American Environmentalism: The US Environmental Movement, 1970-1990

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Pub. Date: 1992-04-01
Publisher(s): Taylor & Franci
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Summary

This work aims to provide an overview of the progress of the US environmentalist movement over the last 20 years. It asks why environmentalism has been able to avoid the fate of most short-lived movements and how it has changed since the first

Table of Contents

Preface xi
The Evolution of the U.S. Environmental Movement from 1970 to 1990: An Overview
1(10)
Riley E. Dunlap
Angela G. Mertig
The Emergence of the U.S. Environmental Movement: A Brief History
1(2)
The Natural History of Social Movements
3(1)
The Stages of Modern Environmentalism
4(1)
Increased Diversity: Strength or Weakness?
5(3)
Conclusion: When Is a Movement Successful?
8(1)
Notes
8(1)
References
9(2)
Twenty Years of Environmental Mobilization: Trends Among National Environmental Organizations
11(16)
Robert Cameron Mitchell
Angela G. Mertig
Riley E. Dunlap
Evolution of the National Environmental Organizations
12(7)
Activities of National Organizations
19(4)
What Success Has Meant for the National Organizations
23(1)
Conclusion
24(1)
Notes
24(1)
References
25(2)
Not in Our Backyards: The Grassroots Environmental Movement
27(12)
Nicholas Freudenberg
Carol Steinsapir
Description of the Grassroots Environmental Movement
28(3)
Shared Perspectives Among Grassroots Environmentalists
31(1)
Comparison with the National Environmental Organizations
32(1)
Accomplishments of the Grassroots Environmental Movement
33(2)
The Future: From NIMBY to NIABY
35(1)
References
35(4)
The Quest for Environmental Equity: Mobilizing the African-American Community for Social Change
39(12)
Robert D. Bullard
Beverly H. Wright
The Environmental Justice Movement
40(1)
The Attraction of Environmental Justice
41(2)
Case Studies from the Southern United States
43(2)
Environmental Conflict Resolution
45(2)
Conclusion
47(1)
Acknowledgment
48(1)
References
48(3)
Deep Ecology and Radical Environmentalism
51(12)
Bill Devall
Deep Ecology
52(2)
Deep Ecology and Green Politics
54(1)
Deep Ecology and Radical Environmentalism
55(2)
Radical Environmental Movements
57(2)
Trends in Radical Environmentalism
59(2)
Notes
61(1)
References
61(2)
Globalizing Environmentalism: Threshold of a New Phase in International Relations
63(14)
Lynton K. Caldwell
Legitimizing Global Environmentalism: The Legacy of Stockholm
64(3)
Globalizing Popular Concern
67(5)
Implementing Global Environmentalism: Political and Institutional Challenges
72(2)
Notes
74(1)
References
75(2)
Twenty Years of Change in the Environmental Movement: An Insider's View
77(12)
Michael McCloskey
Ideology
77(3)
Issues
80(1)
Strategies
81(1)
Tactics
82(1)
How the National Organizations Have Changed
83(2)
Challenges Ahead
85(3)
Notes
88(1)
References
88(1)
Trends in Public Opinion Toward Environmental Issues: 1965--1990
89(28)
Riley E. Dunlap
The Natural Decline Model
90(1)
Trends in Public Concern for Environmental Quality
91(15)
Public Perceptions of Ecological Problems in the 1980s
106(6)
Summary and Implications
112(2)
Notes
114(1)
References
115(2)
Index 117(6)
About the Editors 123

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