Cody Ferguson

This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. This is Our Land documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups - in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.

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Produktdetails

• Nature, Society, and Culture
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565620
• ISBN-10: 0813565626
• Artikelnr.: 41748784

Autorenporträt

Ferguson, Cody

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1   Introduction: Think Local, Act Local…Think Global
2   Coal Boom on the Plains
3   The Northern Plains Resource Council during the Environmental Decade
4   Citizen Environmental Activism in the Southwest: Tucson’s Southwest
Environmental Service
5   Reining in the Smelters: The Fight For Clean Air in Southern Arizona
6   Citizen Environmental Activism in Appalachia: Save Our Cumberland
Mountains
7   Dumping on Tennessee
8   Conclusion: Participation, Perseverance, and Rethinking
Environmentalism
Bibliography
Index