The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?—it is the same the angels breathe."—Mark Twain, Roughing It Here are more than 3,700 quotations in 143 categories—from Acid Rain to Zoos—that provide a comprehensive collection of the wise and witty observations about our natural environment. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations will delight, provoke, and inform readers. It is at once stimulating, entertaining, and enlightening, with quotations that provide a complete range of human thought about nature and the environment. Quotations have been drawn from a variety of documented sources, including poems, proverbs, slogans, radio, and television, congressional hearings, magazines, and newspapers. The authors of the quotes range from a philosopher in pre-Christian times to a contemporary economist, from a poet who speaks of forests to an engineer concerned with air pollutants. Organized into 143 topic areas such as Air, Conservation, Forests, Greenhouse Effect, History, Nuclear Energy, Water, Wildlife, and other subjects. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations presents a sweeping look at the history of environmentalism as well as the issues and topics that are debated today. It includes two indexes, one by subject and one by author.

The Environment and International History

Author : Scott Kaufman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472527038
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Environment and International History written by Scott Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the history of international relations traditionally have focused on the decisions made by those at the highest levels of government. In more recent years, scholars have expanded their attention to cover economic, cultural, or social interactions among nations. What has remained largely ignored, however, is the impact of an increasingly-interdependent world upon the environment and, conversely, how environmental concerns have affected the ecology, social relationships, economics, and politics at national, regional, and global levels. The Environment and International History fills this gap, looking at the interrelationship between international politics and the environment. Using a transnational and interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how imperialism, war, and a divergence of interests between the developed and underdeveloped world all have had implications for plants, animals, and humans worldwide.

The Environment Dictionary

Author : David Kemp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134797761
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Environment Dictionary written by David Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environment Dictionary provides an essential source of information on all aspects of the environment. It includes all the basic scientific terms and concepts along with socio-economic, cultural, historical and political elements which impact on the environment. This dictionary provides the interdisciplinary approach required to understand environmental issues worldwide. Designed for a wide range of readers, the dictionary is up-to-date, easy to read and to reference and clearly and attractively presented. Selected environmental issues which have particular importance are treated in greater depth through a series of boxed case studies. A wide range of maps, diagrams, figures and photos illustrate the texts and extensie cross-referencing between entries ensures readers can build on their knowledge. References and further reading sections are drawn from a wide range of accessible sources - from newspaper articles and popular magazines to academic texts and journals and provide easy access to further study and development of readers' specific interests.

Encyclopedia of World Environmental History: F-N

Author : Shepard Krech
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415937344
Total Pages : 1429 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Environmental History: F-N written by Shepard Krech and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Ecology

Author : Michael Allaby
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Ecology written by Michael Allaby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary provides authoritative and wide-ranging coverage of ecology and the environmental sciences. Now thoroughly updated for this new edition, it will be invaluable to students, professionals, and anyone with an interest in the natural world and our environment. 5,000 clear and concise entries Subjects include plant and animal physiology, animal behaviour, evolution, environmental pollution and conservation, climatology and meteorology, geomorphology, and oceanography Fully updated to incorporate developments in this rapidly evolving field: in particular in the areas of molecular ecology, conservation, and the management of habitats