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Taylor & Francis Ltd Green Parties in National Governments Environmental Politics
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Taylor & Francis Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Innovation in Environmental Leadership
Book SynopsisInnovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from around the globe, and are informed by a variety of critical perspectives, including post-heroic approaches, systems thinking, and the emerging insights of Critical Leadership Studies (CLS). By taking the natural environment seriously as a foundational context for leadership, Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers fresh insights and compelling visions of leadership pertinent to 21st century environmental and social challenges. Concepts and understandings of leadership emerged as part of an extractive industrial system; this work asks its readers to re-think what leadership looks like in an ecologically sustainable biological system.This book provides fresh insights and critiTable of ContentsIntroductionBenjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, and Rian Satterwhite1. The Seven Unsustainabilities of Mainstream Leadership Jem Bendell, Richard Little, and Neil Sutherland 2. A Case for Universal Contexts: Intersections of the Biosphere, Systems, and Justice Using a Critical Constructionist Lens Rian Satterwhite 3. The Eco-Leadership Paradox Simon Western 4. Sustainable Leadership: Toward Restoring the Human and Natural World. Tina Evans5. Eco-leadership, Complexity Science, and 21st Century Organizations: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. D. Adam Cletzer and Eric K. Kaufman 6. Towards an Understanding of the Relationship Between the Study of Leadership and the Natural World Robert McManus7. The Unseen Revolution: Leadership for Sustainability in the Tropical Biosphere Paul Kosempel, Linda G. Olson, and Filiberto Penados8. Heroes No More: Businesses Practice Collaborative Leadership to Confront Climate Change Deborah Rigling Gallagher 9. Climate Change Leadership: From Tragic to Comic DiscourseBenjamin Redekop and Morgan Thomas 10. Followers’ Self-Perception of their Role in Addressing Climate Change: A Cultural Comparison David J. Brown and Robert M. McManus 11. Ending the Drought: Nurturing Environmental Leadership in EthiopiaFentahun Mengistu, Girma Shimellis, and Vachel Miller12. We Don’t Conquer Mountains, We Understand Them: Embedding Indigenous Education in Australian Outdoor Education Shawn Andrews 13. Critical Internal Shifts for Sustainable Leadership Kathleen E. Allen14. From Peril to Possibility: Restorative Leadership for a Sustainable Future Seana Lowe SteffenConclusionBenjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, and Rian Satterwhite
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmentalism
Book SynopsisWhy are our environmental problems still growing despite a huge increase in global conservation efforts? Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialization drove people to look for meaning in nature even as they consumed its products more relentlessly. Hence England led the way in both manufacturing and preserving its countryside, and the United States created a matchless set of national parks as it became the world''s pre-eminent economic and military power.Environmental movements have produced some impressive results, including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and places. But agendas that challenged western prosperity and comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists. Environmentalism considers a wide range of conservation and preservation movements and less organiTable of ContentsPART ONE ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT. 1 Introduction. 2 Domesticating the wild. 3 Industrial nature loving. 4 The friendly wild of post-war affluence. 5 The counter-culture’s nature. 6 Epiphanies. 7 Radical departures. 8 Thwarted. 9 Extreme nature loving. 10 Assessment. PART TWO DOCUMENTS. 1 Beowulf. 2 William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 3 The Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835. 4 George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature. 5 Anna Sewell, Black Beauty. 6 William Morris, News from Nowhere. 7 Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys. 8 John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierras. 9 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. 10 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac. 11 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. 12 Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf. 13 Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. 14 John Denver, Rocky Mountain High. 15 Richard Adams, Watership Down. 16 Donella H. Meadows, et al., The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind. 17 Arne Naess, “The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movements”. 18 Endangered Species Act of 1973. 19 Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz. 20 Earth First Action in Oregon, 1985. 21 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992. 22 Petra Kelly, “Creating an Ecological Economy”. 23 Kyoto Protocol, 1997. 24 Bjǿrn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. 25 Animal Wellness Magazine, “10 Steps to Animal Communication”. 26 Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and what We Can Do About It. 27 Rural Manifesto of the Countryside Alliance, 2009. 28 Report of the League Against Cruel Sports, 2010.
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Cambridge University Press Between Two Worlds
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Cambridge University Press The Human Right to a Green Future
Book SynopsisThis book presents an argument for establishing environmental human rights as the legitimate possession of both present and future generations. It uses these rights - to clean air, water, and soil - to make an argument for justice across generations, that is, for recognizing the obligation that present generations have to preserve the environment and natural resources for future generations.Trade Review'The Human Right to a Green Future does provide a good survey and application of political and philosophical thinkers and their reflections on justice and human rights … the book is a welcome addition for researchers considering issues of environmental human rights from a theoretical and multi-disciplinary perspective.' Andrew Sanger, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues'… Richard P. Hiskes offers a highly original … response with The Human Right to a Green Future. What is original about this work is the way in which [he] combines arguments from the realms of human rights and intergenerational justice in an attempt to make a case for, as he puts it, 'gathering the collective will necessary to preserve the planet' … Hiskes sets the bar laudably high for those communities that his argument can comfortably and rather uncontroversially be extended to, namely, western liberal democratic states with a settled political culture and stable political institutions.' International Affairs'This is a far-reaching book that presents a seminal interpretation of intergenerational justice and a renewed landscape for rights, justice and community. Hiskes' narrative is saturated with responses to salient figures in philosophy and political theory. I regret that [this] synopsis cannot capture the range and richness of his account.' Human Rights ReviewTable of Contents1. Environmental human rights and intergenerational justice; 2. Emergent human rights, identity, harms and duties; 3. Reflexive reciprocity and intergenerational environmental justice; 4. Cosmopolitan ethics, communal reciprocity, and global environmentalism; 5. Toward a global consensus on environmental human rights; 6. Human rights as inheritance: instituting intergenerational environmental justice; 7. Conclusion: environmental justice and the emergent future of human rights.
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Cambridge University Press The Amazon from an International Law Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Human Right to a Green Future Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice
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Cambridge University Press Global Green Politics
Book SynopsisIn light of growing urgency in tackling the global environmental crisis, there is a need for new visions and strategies to ensure a more sustainable and just world. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Green perspectives on a range of global issues, including security, the economy, the state, global governance, development and the environment. Drawing on academic literature on Green political theory, combined with insights from real-world practice and the author''s own extensive personal experience, it provides a timely and accessible account of why we need to embrace Green politics in order to tackle the multiple crises facing the world today. Presenting alternative visions and concrete strategies for achieving change, this book will be of interest to activists and policy-makers as well as students of environment, development and politics.Trade Review'With young people on the streets and the climate emergency top of the political agenda, Green politics has never been more important. With everybody trying to steal the Greens' political clothes, a book that explains the role Green politics can play in ensuring a safe, sustainable and happy life for all global citizens is very timely.' Molly Scott Cato, Member of the European Parliament'Change can simmer for decades then happen overnight. Peter Newell has concentrated years of thought into a single, landscape-shaping publication which reveals the potential of Green politics and the perils of it remaining the poor relation of how we try to understand the world. He shows that, without a Green perspective, there can be no answer to our epochal challenges of conflict, inequality, migration and climate breakdown.' Andrew Simms, NewWeather Institute'Radical, ecologically oriented political perspectives have much to teach us about the study and practice of world politics. For the first time, Global Green Politics fully exposes the deep insights and essential lessons from these perspectives. Anyone who wants to understand why our global sustainability crisis is escalating, and what action is necessary, should rush to read Peter Newell's visionary book.' Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia'Accessible, timely and comprehensive, Peter Newell's latest book provides a lucid and thorough review of the various strands of Green politics and discusses how they might enrich the broader field of international relations. Most valuable is the insightful and pragmatic way that Global Green Politics offers a set of tools and frameworks that enable the systematic application of these perspectives to a range of key contemporary issues, including the economy, security and development. Overall, the book illuminates how Green politics can provide the conceptual frameworks, critical analysis, and practical strategies needed to address the severe challenges facing our societies and the planet.' David Levy, University of Massachusetts–Boston'Global Green Politics makes the case for international relations scholarship to take seriously Green politics … as an important critical normative and analytical approach to IR issues ranging from state security and sovereignty to 'globalisation' and international political economy. Against the backdrop of growing (if uneven) recognition of the scale and urgency of the changes necessary to meet the challenges and transformative opportunities of climate and ecological breakdown, Newell makes the persuasive case for the long overdue acknowledgement of the insights of Green political theory and political economy within IR thinking. Global Green Politics not only is the first comprehensive integration of Green political analysis and IR, but in doing so constitutes an invaluable and pioneering guide to how to think globally in the twenty-first century, and how to understand and navigate our uncertain and turbulent times.' John Barry, Queens University Belfast'At last, here is a critical introduction to global Green politics from one of the field's most versatile intellectual pioneers. Grounded in a deep appreciation of the inextricable interconnections between social and ecological systems, this book offers a clear normative vision, a penetrating critique of business and politics as usual and a set of practical strategies for sustainability transitions. Younger generations can now take heart!' Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne'Newell's incisive analysis brings a vital Green lens to the study of global politics that has been largely neglected by mainstream scholars of international relations. Global Green Politics provides powerful insights and critiques that arise from taking an expressly ecological perspective on humanity's most pressing global concerns.' Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo'In addition to its relevance for international relations, this volume provides a well-documented survey of the current state of green thought … In the end, Newell is convincing in arguing that an approach such as the one he lays out is needed if the global society is to ward off catastrophic collapse.' J. C. Berg, Choice'In addition to its relevance for international relations, this volume provides a well-documented survey of the current state of green thought … In the end, Newell is convincing in arguing that an approach such as the one he lays out is needed if the global society is to ward off catastrophic collapse.' J. C. Berg, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Global Green politics: for the common good; 2. What is green politics?; 3. Green security; 4. Green economy; 5. Green state; 6. Green global governance; 7. Green development; 8. Green sustainability; 9. Conclusions: global politics for the common goal; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Greening Democracy
Book SynopsisGreening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. It charts how anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding conceptions of democracy beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.Trade Review'This is what democracy looks like! Milder magnificently brings together politics from all quarters, offering fresh and compelling insights into democratic practice and how change happens. A must-read for scholars of contemporary Germany and Europe - and for students of social change.' Belinda Davis, Rutgers University, New Jersey'Greening Democracy will make the reading list of anyone interested in the post-war transformation of West Germany. In this well-argued and deeply researched book, Stephen Milder probes the relationship between environmental protest and democracy and shows that anti-nuclear activism in the 1970s not only transformed the party political landscape but broadened the possibilities of political engagement as such. Faced with impenetrable technocratic decision-making processes that took no heed of local concerns, residents embraced liberal democracy to counter such illiberal tendencies. Milder reminds us of the radical democratic potential that inhabited the protest movements.' Astrid M. Eckert, Emory University, Georgia'Greening Democracy offers a fresh perspective on West German anti-nuclear protest and environmental politics of the 1970s by recovering the voices and aspirations of the grassroots activists who transformed their 'kitchen table' concerns about nuclear power in the Rhine Valley into a transnational coalition. Moving beyond tired debates about the supposed narrowness of 'post-material' environmental concerns or lamentations over the co-opting of the emancipatory potential of the '68 New Left by the traditional party system, Milder shows the radical potential of the heterogeneous group of provincials who came together at Wyhl and other sites to foster new and inclusive forms of democracy and challenge what they perceived as an unfeeling 'atomic state'. The other major contribution of the book is to use the grassroots perspective to situate the 1970s as a unique moment of environmental coalition building generated by new citizen initiatives with its own dynamics and integrity - not an outgrowth of traditional nature conservation in Germany but also not something that emerged suddenly as a result of Stockholm and the OPEC crisis.' Thomas Lekan, University of South Carolina'Stephen Milder's impressive new book seeks to recast our understanding of this history on multiple fronts. He breaks not only with conventional narratives that explain 1970s environmentalism by way of elite ideas and international organizations but also with social movement research confined to a national framework … This book makes an important intervention with which not only scholars of the environmental movement and the nuclear age but also anyone interested in protest, popular politics and political imaginaries in post-war Western Europe should contend.' Sean Forner, German History'In his searching, informative account of resistance toward Swiss, French, and West German nuclear reactor projects along the Upper Rhine, Stephen Milder's Greening Democracy recounts how strange bedfellows - radical students and conservative locals - planted the seeds of Germany's Green Party and ecological politics throughout Western Europe.' Jonathan Hunt, Environmental History'… inspiring regional approach … an important book.' Jan Kellershohn, Moving the SocialTable of ContentsIntroduction: taking the democratic dimensions of antinuclear activism; 1. 'Today the fish, tomorrow us:' the threatened Upper Rhine and the grassroots origins of West European environmentalism; 2. A different watch on the Rhine: how antinuclear activists imagined the Alemannic community and united a region in resistance; 3. Onto the site and into significance? The Wyhl Occupation in its contexts, from Strasbourg to Kaiseraugst and Constance to Kiel; 4. 'Wyhl and then what …?' Between grassroots activism and mass protest; 5. Political questions, grassroots answers: shaping an environmental approach to electoral politics; 6. Organizing a 'decisive battle against nuclear power plants': Europe and the nationalization of Green politics in West Germany; Conclusion: protesting nuclear energy, Greening democracy.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology,
Book SynopsisAs in past installments of “The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology” series, this year’s volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews in conservation biology and scientific, policy, and management implications, including reviews in the following areas: The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: Status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals; translocation of imperiled species under changing climates; ecology and conservation of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in a changing world; risks to biodiversity from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica Shales; species-area relationships and extinction forecasts; and Bounded Ranges of Variation as a framework for future conservation and fire management. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&10.1111/(ISSN)1749-6632 ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy Science receive full-text access to Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.Table of ContentsRisks to biodiversity from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica Shales 1 Erik Kiviat Translocation of imperiled species under changing climates 15 Mark W. Schwartz and Tara G. Martin The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals 29 Joe Roman, Irit Altman, Meagan M. Dunphy-Daly, Caitlin Campbell, Michael Jasny, and Andrew J. Read Species-area Relationships and extinction forecasts 50 John M. Halley, Vasiliki Sgardeli, and Nikolaos Monokrousos Ecology and conservation of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in a changing world 62 James B. McGraw, Anne E. Lubbers, Martha Van der Voort Emily H. Mooney, Mary Ann Furedi, Sara Souther, Jessica B. Turner, and Jennifer Chandler Bounded ranges of variation as a framework for a future conservation and fire management 92 Max A. Moritz, Matthew D. Hurteau, Katherine N. Suding, and Carla M. D’Antonio
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Ecology Against Capitalism
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Allen & Unwin Tasmania's Wilderness Battles: A history
Book SynopsisTasmania's old-growth forests, its wild, untamed rivers and its remote, rugged mountain peaks are etched in the minds of most Australians but these wilderness areas have been the focus of bitter conflict between government, big business and environmentalists for the past 30 years. Although told mostly from an environmentalist's point of view, this book is a factual record of events. Beginning in the 1970s with the flooding of Lake Pedder, it takes the reader through the heady days of the Franklin River blockade and the more recent battles for Tasmania's old-growth forests, culminating with the controversial proposal for the Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. Unfolding events reveal something of how politics is done in the island state and why a climate of suspicion and mistrust persists among the various interest groups. These battles also have had ramifications for the whole of Australia. They have played a defining part in the shaping of the Green party as well as The Wilderness Society and The Australian Conservation Foundation. Never before has Tasmania been examined through the prism of conflicting values over wilderness. This approach shows what influence this single issue has had upon Tasmania's recent history.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Umwelt und Herrschaft in der DDR: Politik,
Book SynopsisDie Umweltbilanz der DDR fällt bitter aus. Doch während die vorhandenen Umweltprobleme in den achtziger Jahren in einen unversöhnlichen Konflikt zwischen dem SED-Staat und Teilen der Gesellschaft mündeten, hatte die Situation gut zwanzig Jahre zuvor ganz anders ausgesehen. Die Verabschiedung des Landeskulturgesetzes im Jahr 1970 markierte einen Aufbruch, der nicht nur eine Verbesserung der Umweltsituation in Aussicht stellte, sondern auch gesellschaftliches Umweltengagement gezielt förderte.Die Studie untersucht die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Aushandlung von Umweltfragen in der sozialistischen Diktatur. Der Fokus ist auf die politische Kommunikation in Eingaben, gesellschaftliche Initiativen und die verschiedenartigen Räume des Mitmachens gerichtet. Auf diese Weise ist es nicht nur möglich, die Hintergründe des ökologischen Niederganges jenseits teleologischer Deutungsmuster ausgewogen darzustellen, sondern auch die Vielfalt des Umwelthandelns im Staatssozialismus zu beleuchten.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Green Beat: Gary Snyder und die moderne
Book SynopsisGary Snyder (born 1930) is one of the most important poets of the 20th century. The Pulitzer Prize winner's work includes poems, prose, scientific essays and more. Snyder has been the subject of much academic work over the past five decades, and his writing and environmental activism have been recognized by both the public and politicians. As the central figure of the American subcultures, he mainly influenced the beat generation and the hippie movement; it is also associated with more recent phenomena such as the back-to-the-land movement or eco-villages. Snyder is a figurehead and co-founder of American bioregionalism and the environmental and natural philosophy "Deep Ecology": Both are of central importance for the modern environmental movement. Martin Spenger's biography tracks the interfaces between Gary Snyder's life and the major environmental and sociopolitical events in the United States.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Von Vögeln, Mächten und Bienen: Die Geschichte
Book SynopsisDas Buch verfolgt die bewegte Geschichte des Landesbunds von seinen Anfängen als »Staatlich autorisierte Kommission für Vogelschutz im königlichen Bayern« bis zum heutigen Verband mit mehr als 100.000 Mitgliedern. Wenige Umweltverbände haben eine so bewegte Geschichte wie der 1909 gegründete LBV. Anfangs auf Vogelschutz fokussiert, entwickelte er sich zu einem agilen zivilgesellschaftlichen Verband, der Arten- und Biotopschutz in seiner ganzen Breite betreibt. Frank Uekötter zeichnet die Entwicklung des LBV über politische Zäsuren hinweg nach, diskutiert die Alltagsarbeit und das wechselnde Verständnis, welche Vögel zu welchem Zweck zu schützen waren. Sichtbar wird eine lokal und regional fest verwurzelte Organisation, die kooperativer arbeitet als andere Umweltverbände – aber seit dem Volksbegehren »Rettet die Bienen« auch über Bayern hinaus bekannt ist.
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