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Varieties of Environmentalism - Essays North and South (Paperback)
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Varieties of Environmentalism - Essays North and South (Paperback)
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Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have
been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a
common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns
over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive
preserve of the affluent westerner: the ultimate luxury of the
consumer society. Citizens of the world's poorest countries, ran
the conventional wisdom, had nothing to gain from environmental
concerns; they were 'too poor to be green', and were attending to
the more urgent business of survival. Yet strong environmental
movements have sprung up over recent decades in some of the poorest
countries in Asia and Latin America, albeit with origins and forms
of expression quite distinct from their western counterparts. In
Varieties of Environmentalism, Guha and Matinez-Alier seek to
articulate the values and orientation of the environmentalism of
the poor, and to explore the conflicting priorities of South and
North that were so dramatically highlighted at the Rio Earth Summit
in 1992. Essays on the 'ecology of affluence' are also included,
placing ion context such uniquely western phenomena as the 'cult of
wilderness' and the environmental justice movement. Using a
combination of archival and field data,. The book presents analyses
of environmental conflicts and ideologies in four continents: North
and South America, Asia and Europe. The authors present the nature
and history of environmental movements in quite a new light, one
which clarifies the issues and the processes behind them. They also
provide reappraisals for three seminal figures, Gandhi,
Georgescu-Roegen and Mumford, whose legacy may yet contribute to a
greater cross-cultural understanding within the environmental
movements.
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