In 'Reclaiming Nature', leading environmental thinkers from across the globe explore the relationship between human activities and the natural world. The authors draw inspiration and lessons from diverse experiences ranging from community-based fishery and forestry management to innovative strategies for combating global warming. They advance a compelling new vision of environmentalism, founded on the link between the struggle to reclaim nature and the struggle for social justice. This book advances three core propositions: first, humans can and do have positive as well as negative effects...
In 'Reclaiming Nature', leading environmental thinkers from across the globe explore the relationship between human activities and the natural worl...
One of the defining documents of the women's rights movement in the United States is the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions." Principally authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the declaration was signed by one hundred attendees sixty-eight women and thirty-two men at the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in July 1848. The controversial and courageous document stated: because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as...
One of the defining documents of the women's rights movement in the United States is the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions." Principally auth...