Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South

ISBN-13: 9781853833298 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str.

Ramachandra Guha; Juan Martinez-Alier

Opis

Articulates the values and orientation of the environmentalism of the poor, and explores the conflicting priorities of South and North that were so dramatically highlighted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This book presents analyses of environmental conflicts and ideologies in four continents: North and South America, Asia and Europe.

Recenzje

'This fruitful collaboration touches upon the fundamentals of ecological behaviours and ecological politics 'a pleasure to read.' Elmar Altvater, Professor of Political Economy, Free University of Berlin.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Environmentalism of the Poor  From Political Economy to Political Ecology  Poverty and the Environment: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom  Towards a Cross-Cultural Environmental Ethic  Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique  The Merchandising of Biodiversity  The Failure of Ecological Planning in Barcelona  Part 2: People  Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement  In Memory of Georgescu-Roegen  The Forgotten American Environmentalist

O autorze

Guha, Ramachandra; Martínez Alier, Joan