1st Edition
Varieties of Environmentalism Essays North and South
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Routledge
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Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive preserve of the affluent westerner: the ultimate luxury of the consumer society. Citizens of the world's poorest countries, ran the... Read more
Part 1: The Environmentalism of the Poor From Political Economy to Political Ecology Poverty and the Environment: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom Towards a Cross-Cultural Environmental Ethic Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique The Merchandising of Biodiversity The Failure of Ecological Planning in Barcelona Part 2: People Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement In Memory of Georgescu-Roegen The Forgotten American Environmentalist
Biography
Guha, Ramachandra; Martínez Alier, Joan
'This fruitful collaboration touches upon the fundamentals of ecological behaviours and ecological politics 'a pleasure to read.' Elmar Altvater, Professor of Political Economy, Free University of Berlin.
