Losing ground : American environmentalism at the close of the twentieth century / Mark Dowie.
1995
GE197 .D68 1995 (Mapit)
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Title
Losing ground : American environmentalism at the close of the twentieth century / Mark Dowie.
Author
Dowie, Mark.
ISBN
0262041472
9780262041478
9780262540841
0262540843
9780262041478
9780262540841
0262540843
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
GE197 .D68 1995
Universal Decimal Classification
574(73) D746
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.7/00973
Summary
Traces the history of the environmental movement from its beginnings as private clubs, to the activism of the 1960s and 1970s, to the corporate sellout of the 1990s. Unveils the stories behind American environmentalism's undeniable triumphs and its quite unnecessary failures.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Polite Revolution
1. The Environmental Imagination
2. The Culture of Reform
3. Fix Becomes Folly
4. Antagonists
5. The Third Wave
6. Environmental Justice
7. Faded Green
8. The Fourth Wave
Epilogue: A Reason (or Two) for Hope
Appendix A Principles of Environmental Justice
Appendix B Sierra Club Centennial Address / Michael L. Fischer
Appendix C The Wise Use Agenda.
1. The Environmental Imagination
2. The Culture of Reform
3. Fix Becomes Folly
4. Antagonists
5. The Third Wave
6. Environmental Justice
7. Faded Green
8. The Fourth Wave
Epilogue: A Reason (or Two) for Hope
Appendix A Principles of Environmental Justice
Appendix B Sierra Club Centennial Address / Michael L. Fischer
Appendix C The Wise Use Agenda.