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Title:

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

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Green movement--History.
Environmentalism--History.

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

Series:

International environmental history

ISBN:

0742546470
9780742546479
9780742546486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742546489 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742546479 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742546470 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64486875

LCCN:

2006007203

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)