Until you’ve consumed all of the best Environmentalism books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2013)
- Environmentalism: A Global History (1999)
- Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (2018)
- Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural (2008)
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (2016)
- Environmentalism of the Rich (The MIT Press) (2018)
- Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations (2019)
- Native American Environmentalism: Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness (2014)
- Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (2019)
- Environmentalism (Seminar Studies) (2011)
- Ecofundamentalism: A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism (2015)
- Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (Society, Environment, and Place) (1996)
- Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation (2015)
- Environmental Justice and Environmentalism (Urban and Industrial Environments): The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (2007)
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2013)
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of “slow violence” to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today.
Environmentalism: A Global History (1999)
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.
Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (2018)
Activists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys.
Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural (2008)
In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Noël Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts social inequities as “natural” and how our images of “nature” interfere with creating solutions to environmental problems that are just and fair for all.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (2016)
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world.
Environmentalism of the Rich (The MIT Press) (2018)
Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, and globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth a better place to live. But has the environmental movement actually brought about meaningful progress toward global sustainability?
Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations (2019)
How might understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities shift by incorporating Islamic perspectives? In this book, Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms.
Native American Environmentalism: Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness (2014)
In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as “wilderness” and “nature.” The conflict between Christian environmentalis…
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (2019)
The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought.
Environmentalism (Seminar Studies) (2011)
Why 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.
Ecofundamentalism: A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism (2015)
Everyone has heard of environmentalism, but what is it? Is it ideology or religion? Like socialism, environmentalism is a political program, but even more diffuse. Environmentalists hold diverse opinions, from wanting to take care of nature in human interest to putting nature above man. The latter is religious environmentalism, with nature taking the place of the supernatural.
Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (Society, Environment, and Place) (1996)
not only by lobbyists or hikers. While mainstream environmentalism is usually characterized by well-financed, highly structured organizations operating on a national scale, campaigns for environmental justice are often fought by poor or minority communities. Environmentalism and Economic Justice is one of the first books devoted to Chicano environmental issues and is a study of U.S. environmentalism in transition as seen through the contributions of people of color.
Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation (2015)
This book provides a vision for environmentalism’s future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides the next generation of environmental market ideas and the chapters are co-authored with young scholars and policy analysts who represent the next generation of environmental leaders.
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism (Urban and Industrial Environments): The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (2007)
Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice movement has charged the mainstream environmental movement with racism and elitism and has criticized its activist agenda on the grounds that it values wilderness over people.
Best Environmentalism Books That Will Hook You
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A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism
Author(s): Marvin T. Brown
ID: 3225662, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century
Author(s): Kai Bosworth
ID: 3359898, Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism: The Green Movement in Times of Catastrophe
Author(s): Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn
ID: 3448389, Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
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