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Environmentalism

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ISBN-10: 1408255588

ISBN-13: 9781408255582

Edition: 2nd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: David Peterson Del Mar

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List price: $34.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Publisher's acknowledgements
Chronology
Who's who
Glossary
Map
Analysis And Assessment
Introduction
Domesticating The Wild
Background
The birth of conservation
Nostalgia and nature loving
The birth of nature tourism
Pets
Environmentalism in the colonies and early US
Industrial Nature Loving
The spread of conservation and preservation
Nature and nation
Wild nature
Domesticating the wild
The Friendly Wild Of Post-War Affluence
Background
American suburbs
The friendly wild
Meaning and ecology
The Counter-Culture's Nature
Prosperity and alienation
Wild = good
Nature loving goes mainstream
Farley Mowat and the world we have lost
Mother nature�s sons: Cousteau and Denver
Epiphanies
Silent Spring
Green surge
Western Europe
The rest of the West
Green nationalism
Radical Departures
Background
Deep ecology
Bioregionalism and ecofeminism
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace and Earth First
Thwarted
Background
Western European Greens
Central and Eastern Europe
Backlash and accommodation
Success stories
Divisions
Extreme Nature Loving
Wilderness and technology
Wild playgrounds
Consuming nature
Aquariums and dogs
Freeing Keiko and finding Nemo
Assessment
Documents
Beowulf
William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey
The Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835
George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
William Morris, News from Nowhere
vRobert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys
John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierras
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Donella H. Meadows et al, The limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Arne Naess, 'The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movements'
Endangered Species Act of 1973
Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz
Earth First! Action in Oregon, 1985
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992
Petra Kelly, 'Creating an Ecological Economy'
Kyoto Protocol, 1997
Bj�rn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
�10 Steps to Animal Communication'
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Rural Manifesto of the Countryside Alliance, 2009
Report of the League Against Cruel Sports, 2010
Guide To Further Reading
References
Index