Environmentalism, 2nd Edition

With the fate of the environment set to become a dominant concern of the 21st century, this new Seminar Study will be an essential introduction to the history of environmentalism and the political and social debates surrounding the western world’s pairing of economic growth and nature appreciation.

• Environmental history is a growing field within academia and is set to expand as the topic becomes more defined and integrated with the core curriculum

• Big student numbers (400+ on some courses), esp within tourism and environment courses, are set to rise.

• There is currently a lack of short, accessible overviews to the subject.

• Supported by the seminar studies pedagogical features of maps, illustrations and documents, this book will be unique in the market.

Chronology

Who’s Who

Glossary

Maps

            Contributions to global warming

            Protected areas on land

Illustrations

            J.M.W. Turner Slave Ship painting

            Pet cemetery at Asnières

            Autobahn

            Earth from outer space

            Greenpeace anti-whaling action

            SUV ad

            Saltwater aquarium

            Painting of wind turbines

PART ONE      ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT

1                     Introduction

2                     Domesticating the wild

Background

The birth of conservation

Nostalgia and nature loving

The birth of nature tourism

Pets

Environmentalism in the colonies and early U.S.

3                     Industrial nature loving

The spread of conservation and preservation

Nature and nation

Wild nature

Domesticating the wild

4                     The friendly wild of post-war affluence

Background

American suburbs

The friendly wild

Meaning and ecology

5                     The counter-culture’s nature

Prosperity and alienation

Wild = good

Nature loving goes mainstream

Farley Mowat and the world we have lost

Mother nature’s sons: Jacques Cousteau and John Denver

6                     Epiphanies

Silent Spring

Green surge

Western Europe

The rest of the West

Green nationalism

7                     Radical departures

Background

Deep Ecology

Bioregionalism and ecofeminism

Friends of the Earth

Greenpeace and Earth First!

8                     Thwarted

Background

Western-European Greens

Central and Eastern Europe

Backlash and accomodation

Success stories

Divisions

9                     Extreme nature loving

Wilderness and technology

Wild playgrounds

Consuming nature

Aquariums and dogs

Freeing Keiko and finding Nemo

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                Bjǿ[no accent]rn 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

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

REFERENCES

INDEX