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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Acronyms | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: "La Tierra Es Vida" | |
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| Overview of Environmental Issues and the Mexican-Origin People | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Notes | |
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| Principles of Scientific Ecology | |
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| Succession to Climax or Accidental Associations? | |
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| Nature as Ecosystem | |
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| The Web of Life | |
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| The Land Ethic | |
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| Stability and Change in Ecosystems | |
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| Critiques of Cybernetic Ecology | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Ecologies of Chaos | |
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| The Ecology of Disturbance | |
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| Anthropogenesis: Placing People in the Environment | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Environmental History of Mega-Mexico, El Sur | |
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| Changing Biological and Cultural Diversity of Mega-Mexico | |
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| Pre-contact Civilizations | |
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| The Spanish Colonial Ecological Revolution | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Environmental History of Mega-Mexico, El Norte | |
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| Ecological Worldviews | |
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| Ecological Revolutions in El Norte | |
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| Biological Diversity in El Norte | |
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| Ancestral Civilizations and Environmental Change | |
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| First Nations and the Mexican-Origin People | |
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| The Nortena/o Ecological Revolution, 1598-1848 | |
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| The Industrial-Capitalist Ecological Revolution, 1848-1950 | |
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| A Century of Precursors | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Chicana/o Critique of Mainstream American Environmentalism | |
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| Natural Resource Conservation | |
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| Wilderness Preservation | |
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| Professional Environmentalism: The Group of Ten | |
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| Rachel Carson and the Roots of Radical Environmentalism | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Chicana/o Critique of Radical American Environmentalism | |
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| Deep Ecology | |
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| Social Ecology | |
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| Ecofeminism | |
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| Ecosocialism | |
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| Bioregionalism | |
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| The Antitoxics Movement | |
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| The Environmental Justice Movement (EJM) | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Ecological Politics and the Mexican-Origin People, 1980-2002 | |
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| Nos Matan en Cosechas Toxicas: Farmworkers and the Environment | |
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| Donde Estan? Farmworker Health Care and Housing | |
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| Nos Matan en Malditas Fabricas: Factory Workers and the Environment | |
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| Se Robaron Nuestra Tierra Madre: Land Grants and the Environment | |
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| Sin Agua No Hay Vida: Acequia Farmers and the Environment | |
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| Hacen Ruinas de Nuestras Vecindades: Political Ecology of the Barrio | |
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| Somos Humanos y No Lo Olvidan: Rural Colonias and the Environment | |
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| Concluding Thoughts: Is the Earth Local? | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusion: Mexican-Origin People and the Future of Environmentalism | |
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| Future Trends and Emerging Issues | |
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| Final Words | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Source Credits | |
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| Index | |