Environmentalism of the Rich by Peter Dauvergne

Author:Peter Dauvergne [Dauvergne, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. The quote “Can anyone believe …” is from Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 40th Anniversary Edition (First Mariner Books, 2002), pp. 7–8. Also see William Souder, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring (Broadway Books, 2012). For bibliographies of other influential environmentalists, see Further Readings, “Environmentalists (biographies).”

2. The English word “environment” did not start to take on a political meaning linked to nature and ecosystems until the 1960s, before then referring mainly to home or work environments. See Gordon J. MacDonald, “Environment: Evolution of a Concept,” Journal of Environment & Development 12 (2) (2003), pp. 151–176.For a critical take on the history of global environmentalism, see Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 2000), and Ramachandra Guha, “Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique,” Environmental Ethics 11 (Spring) (1989), pp. 71–83. For one of the more comprehensive histories of environmentalism, see Joachim Radkau, The Age of Ecology: A Global History, translated by Patrick Camiller (Polity Press, 2014); for a succinct overview of environmentalism, see the introduction to Peter Dauvergne, Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism (Scarecrow Press, 2009), released in paperback as The A to Z of Environmentalism.Other valuable surveys of environmentalism include David Peterson del Mar, Environmentalism, third edition (Taylor & Francis, 2012); Paul Wapner, Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism (MIT Press, 2010); Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Viking Penguin, 2007); Christof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, and Douglas R. Weiner, eds., Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006); Derek Wall, Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements (Pluto Press, 2005); John Dryzek, The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, third edition (Oxford University Press, 2013); John Dryzek and David Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2005); Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal, Free Market Environmentalism, revised edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001); Sylvia Noble Tesh, Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof (Cornell University Press, 2000); Leslie Paul Thiele, Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution (Oxford University Press, 1999); Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (SUNY Press, 1996); David Pepper, Modern Environmentalism: An Introduction (Routledge, 1996). For a succinct critique of the continuing focus of much of environmentalism on a “defense of nature,” see Paul Wapner, “The Changing Nature of Nature: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene,” Global Environmental Politics 14 (4) (2014), pp. 36–54. For a recent optimistic account of the influence environmentalism, see David R. Boyd, The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future (ECW Press, 2015).For debates surrounding the concept of sustainability, see Margaret Robertson, Sustainability: Principles and Practice (Routledge, 2014), Neil E. Harrison, Sustainable Capitalism and the Pursuit of Well-Being (Routledge, 2014); Peter N. Nemetz, Business and the Sustainability Challenge: An Integrated Perspective (Routledge, 2013); Michael Blowfield, Business and Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2013);

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