Environmentalism: A Global HistoryLongman, 2000 - 161 pages A new entry in the Longman World History Series, Environmentalism: A Global History is perfect for professors who want to assign short topical paperbacks which explore global issues and movements in their world history classes. This volume will fit into the second half of World History courses which typically cover the period from 1500 to the present century. Environmentalism: A Global History is the first genuinely global history of environmentalism. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to South Africa, Guha has become one of the more provocative and perceptive commentators on environmentalism in its cross-cultural and global dimensions. Students will find this new text to be a lively and engaging study of ideas and debates that are central to our lives in the twentieth-first century. |
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... destruction greatly accelerated . Nature became a source of cheap raw material as well as a sink for dumping the unwanted residues of economic growth . Open - cast mining and the ever - growing appetite of industry decimated forests and ...
... destruction of forests , the want of permanent springs and the existence of torrents are three phenomena closely connected together . Countries that are situated in opposite hemispheres , Lombardy bordered by the chain of the Alps and ...
... destruction of our ecology and with it the poisoning of the water and air of Hamburg in an un- precendented and unimaginable scale . It would not suffice any more to see " environmental protection " in protests against carelessly thrown ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
Copyright | |
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