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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... interest in the richness and diversity of nature . The exuberance of plant and animal life in the tropics was documented by a whole array of European scientists , of whom the Englishman Charles Darwin ( 1809–82 ) is perhaps the best ...
... interest ; and as regards lands , to preserve ( so far as practicable ) their natural as- pects , features , and animal and plant life ; and for this purpose to accept from private owners of property , gifts and places of interest or ...
... interest and to regulate the use of natural elements , susceptible to appropriation so as to distribute equitably the public wealth and to safeguard its conservation . ' In 1922 Quevedo founded the Mexican Forestry Society to more ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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