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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Organization and strategy in social movements--
• 3. Grassroots environmentalism in Pittsburgh--
• 4. Environmental issues and framing work--
• 5. Mobilizing a grassroots environmental movement--
• 6. Creating movement infrastructure and community--
• 7. Social movement meetings--
• 8. Devising strategy--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Grassroots activism is essential to the success of the contemporary environmental movement, which depends on the organization of local activists as well as state, national, and international organizations. Yet grassroots activists confront numerous challenges as they attempt to organize diverse participants and devise fresh strategies and tactics. Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork following diverse organizations in Pittsburgh over time, this book sheds light on the struggles that activists face and the factors that sustain movements. Suzanne Staggenborg examines individual motivations and participation, organizational structures and cultures, relationships in movement communities, and strategies and tactics, including issue framing. The book shows that collective action campaigns and tactics generate solidarity, maintain involvement, and bring in new participants even as organizers struggle to devise effective new types of actions.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Organization and strategy in social movements--
• 3. Grassroots environmentalism in Pittsburgh--
• 4. Environmental issues and framing work--
• 5. Mobilizing a grassroots environmental movement--
• 6. Creating movement infrastructure and community--
• 7. Social movement meetings--
• 8. Devising strategy--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Grassroots activism is essential to the success of the contemporary environmental movement, which depends on the organization of local activists as well as state, national, and international organizations. Yet grassroots activists confront numerous challenges as they attempt to organize diverse participants and devise fresh strategies and tactics. Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork following diverse organizations in Pittsburgh over time, this book sheds light on the struggles that activists face and the factors that sustain movements. Suzanne Staggenborg examines individual motivations and participation, organizational structures and cultures, relationships in movement communities, and strategies and tactics, including issue framing. The book shows that collective action campaigns and tactics generate solidarity, maintain involvement, and bring in new participants even as organizers struggle to devise effective new types of actions.
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• An Introduction to Practical Environmentalism and the Four Pillars A Short History of Environmentalism in the United States The Ethics of Environmentalism Issue-Driven Environmentalism Process-Based Environmentalism Regulatory Environmentalism Protest Environmentalism Perspective-Based Environmentalism The Nonbeliever The Live Earth Spaceship Earth Back to Nature Doomsday Anticonsumption Cornucopia The Confounding Factors Competing Objectives Uncertainty Measures of Success Fallacy of Prediction Assumption of Future States The Problem with Percentages History of Paranoia Crisis Mentality Environmental DegradationThe First Pillar Resource ConservationThe Second Pillar The "Human" Pillars of Economic Progress and Personal Benefit Economic Progress Personal Benefit Scoring with the PillarsA Few Simple Examples to Illustrate the Method The Pillars in Daily Life The Pillars and the Really Big Issues More Really Big IssuesThe Sacrificial Ones The Pillars and Global Warming Other Measures of Environmental Performance Carbon Footprint Carrying Capacity Life-Cycle Costing Government and Scientific Reports Green AccountingISEW (Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare) Simple Monetary Economics Some Final Thoughts Index Most chapters include references.
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Environmental decisions present themselves every day in forms large and small. Should I walk to work today? What about global warmingshould I write my congressperson and demand that the government do something? Should I put solar panels on my roof? Should I get a different car or turn up the temperature on the air conditioner or get water-saving fixtures for my bathroom? As environmentalism has become more complex, with potentially far-reaching impacts, it seems to be outpacing our individual understanding of the basic issues. A fresh view of modern environmentalism, Fundamentals of Practical Environmentalism challenges readers to integrate concern for the environment with the necessities of daily living. This book introduces practical environmentalism as a new approach to sustainable environmental progress. It presents a four-part framework that includes environmental degradation, resource conservation, economic progress, and personal benefit as the four pillars to address when attempting to act on behalf of the environment. The book consists of three main sections. Looking at historical and ethical perspectives, the first section examines the theoretical basis for practical environmentalism. The second section explains each of the four pillars in detail and demonstrates how to combine them into a holistic metric that guides environmental actions. The final section presents a number of case studies that run the gamut from small personal choices to the biggest and most contentious environmental dilemmas of the day. It shows how practical environmentalism via the four pillars can lead individuals toward better environmental decisions and an improved chance for true environmental progress. This timely book will be of use to activists, policymakers, researchers, resource managers, government agencies, and students alike, as well as anyone confronted with environmental choices in their daily lives.
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• Preface-- Developments in Applying Biotechnology Tools in Environmental Engineering-- Energy Master Planning: The Case of New Jersey-- Removal of Hazardous Materials from Aqueous Waste Streams Using Biomass & Enzymes With Reference to Environmental Control: Review-- Integrating Environmental Strategies into Industrial Production & Sustainable Development-- Studying Motor Development: A Biological & Environmental Perspective-- Phyto-Bioremediation of Polluted Marine Sediments: The Need of a Bio-Physical Approach-- Examination of University Students' Attitudes towards Environmental Problems: A Turkish Example-- Influence of Forest Disturbance on Water Discharge-- Are Environmental Factors Capitalized into the Nominal Median Price of Single-Family Homes?-- The Demographic Dimension of Climate Change-- Index.
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Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. This book puts forward some key strategies for promoting Cleaner Production in China, for instance, integrating CP into sustainability strategies, technology innovations and industrial ecology. Furthermore, the authors examine the Energy Masting Planning, a comprehensive plan that addresses energy supply and consumption through 2020. The plan includes energy efficiency, renewable energy and infrastructure and land use policies and emphasises both the benefits and the limits of the approach. Furthermore, removal of toxic and heavy metal contaminants from aqueous environments is one of the most important environmental issues to face the world. In this book, aerobic degradation through bioaccumulation by bacteria and microalgae and enzyme-catalysed reduction-based remediation of toxicants from waste waters are discussed. Other chapters in this book examine the attitudes of university students towards the environment and environmental problems, the influence on the causes of forest decline and an analysis of specific factors that influence the nominal median price of single-family homes across states, with a particular emphasis placed on the capitalisation of environmental factors such as environmental pollution in the form of toxic chemical releases.
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• Introduction to environmental movements
• Forest movements: environmental movements in the United Utates of America
• Movements against mining: environmental movements in the Philippines
• Wilderness movements: environmental movements in Australia
• Anti-roads movements: environmental movements in Britain
• River movements: environmental movements in India
• Anti-nuclear movements: environmental movements in the Germany
• Conclusions to environmental movements.

One of the most profound changes in human conciousness over the last fifty years is the realisation that nature is not an inexhaustable resource that we can plunder indefinately. The global reach of this book reflects the character of contemporary environmentalism.
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• Introduction'
• 1. How Ecology has Changes
• 2. International Trade and Environment: Towards Integrative Responsibility
• 3. Social Movements as Problematic Agents of Global Environmental Change
• 4. Global Citizens: Campaigning for Environmental Solutions
• 5. Global Networks and Local Societies: Cities in the Information Age
• 6. Cities, People, Planet
• 7. Global Sustainable Development
• 8. Fragmenting Cosmic Connections: Converting Nature into Commodity
• 9. The 'Wild', the Market and the Native: Indigenous People Face New Forms of Global Colonization.
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Over the past two decades there has been a growing attention to environmental matters in both scientific research and public interest. Global concerns have arisen particularly surrounding global warming, the emission of toxic chemicals, threats to biodiversity, radioactivity and the depletion of the world's resources such as fisheries and forest cover. The expansion of environmental interests is evident in numerous ways. These include the rise in the number of environment-focused grass-root and non-government organizations, the proliferation of official environmental agencies at national levels, and the growth of 'green' consumerism. These examples demonstrate a set of ways in which a global 'consciousness of connections' is taking form. Scientists, policy-makers, and the general public have become increasingly aware of the connections between environmental domains, and how damage or depletion in one affects numerous others. Yet another kind of developing 'consciousness of connections' involves the evolving links between individuals, groups and organizations concerned with environmental issues around the world. They are ever more conscious of each other, are creating coalitions for effective public campaigns, and are increasingly gaining the ear of national and international policy-makers. This volume presents the views of a number of leading figures concerning the nature of environmental consciousness and the emergence of connections linking globalization (processes of intensifying social, political and economic networks), globalism (our sense of the world as a whole), specific environments (such as rainforests or cities), and environmentalism (expressed in the activities of social movement organizations).
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• Introduction: The Roots of Environmental Consciousness: Popular tradition and personal experience / Stephen Hussey and Paul Thompson
• 1. The English, The Trees, the Wild and the Green: Two millennia of mythological metamorphoses / Paul Thompson
• 2. Animals, Children and Peasants in Tuscany: A note on the San Gersole archive / Giovanni Contini
• 3. Narrating Nature: Perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories / Daniela Koleva
• 4. When the Water Comes: Memories of survival after the 1953 flood / Selma Leydesdorff
• 5. 'Our Land is our Only Wealth': Changing relationships with the environment / Olivia Bennett
• 6. 'Using Community Memory Against the Onslaught of Development: A case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas / Jaclyn Jeffrey
• 7. Signs of Things to Come: Metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yucatecan community / David W. Forrest
• 8. The Environmental Movement in Kazakhstan: Ecology, democracy and nationalism / Timothy Edmunds
• 9. Paths to Ecofeminist Activism: Life stories from the north-east of England / Niamh Moore
• 10. Pathways to the Amazon: British campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest / Andrea Zhouri
• Reviews. 'Not otherwise touchable somehow': ecocriticism and literature / Jeff Wallace. Archetypal history: Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory / Bill Schwarz.

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike.
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• The environment and the web of rhetoric-- topic analysis, 1-- topic analysis, 2-- environmental ethos-- constitutive figures-- figures of resolution-- environmental argument - inquiry and change.
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An introduction to the meaning and use of language specifically in terms of the study of the environment and the formulation and implementation of policy, drawing on a wide range of sources from the mass media to the specialist article.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Studying Environmental Representations
• 3. Representations in Context
• 4. The Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Legacies
• 5. Enlightenment and Romanticism
• 6. Empire, Exploitation and Control
• 7. Representing Urban Environments
• 8. Historic Cities, Future Cities
• 9. Conclusion.
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The development of the environmental movement has relied heavily upon written and visual imagery. Representing the Environment offers an introductory guide to representations of the environment found in the media, literature, art and everyday life encounters. Featuring case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, Representing the Environment provides practical guidance on how to study environmental representations from a cultural and historic perspective, and places the reader in the role of active interpreter. The book argues that studying representations provides an important lens on the development of environmental attitudes, values and decision-making.
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